Honor Native Voices with Indigenous Lit Picks

This Monday, October 12, is Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Rather than feeding into the false narrative of Columbus Day, we're celebrating Indigenous Peoples' Day to honor the past, present, and futures of Native peoples in the United States. Pick up one of our Indigenous Lit staff picks and read along with us!

Source: Boston Public Library

Kids:

• We Are Water Protectors

• Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kulluk 

• We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell

• Hiawatha and the Peacemaker by Robbie Robertson

Juvenile and Young Adults:

• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger 

• Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith

• If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth

• I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day

• The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Fiction:

• Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

• Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

• Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

• Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

Nonfiction:

• An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz  

• Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo 

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

• As Long as Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

• Black Indians by William Loren Katz

Blog contribution by Angie Sanchez. Additional photo contribution by Shannon McCarthy. Edited by Shannon McCarthy.