American Indian/Alaska Native Resource List

American Indian/Alaska Native Resources

There is incredible richness and diversity to American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) culture and history! This list is only a very brief one, which we hope will launch you on further explorations and learning. If you would like any additional recommendations, our librarians would be happy to share more!

At the Library

Children

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids edited by Cynthia Leitch Smith (Muscogee Creek Nation)
Berry Song by Michaela Goade (Raven moiety and Kiks.ádi clan)
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe)
A Coyote Solstice Tale by Thomas King (Cherokee)
Fatty Legs: a True Story by Margaret Pokiak-Fenton (Inuvialuit)
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma)
Jim Thorpe: Original All-American by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
Keepunumuk: Weeachumun’s Thanksgiving Story by Danielle Greendeer
(Mashpee Wampanoag), Anthony Perry (Chickasaw), and Alexis C. Bunten (Aleut/Yup’ik)
Lasting Echos: an Oral History of Native American People by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories by Dan SaSuWeh Jones (Ponca Tribe)
Makoons by Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe)
Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo)
Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
Stolen Words by Melanie Florence (Cree)
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d’Alene)
The Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
When the Stars Came Home by Brittany Luby (Anishinaabe)
When We Were Alone by David Robertson (Swampy Cree)

Teens

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d’Alene)
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi)
Code Talker: a Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Lipan Apache)
Found by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis (Anishinaabe/Ojibway)
Skywalkers: Mohawk Ironworkers Build the City by David Weitzman

Adults

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott (Tuscarora)
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays (Saginaw Chippewa)
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi)
The Clockwork Dynasty: a Novel by Daniel H. Howard (Cherokee)
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline (Metis)
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer (Ojibwe)
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe) (Or, check out Louise Erdrich’s many other works at the Library!)
Oak Flat: a Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss
The Only Good Indians: a Novel by Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet)
Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects, and Recipes for Families by Michael J. Caduto & Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
Songs From This Earth on Turtle’s Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry edited by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
There There by Tommy Orange (Cheyenne/Arapaho)
This Town Sleeps: a Novel by Dennis E. Staples (Ojibwe)
The Trail of Tears by Gloria Jahoda
Winter Counts: a Novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Sicangu Lakota)

Movies

We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes

Borrow Online

Overdrive

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potowatomi) (available as audiobook or ebook)
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (available as audiobook or ebook)
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (available as audiobook)
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe) (available as audiobook or ebook)
Fry Bread: a Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole) (available as ebook)
Spirit Run by Noe Alvarez (available as ebook)
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Metis) (available as audiobook or ebook)
Empire of the Wild by Cherie Dimaline (Metis) (available as audiobook)
A Mind Spread Out On the Ground by Alicia Elliott (Tuscarora) (available as ebook)
Winter Counts: a Novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Sicangu Lakota) (available as audiobook)
Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee) (available as ebook)
This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples (Ojibwe) (available as audiobook)
Lakota America by Pekka Hamalainen (available as ebook)
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) (available as audiobook or ebook)
Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) (available as audiobook or ebook)
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through by Joy Harjo (Muscogee Creek) (available as ebook)

Hoopla

An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo (Muscogee Creek) (available as ebook)
Conflict Resolution For Holy Beings by Jo Harjo (Muscogee Creek) (available as audiobook)
Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee) (available as ebook)
Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer (Ojibwe) (available as audiobook or ebook)
God is Red by Vine Delora, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) (available as ebook)
I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day (Upper Skagit) (available as audiobook or ebook)
Lakota America by Pekka Hamalainen (available as audiobook)
A Mind Spread Out On the Ground by Alicia Elliott (Tuscarora) (available as audiobook)
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice (Potawatomi) (available as audiobook or ebook)
The Road Back to Sweetgrass by Linda LeGarde Grover (Anishinaabe) (available as audiobook)
We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (Anishinaabekwe/Metis) (available as audiobook)

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