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Native American Heritage Month Book List

November is Native American Heritage Month and in honor of this nation’s first people and their rich history, Spokane Public Library has created a booklist featuring books by Indigenous authors. Fiction and Non-fiction books are represented with poetry, fiction, botany, memoirs and history.

Fiction and Poetry

An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo

Book | eBook

The Beadworkers by Beth Piatote

Book

Feed by Tommy Pico

eBook

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

Book | Audiobook

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich

Book | eBook | Audiobook

The Removed by Brandon Hobson

Book | eBook | Audiobook

This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples

Book

There There by Tommy Orange

Book | eBook | Audiobook

Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Book | eBook | Audiobook

Winter in the Blood by James Welch

Book

Non-Fiction

As long as grass grows : the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Book

Bitterroot : a Salish memoir of transracial adoptionding Rock by Susan Devan Harness

Book

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Book | eBook | Audiobook

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Book

Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

Book | eBook | Audiobook

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

Book

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Book | eBook | Audiobook

Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes

Book

Poet Warrior: a Memoir by Joy Harjo

Book

Spirit Run: a 6,000-Mile Marathon through North America’s Stolen Land by Noé Álvarez

Book | eBook | Audiobook

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: a Memoir by Sherman Alexie

Book | eBook | Audiobook

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