Native American heritage

Tessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says it's because Kohkom spends her days sewing beautiful beads onto smoked hides. Inspired, Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beading, but first she must listen and learn about the many stories a bead holds.

Lucy Smith, a foster teen on the run, is drawn into a complex mystery involving her stolen Ojibwe heritage. Lucy must uncover the truth about her past, while also trying to clear her name and protect her loved ones.

Feeling out of place at home with her mom and stepfather and at her Jewish day school, Mia makes a secret plan to use her bat mitzvah gifts to take a bus to Oklahoma to visit her dad and find the connection to her Muscogee side she knows is just as important as her Jewish side.

Generation after generation, Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines, balancing on narrow beams and facing down terrifying heights and heartbreaking loss while building a legacy of landmarks across North America.

When a classmate is murdered during a traditional Blackfeet giveaway, Mara, Loren, Brody and Eli, the last people to see her alive, must take matters into their own hands and clear their names-- even though one of them may be the killer.

Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong, until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow.

When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up-- not on the court, not in school and not in love.

This wide-ranging STEM book, filled with simple activities and experiments, celebrates the discoveries and technological inventions of Indigenous North Americans, showing readers how to embrace the mindset of reciprocity, environmental responsibility and the interconnectedness of life.

Inside a tight-knit Anishinaabe tribe in Wisconsin's Northwoods, members of a tribal community fight amongst themselves for political power in the days leading up to an especially tense election for tribal president.

Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking.

When 13-year-old Rosemary is evacuated from WWII London to her grandmother's home in America, she uncovers a hidden family truth-- that they are Anishinaabe-- leading her to embrace her heritage, forge new bonds and find beauty in unexpected places.

In 1912, a Lutheran pastor documents the chilling confessions of Good Stab, a Blackfeet vampire seeking justice for a historical massacre, intertwining themes of revenge, survival and haunting truths on the Blackfeet reservation.

An exploration of Indigenous literature that challenges settler colonial narratives, highlights marginalized voices across genres and invites readers to imagine new worlds through stories that reclaim identity, history and ways of understanding.

Returning to her Oklahoma hometown when her sister goes missing, Syd Walker, an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, digs into the case, uncovering a string of missing Indigenous women cases going back decades and must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face.

A two-spirit, nonbinary 10-year-old, Anang sets out to make a ribbon skirt, a piece of clothing typically worn by girls in the Anishinaabe tradition, for an upcoming powwow, finding support, community and confidence along the way.

A Chickasaw woman who can't catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more.

Blends history, mythology, memoir, and reportage as it follows a man's journey to reclaim Indigenous identity and culture amid colonial erasure, exploring family, trauma and Indigenous political and environmental movements across North America.

Written in both Anishinaabemowin and English, this colorful picture book introduces children to a variety of woodland and water animals as they go about their daily activities until the sun goes down and it's time for bed.

This collection of 11 stories celebrates Indigenous people balancing traditional ways of knowing with modern pop culture.

Living in a large urban Native housing project, Ariel, whose auntie went missing, and Tomah, who has difficulty reading, find strength and hope in their connection and in their intertribal community as they learn to share the rhythms and stories they carry within themselves.

When the Elders' Tribal Center opens up their talent show to the entire community, Jo Jo puts her mind to helping her classmates identify their talents but has a hard time following the substitute teacher's new rules.

When Steph Harper was five, her mother fled an abusive husband-- with Steph and her younger sister in tow-- to Cherokee Nation.

In 2052, with the world in a constant cycle of drought and superstorm, ice and fire, Stevie, a Cherokee girl working at a Texas museum, discovers it's about to get a whole lot worse when a mysterious boy from the future arrives.

Nothing welcomes spring like a wild onion dinner! As the dirt warms and green sprouts poke up, a Cherokee girl joins her family in the hunt for green onions. Together, they pick enough to bring to a feast, which is cooked with love and shared by their community.

Uncover the stories behind the foods that have linked the natural environments, traditions and histories of Indigenous peoples across North America for millennia through more than 100 ancestral and modern recipes. The author is an Oglala Lakota chef and three-time James Beard Award winner.

This collection of interconnected stories, edited by a Muscogee author and featuring the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers, serves up laughter, love, Native pride and the world’s best frybread.

The true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender who, in 1911, became the first two Native pro baseball players to face off in a World Series, teaches important lessons about resilience, doing what you love in the face of injustice and the fight for Native American representation in sports.

On a day filled with anticipation, a young Cherokee girl bids farewell to her familiar city life and documents the changing landscape through drawings as her family moves to their ancestral land and embraces their new home.

In this introduction to a traditional Native event, count one through ten as you make your way through the day of the powwow, looking for colors, family members, jingle dresses, musical instruments and tribal citizens.

Even someone who has lived a long time can see wonderful things that they've never seen before. In this case, it's Raven's grandmother watching her young grandson celebrating the traditional round dance with a ribbon skirt of his own.

After a terrible fight with bully Matt Schroeder, Ezra becomes the prime suspect when Matt's house burns down and, while the investigation is ongoing, is sent  to stay with his grandfather in a remote part of Canada, but the Schroeders are looking for him.

As a mysterious object hurtles toward Earth, a Cherokee father, a NASA astrophysicist and a shadowy government agent each uncover pieces of an impending first contact, forcing humanity to confront what it means to meet the unknown.