Native Reading Recommendations
Native literature is something that is often missing from academic, public, and personal libraries. Native literature is just that, literature that is written by Native Americans.
There are many genres and categories of Native Literature available. Native authors write everything from Traditional/Western ecological journals, young adult novels, high fantasy novels and everything in between. We offer Native literature recommendations to put them on your reading list, and to bring them to the spotlight if they weren’t already.
House Made of Dawn
by N.Scott MomadayÂ
There There
by Tommy OrangeÂ
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
by Daniel Heath Justice
Dwellings: a spiritual history of the living world
by Linda HoganÂ
Heart Berries
by Terese Marie MailhotÂ
Bad Indians: a tribal memoir
by Deborah MirandaÂ
The Tao of Raven: an Alaska Native Memoir
by Ernestine HayesÂ
Spider Woman's Web
by Susan Hazen-Hammond
The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early AmericaÂ
by Stephen Warren
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United StatesÂ
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIÂ
by Ernestine HayesÂ
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American WestÂ
by Lauren Redniss
Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of CommunityÂ
by Brenda J. Child