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November is Native American Heritage Month Each November we celebrate the rich ancestry, cultures, traditions, and history of Native Americans and acknowledge the unique challenges and important contributions to history. The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New York. The event culminated an effort by Red Fox James, a member of the Blackfeet Nation who rode across the nation on horseback seeking approval from 24 state governments to have a day to honor American Indians. In 1990, President George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month, commonly referred to as Native American Heritage Month. We hope you enjoy these titles— specially selected by your librarian!
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Black Sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse
Release Date: 10/13/2020 NOMINATED FOR THE 2021 HUGO AWARDS AND THE 2020 NEBULA AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL. A trilogy debut inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and follows the unbalancing of the holy city of Tova amid a fateful solstice eclipse.
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The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
Release Date: 03/03/2020 WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION. A historical novel based on the life of the National Book Award-winning author’s grandfather traces the experiences of a Chippewa Council night watchman in mid-19th-century rural North Dakota who fights Congress to enforce Native American treaty rights.
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The removed : a novel
by Brandon Hobson
Release Date: 02/02/2021 A RECOMMENDED BOOK FROM USA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * Buzzfeed * Washington Post * Parade * Good Housekeeping * AARP * Kirkus * PopSugar * Alma * Woman's Day * Library Journal * Publishers Weekly * A Cherokee family takes in a remarkable foster child on the eve of the Cherokee National Holiday and anniversary of a loved one’s death. By the National Book Award-winning author of Where the Dead Sit Talking.
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When two feathers fell from the sky
by Margaret Verble
Release Date: 10/12/2021 The author, Margaret Verble, is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Her first novel, Maud's Line, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and her next novel, Cherokee America, was a New York Times Notable Book and won a WWA Spur Award. After disaster strikes during one of her shows, Two Feathers, a young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries with the help of an eclectic cast of characters.
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New Native Kitchen : Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian
by Freddie Bitsoie
Release Date: 11/16/2021 From Freddie Bitsoie, the former executive chef at Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and James Beard Award-winning author James O. Fraioli, New Native Kitchen is a celebration of Indigenous cuisine. Accompanied by original artwork by Gabriella Trujillo and offering delicious dishes like Cherrystone Clam Soup from the Northeastern Wampanoag and Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin from the Pueblo peoples, Bitsoie showcases the variety of flavor and culinary history on offer from coast to coast, providing modern interpretations of 100 recipes that have long fed this country.
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Think indigenous : Native American spirituality for a modern world
by Doug Good Feather
Release Date: 04/13/2021 With each generation, we have drifted further and further away from our ability to recognize and connect with the source of our original design. In this modern world, we spend our attention in ways that benefit the powers that be, and not ourselves or the earth. But what if we called upon the knowledge of our roots to move us forward, individually and collectively as a society? Direct descendant of Chief Sitting Bull and American Lakota spiritual leader Doug Good Feather will guide you to becoming grounded with your own indigenous roots and your innate ancestral knowing that all beings are divinely connected.
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Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land
by Toni Jensen
Release Date: 09/08/2020 Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known that in this she is not alone. As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on Indigenous women, on Indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten.
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Little big bully
by Heid E. Erdrich
Release Date: 10/06/2020 Poet, artist, filmmaker, and curator Heid E. Erdrich explores the indigenous experience through poetry in multifaceted ways-personal, familial, biological, cultural.
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As long as grass grows : the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock
by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Release Date: April 2, 2019 Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice,” Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while highlighting the important leadership of Indigenous women in this centuries-long struggle. As Long As Grass Grows gives readers an accessible history of Indigenous resistance to government and corporate incursions on their lands and offers new approaches to environmental justice activism and policy.
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A Snake Falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Release Date: 11/09/2021 Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still believes in the old stories. Oli is a cottonmouth kid, from the land of spirits and monsters. Like all cottonmouths, he's been cast from home. He's found a new one on the banks of the bottomless lake. Nina and Oli have no idea the other exists. But a catastrophic event on Earth, and a strange sickness that befalls Oli's best friend, will drive their worlds together in ways they haven't been in centuries. And there are some who will kill to keep them apart.
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Walking in two worlds
by Wab Kinew
Release Date: 09/14/2021 When Bugz, who is caught between the worlds of life on the Rez and the virtual world, meets Feng, they form an instant bond as outsiders and gamers and must both grapple with the impact of family challenges and community trauma.
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Firekeeper's daughter
by Angeline Boulley
Release Date: 03/16/2021 Treated like an outsider in both her hometown and on the Ojibwe reservation, a half-Native American science geek and star hockey player places her dreams on hold in the wake of a family tragedy. A first novel.
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Ancestor approved : intertribal stories for kids
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Release Date: 02/09/2021 A volume of interconnected stories and poems set at a Native American Dance for Mother Earth Powwow celebration in Ann Arbor, Michigan, includes contributions by such new and veteran writers as Joseph Bruchac, Dawn Quigley and Traci Sorell.
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Peacemaker
by Joseph Bruchac
Release Date: 04/06/2021 A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy.
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Sharice's big voice : a native kid becomes a congresswoman
by Sharice Davids
Release Date: 06/01/2021 This inspiring picture book autobiography tells the remarkable story of Sharice Davids, one of the first Native American women elected to Congress and the first LGBTQ congressperson to represent Kansas.
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Healer of the water monster
by Brian Young
Release Date: 05/11/2021 A debut novel inspired by Native-American culture follows the experiences of a boy whose summer at his grandmother’s reservation home is shaped by his uncle’s addictions and an encounter with a sacred being from the Navajo Creation Story.
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