Books for Native American Heritage Month
By Luis Diaz | October 6 2022 | General
A Memoir, an Archive
978-1-9848-2041-9
A daughter returns home to the Navajo reservation to retrace her mother’s life in a memoir that is both a narrative and an archive of one family’s troubled history.
$17.00 US
Apr 12, 2022
Paperback
272 Pages
One World
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Cultural Heritage
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Women
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Family > Parents
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > People & Places > Inclusive, Diverse, and Multicultural
- Social Studies > Anthropology > People and Cultures in the United States > Native American
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Native America from 1890 to the Present
978-0-399-57319-4
"Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPRA New York Times bestseller: The sweeping history--and counter-narrative--of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.
$18.00 US
Nov 05, 2019
Paperback
528 Pages
Riverhead Books
- History > United States History
- History > United States History > By Period > America in the 20th Century
- History > United States History > By Topic > History of Native Americans
- History > United States History > Survey Courses > 1865 to Present
- Social Studies > Anthropology > People and Cultures in the United States > Native American
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Life in Native America
978-0-593-20347-7
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a story of Native American resilience and reinvention, adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name.
$19.99 US
Oct 18, 2022
Hardcover
288 Pages
Viking Books for Young Readers
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Social Themes > Prejudice & Racism
- History > United States History
- History > United States History > By Period > America in the 20th Century
- History > United States History > By Topic > History of Native Americans
- History > United States History > Survey Courses > 1865 to Present
- Social Studies > Anthropology > People and Cultures in the United States > Native American
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A Novel
978-0-385-54869-4
In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree woman’s dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.
$27.00 US
Jan 10, 2023
Hardcover
272 Pages
Doubleday
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Horror > More Horror…
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Horror > Paranormal, Occult, and Supernatural
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Legends, Myths, and Fables > Native American
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > People & Places by Group > Native American & First Nations
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The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
978-0-593-37737-6
A young reader edition of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist about one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes, the Reign of Terror against the Osage people—the story behind the upcoming major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.
$10.99 US
Nov 08, 2022
Paperback
336 Pages
Yearling
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Biographies & Memoirs > Law & Crime
- English Language Arts > Genre: Nonfiction > Social Themes > Prejudice & Racism
- History > United States History > By Topic > History of Native Americans
- History > Wars, Conflicts, and Events > Holocaust & Genocides
- Social Studies > Anthropology > People and Cultures in the United States > Native American
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978-1-64129-017-3
FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION. A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s.
$16.00 US
Jun 04, 2019
Paperback
288 Pages
Soho Press
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Family > Orphans & Foster Homes
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > People & Places by Group > Native American & First Nations
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Social Themes > Coming of Age
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Social Themes > Death, Grief, and Bereavement
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Social Themes > Drugs, Alcohol, and Substance Abuse
- English Language Arts > Genre: Fiction > Social Themes > Friendship
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