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The Walrus and the Caribou
by Maika Harper
When the earth was new, words had the power to breathe life into the world. But when creating animals from breath, sometimes one does not get everything right on the first try! Based on a traditional Inuit story passed forward orally for generations in the South Baffin region of Nunavut, this book shares with young readers the origin of the caribou and the walrus--and tells of how very different these animals looked when they were first conceived.
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Can You Hear the Plants Speak?
by Nicholas Hummingbird
Calling on the legacy of his great-grandparents, an Indigenous plantsman presents this multigenerational story about how one drop of rain, one seed, one plant can renew a cycle of hope and connections—for him and for each of us.
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At Our Table
by Patrick Hulse
Celebrating sharing, community, family, food and respect for America's first inhabitants, this lyrical, colorful book shows the countless ways we give to others on Thanksgiving, from preparing food to honoring farmers and Native communities to creating memories with those we love.
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When the Stars Came Home
by Brittany Luby
Moving to the city with his family, Ojiig misses everything they left behind, including the sparkling night sky, until his parents give him a special quilt stitched through with family stories that capture who he is and where he came from.
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What Your Ribbon Skirt Means to Me: Deb Haaland's Historic Inauguration
by Alexis C. Bunten
On March 18, 2021, Pia and the other children at the Indigenous community center were filled with Native pride as they watched Secretary Deb Haaland in her ribbon skirt at the White House becoming the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.
This book is shelved in the Easy Non-fiction section of the library.
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Powwow Day
by Traci Sorell
Unable to dance at the powwow this year due to illness, River feels isolated and alone until she discovers the healing power of community, in this uplifting, contemporary Native American story.
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Still this Love Goes On
by Buffy Sainte-Marie
This tribute to Indigenous communities everywhere brings to life an Academy Award-winning Cree icons song of the same name. Breathtaking illustrations from celebrated Cree-Métis artist Julie Flett combine with Sainte-Marie's vivid lyrics to craft a remarkable piece of art, combining meaningful lyrics with breathtaking illustrations.
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Berry Song
by Michaela Goade
As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.
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We Sang You Home
by Richard Van Camp
A couple celebrates and welcomes their baby into the world.
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Keepunumuk: Weeãchumun's Thanksgiving Story
by Danielle Greendeer
Told in a Native tradition, this Wampanoag story of Weeâchumun (corn) and the first Thanksgiving shows how the Native people, who already lived on the land where the pilgrims settled, helped the pilgrims survive their first winter.
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On a Wing and a Tear
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Close friends Melanie (Muscogee-Odawa) and Ray (Cherokee-Seminole) join Grampa Charlie Halfmoon on a road trip from Chicago to Macon, Georgia, to bring Great-Grandfather Bat, a living legend, to a historic game, facing adventure, danger and a hair-raising mystery along the way.
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Blue Stars
by Kekla Magoon
When cousins Riley, who has a way with people, and Maya, a tech wizard, move in with their activist grandma, they get off to a rocky start until they join forces as superheroes to stop their school culture from being threatened by money, power and lies.
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Two Tribes
by Emily Bowen Cohen
Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan to use the gifts from her bat mitzvah to take a bus to Oklahoma--without telling her mom--to visit her dad and find the connection to her Muscogee side she knows is just as important as her Jewish side.
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We Still Belong
by Christine Day
Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.
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Who was Jim Thorpe?
by James Buckley
A biography of Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, focusing on how his boyhood education set the stage for his athletic achievements which gained him international fame and Olympic gold medals. This series appeals to reluctant readers as well as middle readers in general.
This book is shelved in the Juvenile Non-fiction section of the library.
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Fancy Pants
by Dawn Quigley
In this second book in the Jo Jo Makoons series, written by an American Indian Youth Literature Honor winning author and illustrated by a Wolastoqey artist, irrepressible first-grader Jo Jo is determined to learn how to be fancy before her aunt's wedding, with her own particular flair.
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Wilma Mankiller
by Traci Sorell
Shows how Wilma Mankiller dedicated her life to helping Native Nations and their citizens reclaim their rights, becoming the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, and lists ways readers can follow in her footsteps to make a difference.
This book is shelved in the Juvenile Non-fiction section of the library.
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Sky Wolf's Call: The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge
by Eldon Yellowhorn
In Sky Wolf's Call, award-winning author team of Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger reveal how Indigenous knowledge comes from centuries of practices, experiences, and ideas gathered by people who have a long history with the natural world. Indigenous knowledge is explored through the use of fire and water, the acquisition of food, the study of astronomy, and healing practices.
This book is shelved in the Juvenile Non-fiction section of the library.
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The Sea In Winter
by Christine Day
After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blended family's midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up.
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Healer of the Water Monster
by Brian Young
When Nathan goes to visit his grandma, Nali, at her mobile summer home on the Navajo reservation, he knows he's in for a pretty uneventful summer. Still, he loves spending time with his uncle Jet, though it's clear when Jet arrives that he brings his problems with him. One night Nathan finds someone extraordinary: a Holy Being from the Navajo Creation Story--a Water Monster--in need of help. With the help of other Navajo Holy Beings, Nathan is determined to save the Water Monster, and to support Uncle Jet in healing from his own pain.
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Find Her
by Ginger Reno
Twelve-year-old Wren fights to find her missing Cherokee mother, while also navigating a chilling town mystery, a new friendship, and a family in need of healing.
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Looking for Smoke
by K.A. Cobell
When a classmate is murdered during a traditional Blackfeet giveaway, Mara, Loren, Brody and Eli, the last people to see her alive, must take matters into their own hands and clear their names—even though one of them may be the killer.
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The Unfinished
by Cheryl Issacs
With the black water from a strange pond stalking her every move, Avery must connect to her Indigenous culture to save both her best friend—and longtime crush—and the town when people there begin disappearing, but is forced to make an impossible choice.
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Warrior Girl Unearthed
by Angeline Boulley
With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance.
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The Storyteller
by Brandon Hobson
To discover what happened to his mother, one of many Native women who've mysteriously gone missing, anxiety-riddled Ziggy, his sister Moon, and his friends Alice and Corso set out on a mind-bending adventure where he learns the lessons of the Cherokee storytellers.
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Man Made Monsters
by Andrea L. Rogers
Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across centuries as they encounter predators of all kinds.
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The Star that Always Stays
by Anna Rose Johnson
In 1914, Norvia moves from the country to the city, where her mother forces her to pretend she's not Native American, and when faced with numerous changes and the looming threat of world war, Norvia must find the courage to reveal who she truly is.
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The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls
by James Bird
After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a boot camp at the Objibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance.
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A Snake Falls to Earth
by Darcie Little Badger
Fifteen-year-olds Nina and Oli come from different words--she is a Lipan Apache living in Texas and he is a cottonmouth from the Reflecting World--but their lives intersect when Oli journeys to Earth to find a cure for his ailing friend and they end up helping each other save their families.
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