Native Literature

Native Literature

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

Heart Berries

by Terese Marie Mailhot 

Bad Indians: a tribal memoir

by Deborah Miranda 

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