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.
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House Made of Dawn
by N.Scott Momaday
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There There
by Tommy Orange
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Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
by Daniel Heath Justice
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Dwellings: a spiritual history of the living world
by Linda Hogan
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Heart Berries
by Terese Marie Mailhot
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Bad Indians: a tribal memoir
by Deborah Miranda
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The Tao of Raven: an Alaska Native Memoir
by Ernestine Hayes
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Spider Woman's Web
by Susan Hazen-Hammond
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The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America
by Stephen Warren
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by Ernestine Hayes
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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
by Lauren Redniss
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Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
by Brenda J. Child