Native American Heritage Month

Blood Struggle explores how indigenous tribes took their hard-earned sovereignty and put it to work for Native peoples and the perpetuation of culture.

A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence.

The author speaks for his people in this witty confutation of almost everything the white man "knows" about Native Americans.

The stories and legends of the Lushootseed-speaking people of Puget Sound. Characters like Wolf, Salmon, Raven, and Coyote populate humorous stories that reflect foibles of human nature, convey serious moral instruction, and detail the unfortunate, even disastrous consequences of breaking taboos.

Guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples and other vulnerable populations.

This account of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is an intimate story of a resilient people who because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence, has spawned a new generation of resistance.

The story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.

"This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century ... [and shows] an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations.

Through case studies, anecdotes, stories, and biographies, this book emphasizes Native Americans' efforts to preserve the integrity and viability of their dynamic and self-directed societies and cultures in New England.

"In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road."

This book looks at sustainability from the Native Americans' perspective. It introduces ideas on how to link nature and society to make sustainable choices, and how to change destructive behaviors and to integrate indigenous culture into thinking and decision processes.

"An examination of the pre-contact oral tradition of the Native American Cheyenne Nation, from a Cheyenne perspective."

An anthology of essays by Native writers on the formal art of basket weaving. Their ambitious, creative, and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery, shape-changing possibilities of Native stories.

"A multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about violence and recovery, hope and loss, identity and power, dislocation and communion, and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people."

"... this is the tragic and shocking story (with an unexpected upbeat ending) of two elderly women who are abandoned by a migrating band facing starvation because of unusually harsh Arctic weather and a shortage of fish and game."

A history of the forced migration of 80,000 Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s.

Kizzia’s account of his travels off the Alaska road system has endured with a sterling reputation for its thoughtful, poetic, unflinching engagement with the complexity of Alaska’s rural communities.

This first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology contains the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations.

A Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s.

Although highly regarded as a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and drama, N. Scott Momaday considers himself primarily a poet. This first book of his poems to be published in over a decade, Again the Far Morning comprises a varied selection of new work along with the best from his four earlier books of poems: Angle of Geese (1974), The Gourd Dancer (1976), In the Presence of the Sun (1992), and In the Bear's House (1999).

Prominent native writers, artists, journalists, activists, lawyers, and museum administrators each have made remarkable contributions towards the transformation of old stereotypes, the fight against discrimination, and the sharing of their heritage.

French explorers and colonists in the sixteenth century noticed that Indigenous peoples ... used signs to communicate. The French quickly embraced the nonverbal as a means to overcome cultural and language barriers.

Audiobook of Flight, a hilarious and tragic story of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a search for his true identity.

An exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada... N. Scott Momaday, and others are included in this collection.

Autobiographies of thirteen Native American undergraduates and graduates of Dartmouth College. Issues include native identity, adjustment to the college environment, cultural and familial influences, and academic and career aspirations.

Told in vibrant detail, the book conveys the importance of communalism as a value system present in all human groups and one at the center of Indigenous survival.

Moore examines the works of five well-known Native American writers and their efforts, beginning in the colonial period, to redefine an “America” and “American identity” that includes Native Americans.

A Sioux Toa told in prose by Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939), who is considered the first Native American author to write American history from the Native American point of view.