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Featured Native American heritage picks

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Whether you're celebrating Native American Heritage Month or just looking for great books, movies and music, check out these staff-selected titles for all ages.

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Cover of What's in a Bead?
Kelsey Borgford
What's in a Bead?
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2024
PICTURE BOOK Borgford Kelsey
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.

Lexile level

730L
Cover of Sisters in the Wind
Angeline Boulley
Sisters in the Wind
2025
T FICTION Boulley, Angeline
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.
Stephanie B loved this! Find out why »
Cover of To Walk the Sky
Patricia Morris Buckley
To Walk the Sky
2025
J 624.0889 BUC
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.
Cover of Looking for Smoke
K. A. Cobell
Looking for Smoke
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2024
T FICTION Cobell, K. A.
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.
Cover of We Still Belong
Christine Day
We Still Belong
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2023
J FICTION Day, Christine
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.

Lexile level

770L
Cover of Rez Ball
Byron Graves
Rez Ball
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2023
T FICTION Graves, Byron
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.
Cover of Big Chief
Jon Hickey
Big Chief
2025
FICTION Hickey, Jon
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.
Cover of The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry
Anna Rose Johnson
The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry
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2024
J FICTION Johnson Anna
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.
Cover of The Blossoming Summer
Anna Rose Johnson
The Blossoming Summer
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2025
J FICTION Johnson, Anna
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.
Cover of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
2025
FICTION Jones, Stephen
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.
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Cover of Bad Indians Book Club
Patty Krawec and Omar El Akkad
Bad Indians Book Club
2025
810.9897 KRA
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.
Cover of Blood Sisters
Vanessa Lillie
Blood Sisters
2023
FICTION Lillie, Vanessa
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.
Sarah C loved this! Find out why »
Cover of The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel
Cameron Mukwa
The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel
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2024
J GRAPHIC Mukwa, Cameron
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.
Cover of The Truth According to Ember
Danica Nava
The Truth According to Ember
2024
FICTION Nava, Danica
A Chickasaw woman who can't catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more.
Cover of We Survived the Night
Julian Brave Noisecat
We Survived the Night
2025
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.
Cover of Boozhoo! = Hello!
Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley
Boozhoo! = Hello!
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2024
J 497.333 PAW
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.
Cover of Indiginerds
Alina Pete
Indiginerds
2024
T GRAPHIC Indiginerds
This collection of 11 stories celebrates Indigenous people balancing traditional ways of knowing with modern pop culture.
Cover of Red Bird Danced
Dawn Quigley
Red Bird Danced
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2024
J FICTION Quigley, Dawn
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.
Cover of Rule School
Dawn Quigley
Rule School
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2024
J FICTION Quigley, Dawn
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.
Cover of To the Moon and Back
Eliana Ramage
To the Moon and Back
2025
FICTION Ramage, Eliana
When Steph Harper was five, her mother fled an abusive husband-- with Steph and her younger sister in tow-- to Cherokee Nation.
Cover of The Art Thieves
Andrea L. Rogers
The Art Thieves
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2024
T FICTION Rogers, Andrea
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.
Cover of When We Gather = Ostadahlisiha
Andrea L. Rogers
When We Gather = Ostadahlisiha
2024
PICTURE BOOK Rogers, Andrea
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.
Cover of Turtle Island
Sean Sherman, Kate Nelson and Kristin Donnelly
Turtle Island
2025
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.
Cover of Legendary Frybread Drive-In
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Legendary Frybread Drive-In
2025
T FICTION Legendary
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.
Cover of Contenders
Traci Sorell
Contenders
2023
J 796.357 SOR
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.
Cover of Being Home
Traci Sorell
Being Home
2024
PICTURE BOOK Sorell, Traci
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.

Lexile level

450L
Cover of On Powwow Day
Traci Sorell
On Powwow Day
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2024
BOARD BOOK Sorell, Traci
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.
Cover of Raven's Ribbons
Tasha Spillett
Raven's Ribbons
2025
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.
Cover of Where Wolves Don't Die
Anton Treuer
Where Wolves Don't Die
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2024
T FICTION Treuer, Anton
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.
Cover of Hole in the Sky
Daniel H. Wilson
Hole in the Sky
2025
FICTION Wilson, Daniel
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.