American Indian/Alaska Native Resources

American Indian/Alaska Native Resources

There is incredible richness and diversity to American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) culture and history! This list is only a very brief one, which we hope will launch you on further explorations and learning. If you would like any additional recommendations, librarian Tasha Gross will be happy to share more! 

At the Library

Children

Teens

  • Found by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
    • Makoons by Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe)

Adults

Movies

Borrow Online

Overdrive

    • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potowatomi) (available as audiobook or ebook)
    • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (available as audiobook or ebook)
    • House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (available as ebook)
    • The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe) (available as audiobook or ebook)
    • Fry Bread: a Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole) (available as ebook)
  • Spirit Run by Noe Alvarez (available as ebook)
  • The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Metis) (available as ebook)
  • Empire of the Wild by Cherie Dimaline (Metis) (available as ebook)
  • A Mind Spread Out On the Ground by Alicia Elliott (Tuscarora) (available as ebook)
  • Winter Counts: a Novel by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Sicangu Lakota) (available as audiobook or ebook)
  • Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee) (available as ebook)
  • This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples (Ojibwe) (available as audiobook)
  • Lakota America by Pekka Hamalainen (available as ebook)
  • Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) (available as ebook)
  • Trial of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) (available as ebook)
  • Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) (available as ebook)
  • Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo) (available as ebook)
  • Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Mojave) (available as ebook)
  • When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through by Joy Harjo (Muscogee Creek) (available as ebook)

Hoopla

    • Everything You Wanted To Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask by Anton Treuer (Ojibwe) (available as audiobook or ebook
    • God is Red by Vine Delora,  Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) (available as ebook)
    • We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (Anishinaabekwe/Metis) (available as audiobook)
  • An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo (Muscogee Creek) (available as ebook)
  • Conflict Resolution For Holy Beings by Jo Harjo (Muscogee Creek) (available as audiobook)
  • A Mind Spread Out On the Ground by Alicia Elliott (Tuscarora) (available as audiobook)
  • Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God by Kaitlin B. Curtice (Potawatomi) (available as audiobook or ebook)
  • Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford (Cherokee) (available as ebook)
  • This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples (Ojibwe) (available as audiobook)
  • Lakota America by Pekka Hamalainen (available as audiobook)

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