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• A Minor Chorus

  a Novel

  Belcourt, Billy-Ray,

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  A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief.

• Tsimshian Eagle

  a Culture Bearer's Journey

  Boxley, David A., 1952-

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  The author shares how he left a teaching job to become a full-time Tsimshian artist, helping usher in a revitalization of Tsimshian arts and culture.

• So, How Long Have You Been Native?

  Life as An Alaska Native Tour Guide

  Bunten, Alexis

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  An informative read about a Native Alaskan working for a guide tour outside of her tribe, and how it impacts Native Alaskans businesses, colonization, and cultural traditional ways.

• This Indian Kid

  a Native American Memoir

  Chuculate, Eddie, 1978-

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  A moving account of the author's childhood growing up in Oklahoma.

• Looking for Smoke

  Cobell, K. A.,

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  A girl is found dead during a ceremony on a Blackfeet reservation. Four teens begin to investigate. The murder leads them to an the unsolved disappearance of another girl.

• Old School Indian

  a Novel

  Curtis, Aaron John,

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  When Miami-based bookseller Abe Jacobs gets a frightening medical diagnosis, he flees back to his Mohawk reservation roots to see his healer Uncle. An emotional tale of healing, wrapped in poetry, sorrow and humor.

• We Still Belong

  Day, Christine, 1993-

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  Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong-until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.

• Indigenous Cultures Today

  Protecting Native Families and Practicing Cultural Traditions

  DeGroat, Cayla Bellanger,

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  Learn how advocates for Native American rights are protecting their families and educating children about their cultural traditions—including languages, religions, ceremonies, and values.

• The Mighty Red

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  In the red river valley of North Dakota a family deals with environmental turbulence and the 2008 economic crisis.

• Birding While Indian

  a Mixed-blood Memoir

  Gannon, Thomas C.,

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  Torn between his mixed white and Lakota Sioux heritage, Gannon tells the story of the last 50 years of his life through the birds he's observed and revered on a lifetime of walks, hikes and outside time.

• Berry Song

  Goade, Michaela,

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  As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.

• Too Much

  My Great Big Native Family

  Goodluck, Laurel,

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  Sometimes Russell feels like his big Native family is too noisy, too big, and just too much, but when he needs them most, his great big, loving family knows how to be just enough.

• Rock Your Mocs

  Goodluck, Laurel,

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  A celebration of the joy and power of wearing moccasins and the Native pride that comes with them.

• Rez Ball

  Graves, Byron,

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  When Jaxon is asked to play on the reservation basketball team, he sees it as a way to represent his Ojibwe community.

• The Tao of Raven

  An Alaska Native Memoir

  Hayes, Ernestine, 1945-

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  Lyrically written in both memoir and fiction, the author writes about the trauma and colonialism of Natives Alaskans while also speaking to younger generations as her older self about the resilience and the complications of her community.

• The Blossoming Summer

  Johnson, Anna Rose,

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  A young girl leaves WWII London and discovers her Anishinaabe roots in America.

• Stealing Little Moon

  the Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools

  Jones, Dan SaSuWeh, 1951-

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  When Little Moon was taken from her family in 1885, she was sent to a school meant to erase Native culture. Years later her grandson begins to research and share the truth of what happened at the school.

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  A Blackfeet warrior called Good Stab relates his experiences and the atrocities he's witnessed during his long, extended life. A unique vampire tale as told by a master of the horror genre.

• Rose Quartz

  Poems

  LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu,

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  Gathering scraps from fairy-tales and newly minted personal rituals, upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian tribe member LaPointe reveals the laborious process of reassembling herself.

• Thinning Blood

  a Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

  Myers, Leah (Writer),

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  Through the Pacific Northwest tradition of totem storytelling, Leah Myers tells the story of the last four generations of her family. Due to blood quantum laws, Myers will be the last family member to be part of the S'Klallam Tribe.