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• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

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  As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. Kimmerer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Break

  Vermette, Katherena

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  When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble, she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected with the victim tell…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Custer Died for Your Sins

  An Indian Manifesto

  Vine Deloria Jr.

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  Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr. shares his thoughts about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists in a collection of 11 eye-opening essays infused with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Fear the Reaper

  Jones, Stephen Graham

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  Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Elatsoe

  Darcie Little Badger

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  A Texas teen comes face-to-face with a cousin's ghost and vows to unmask the murderer. Elatsoe, Ellie for short, lives in an alternate contemporary America shaped by the ancestral magics and knowledge of its indigenous and immigrant…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Firekeeper's Daughter

  Boulley, Angeline

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  Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Native America from 1890 to the Present

  Treuer, David

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  In "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee," Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  A Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig

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  With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Night of the Living Rez

  Talty, Morgan

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  Set in a Native community in Maine, "Night of the Living Rez" is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the 21st century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In 12 striking,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Watchman

  Erdrich, Louise

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  It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our History Is the Future

  Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

  Estes, Nick

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  Tells the story of how over two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming "Water is life." Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Paint

  The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  Lapointe, Sasha

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  Sasha LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha. With little more to guide her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sanaaq

  Nappaaluk, Mitiarjuk

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  This tells an intimate story of an Inuit family negotiating the changes brought into their community by the coming of the qallunaat, the white people, in the mid-nineteenth century.

• There There

  A novel

  Orange, Tommy

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  As we learn the reasons that each person is attending the Big Oakland Powwow—some generous, some fearful, some joyful, some violent—momentum builds toward a shocking yet inevitable conclusion that changes everything. Jacquie Red Feather is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thinning Blood

  A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

  Myers, Leah

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  Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Indian Kid: A Native American Memoir (Scholastic Focus)

  Chuculate, Eddie

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  Growing up impoverished and shuttled between different households, it seemed life was bound to take a certain path for Eddie Chuculate. Despite the challenges he faced, his upbringing was rich with love and bountiful lessons from his Creek…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• To Shape a Dragon's Breath

  Blackgoose, Moniquill

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  The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations until 15-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among…Read moreRead more of this annotation