November is Native American Heritage Month, and we’ve got books and authors for you to celebrate with! First up, we have a list of some new titles by indigenous authors. then, there’s a list of authors who write fiction. Revisit an old favorite or try something new! Fiction not your thing? Keep scrolling to find a list of nonfiction. All links will take you to the catalog so that you can easily request it. Just want to browse? Why, this is a book display in the library so you can do just that! We’ll see you soon.
New Books
The Bears Ears: A Human History of America’s Most Endangered Wilderness by David Roberts
Girlhood: Essays by Melissa Febos
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
The Radiant Lives of Animals by Linda Hogan
The Removed by Brandon Hobson
Native Authors of Fiction
Nonfiction
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah A. Miranda
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh by Gordon M. Sayre
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab by Steve Inskeep
Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony edited by Allan Richard Chavkin
A Map to the Next World by Joy Harjo
New Poets of Native Nations edited by Heid E. Erdrich
The Native Americans: an illustrated history
Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler
Rez Life by David Treuer
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
We had a little real estate problem: the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy by Kliph Nesteroff
