Books for Native American Heritage Month
Learn about Native American history and hear the voices of Native Americans.
November 2, 2023
Looking for more? Check out last year’s list: 2022
Non-Fiction
The Rediscovery Of America
Native Peoples And The Unmaking Of Us History
Ned Blackhawk
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
Fiction
Venco
Cherie Dimaline
An incredibly inventive, highly anticipated second adult novel–with witches, magic, and a road trip through America–from Cherie Dimaline, the critically acclaimed author of Empire of Wild.
Bad Cree
Jessica Johns
A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister’s untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow’s head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers.
Don’t Fear The Reaper
Stephen Graham Jones
Returning to rural Proofrock after being released from prison, Jade Daniels runs afoul of a convicted serial killer, who escapes from a prison transfer in a blizzard, in the second novel of the series following My Heart is a Chainsaw.
Blood Sisters
Vanessa Lillie
Returning to her Oklahoma hometown when her sister goes missing, an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker, digs into the case, uncovering a string of missing Indigenous women cases going back decades and must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face.
Stealing
Margaret Verble
In the 1950s, strong-willed and shrewd Kit Crockett, ripped from her home and Cherokee family and sent to a religious boarding school, she, along with the other Native students, is stripped of her heritage, force-fed Christian indoctrination and is sexually abused until she decides to fight back.
Sisters Of The Lost Nation
Nick Medina
As girls start going missing amidst strange and sinister happenings in the reservation’s casino, including her little sister, Anna Horn, an outcast struggling with her place on the rez, must confront demons old and new as she hunts for answers.
The Berry Pickers
Amanda Peters
Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine, where a family secret is finally revealed.
A Council Of Dolls
Mona Susan Power
Details the story of three women from different generations, told through the stories of the dolls they carried in 1888, 1925 and 1961 bringing to light the damage done to indigenous people through history.
Night Of The Living Rez
Morgan Talty
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty-with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight-breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future