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• Ancestor Approved

  Intertribal Stories for Kids

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  A collection of intersecting short stories set at a powwow. The stories are a celebration of friendship, heritage, and resilience.

• I Sing the Salmon Home

  Poems From Washington State

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  Former Washington Poet Laureate and Lummi tribal member Rena Priest gathers poems from more than 150 Washington poets ranging from first graders to tribal elders, all inspired by the Northwest's beloved, iconic salmon.

• The Power of Style

  How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures

  Allaire, Christian, 1992-

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  As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he looked to for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that.

• 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.

• Warrior Girl Unearthed

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  A young Anishinaabe teen investigates the disappearance of several young women who have gone missing from her tribe.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Night Watchman

  a Novel

  Erdrich, Louise,

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  Drawing on her grandfather's letters, Erdrich re-creates a shameful chapter in America's history when Congress introduced a bill to terminate the treaty rights of Native tribes, which would force assimilation and pave the way for a land…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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.

• 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.

• Bitterroot

  a Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption

  Harness, Susan Devan,

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  A memoir of a woman's experience growing up as an American Indian child adopted by a white couple. As an adult, she searches for answers to make sense of her family, her identity, and her complex past.

• 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.

• Indian Burial Ground

  Medina, Nick,

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  When Noemi's boyfriend is killed, her life is thrown into turmoil. When Noemi's Uncle Louie hears the news, he reveals that death has stalked their reservation before. Mystery with elements of mythological horror.

• Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

  Midge, Tiffany, 1965-

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  Tiffany Midge (Hunkpapa Lakota) turns to humor to comment on life, politics and identity in this razor-sharp collection of essays.

• 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.

• By the Fire We Carry

  the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

  Nagle, Rebecca,

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  The decades-long battle for Indigenous land rights results in a surprising 2020 Supreme Court ruling in this gripping legal thriller by Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle.