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by Sherman Alexie
Fiction
Witty, tender, and fierce; in these stories, we meet the kind of native Americans we rarely see in literature–the kind who pay their bills, hold down jobs, fall in and out of love.
Book: BCCLS
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Nonfiction
An unusual mix of science and poetry, memoir and research about acknowledging and celebrating our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world, by a botanist who is also Native American.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
by Louise Erdrich
Fiction
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel based on the life of the author’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota to Washington, D.C.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
by Stephen Graham Jones
Fiction
A supernatural thriller: Four American Indian men from the Blackfoot Nation who were childhood friends find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
by Black Elk with John G. Neihardt
Nonfiction
The story of the Oglala Lakota visionary healer and his people during end of the nineteenth century offers more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time, it relates Black Elk’s visions for the future.
Book: BCCLS
by Kelli Jo Ford
Fiction
It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her ultra-Christian mother and her grandmother, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Fiction
A groundbreaking thriller featuring Virgil Wounded Horse, a vigilante on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who embarks on a dangerous mission to track down the source of a heroin influx.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
by Rebecca Roanhorse
Fiction
An epic pre-Columbian fantasy, crammed with characters, clans, different kinds of magic, told from many points of view, that begins “Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so.”
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
by Joseph Marshall III
Nonfiction
A brilliant leader of a desperate cause and a perennially fascinating figure of the American West, Crazy Horse crushed Custer’s 7th Cavalry and brought the U.S. Army to its knees.
Book: BCCLS
by Daniel H. Wilson
Fiction
In the near future, all the dazzling technology and artificial intelligence that runs our world will unite and turn against us. By a Cherokee citizen with a Ph.D. in robotics.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
by Tommy Orange
Fiction
A novel told in interlocking stories follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/OverDrive
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive
by Joy Harjo
Nonfiction
A vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life, the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate. Weaving together the voices that shaped her, Harjo tells stories of ancestors and family, the poetry and music that she first encountered as a child, the teachings of a changing earth, and the poets who paved her way.
Book: BCCLS
eBook: Libby/Overdrive
by Leslie Marmon Silko
Fiction
A young Native American, once a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, returns to the Laguna Pueblo reservation to seek the traditions and stories of his people’s past.
Book: BCCLS
Audiobook: Libby/OverDrive, hoopla
by James Welch
Fiction
Three days in the life of a 32-year-old Native American man who lives in two worlds, his mother’s home on the reservation and the dreary bars and hotels of nearby Havre and Malta, Montana, and how he finds the beginnings of a kind of personal salvation.
Book: BCCLS
