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Must Read Indigenous Fiction & Nonfiction
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Elatsoe
by Darcie Little Badger
Imagine an America very similar to our own. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples. Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry.
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Apple In The Middle
by Dawn Quigley
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Apple's name has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation a person who is red, or Indian, on the outside, but white on the inside. Apple reluctantly agrees to visit her Native American relatives on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in northern North Dakota for the first time.
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Race to the Sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse
Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monster slayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father.
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Two Roads
by Joseph Bruchac
In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
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The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie
A story about a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation who leaves his troubled school to pursue an education in an all-white farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
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The Firekeeper's Daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths.
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Occupying Alcatraz: Native American Activists Demand Change
by Alexis Burling
Discusses how in 1969, a group of daring Native American activists launched a 19-month takeover of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, seeking to highlight the poor living conditions that persisted in Native American communities throughout the country.
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Myths of the Native Americans
by Herald McKinley
Explores native American cultures and tribes through stories and myths from several indigenous tribes.
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Native American Medicine
by Tamra Orr
Discusses Native Americans use of herbs and plants to heal illness and treat injuries, and explains some of the remedies, healing rituals, and the importance of medicine men.
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What the Native Americans Wore
by Colleen Madonna Flood Williams
Discusses common clothing items of Native American tribes, and explains the cultural and religious significance of these items.
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