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