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 Momaday

There There
by Tommy Orange

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
by Daniel Heath Justice

Dwellings: a spiritual history of the living world
by Linda Hogan

Heart Berries
by Terese Marie Mailhot

Bad Indians: a tribal memoir
by Deborah Miranda

The Tao of Raven: an Alaska Native Memoir
by Ernestine Hayes

Spider Woman's Web
by Susan Hazen-Hammond

The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America
by Stephen Warren

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by Ernestine Hayes

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
by Lauren Redniss

Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
by Brenda J. Child