Our NOPL Cicero Adult Services Librarian Sue put together this list of fiction & non-fiction titles by Native American authors. Most are available to borrow with your library card through the OCPL catalog and several are non-circulating, to view in the owning library.
Stop into NOPL Cicero to see some of these titles in a display at the Service Desk.
Nonfiction
Native American Spiritualism: An Exploration of Indigenous Beliefs and Cultures by L.M. Arroyo – 299 Arr
Wisdom’s Daughters: Conversations with Women Elders of Native America written and photographed by by Steve Wall and Harvey Arden, editor – 299.7082 Wall
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles – 304.208 Miles
Sisters in Spirit: The Iroquois Influence on Early American Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner – 305.42 Wag
Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer – 305.897 Kim
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer – 305.8 Kim
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt – 323.119 Sau
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer – Winner of the John Burroughs Medal Award for Natural History Writing 588.2 Kim
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos – 808 Feb/ 808.06 Feb
The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate edited by Amy Brady and Tajja Isen – 808.849 Wor
Living Nations, Living Words an Anthology of First People’s Poetry collected and with an introduction by Joy Harjo – 811 Har
New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E. Erdrich – 811 New
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry 811.008 Har
Face by Alexie Sherman – 811.54 Ale
Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours edited by Diane Glancy and Mark Nowak – 811.54 Gla
An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo: Poems 811.54 Har
She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo 811.54 Har
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years 811.54 Har
IRL by Tommy Pico 811.6 Pico
Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets 811.6 Ske
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier 811.6 Lon
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz 811.6 Dia
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction 813 Wal
Making Love with the Land: Essays by Joshua Whitehead 814.6 Whi
Girlhood: Essays by Melissa Febos 818.603 Feb
Earth Always Endures, Native American Poems 897 Ear
And Grandma Said: Iroquois Teachings, as Passed Down Through Oral Tradition
By Tom Porter 909 Porter
Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History by Ted J. Brasser 970.1 Bra
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King 970.004 Kin
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria Jr. 973.049 Del
Haudenosaunee: Portraits of the Firekeepers, the Onondaga Nation by Toba Tucker 973.049 Tuc
Biography, Memoir
Abandon Me: A Memoir by Melissa Febos – BIO Febos
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo – BIO Harjo
Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret Life by Melissa Febos Betts – BIO Febos
Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of a Nation by Colin G. Calloway – BIO Washington
Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder’s Meditations on Hope and Courage by Steven Charleston – 976.004 Char
Local Interest
Reading the Wampum: Essays on Hodinoshoni Visual Code and Epistemological Recovery by Penelope Myrtle Kelsey – 810.989 Kel Local Interest
Neighbor to Neighbor, Nation to Nation: Readings About the Relationship of the Onondaga Nation with Central New York, USA compiled by Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation – 970.3 Nei
Entering Onondaga: Poems by Joseph Bruchac Central Library – 970.3 Local History Non-Circulating
Who Are These People Anyway? by Irving Powless – 974.7 Pow
Native American Fiction
Woman of Light by Kali-Fajardo-Anstine – FICFajardo-Anstine
Cheyenne Montana by Eddie Chuculate – FIC Chu
Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline – Teen FIC Dim
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline – FIC Dim
Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline – FIC Dim
Empire of the Wild by Cherie Dimaline – FIC Dim
The Removed by Brandon Hobson – FIC Hob
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones – FIC Jon
The Grass Dancer by Susan Power FIC Pow
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko – FIC Sil
Winter in the Blood by James Welch – FIC Welch
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday – FIC Moma
Jonny Appleseed, a novel by Joshua Whitehead – FIC Whi
This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples – FIC Sta
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden – FIC Wei
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq – FIC Tag
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson – FIC Rob
When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky by Margaret Verble – FIC Ver
Stealing by Margaret Verble – FIC Ver
Sabrina and Corina: Short Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine – FIC Fajardo-Anstine
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology – FIC Never
The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich (Fiction – OverDrive audiobook)
Children’s Nonfiction
Go Show the World by Wab Kinew – J 920 KIN
She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller, by Traci Sorell – J BIO Mankiller
Red Cloud: a Lakota story of war and surrender by S. D. Nelson – J BIO Red Cloud
Children’s Fiction
Berry Song by Michaela Goade – Children’s Picture Books – JE Goade
My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith – J Board Book Smith
Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith – Children’s Picture Books – JE Smith (4-8 yrs)
I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis – Longer Reads J E Dupuis
I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day – J FIC Day (Gr 4-7)
Makoons by Louise Erdrich – J FIC Erdrich (8-12 yrs)
