Helen Hall Library Guides: Celebrating Cultural Heritage: Native American Heritage Month

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Cherie Dimaline

Métis author (1975-)

Notable works: The Marrow Thieves (2017), VenCo (2023)

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Louise Erdrich

Ojibwe novelist & poet (1954-)

Notable works: The Plague of Doves (2008), The Night Watchman (2020)

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Joy Harjo

Muscogee author & former US Poet Laureate (1951-)

Notable works: Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years (2020)

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Brandon Hobson

Cherokee novelist

Notable works: The Removed (2021), Where the Dead Sit Talking (2018)

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Stephen Graham Jones

Blackfoot author (1972-)

Notable works: My Heart is a Chainsaw (2021), The Only Good Indians (2020)

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Tommy Pico

Kumeyaay Nation poet & podcast host (1983-)

Notable works: Junk (2018), Feed (2019)

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Margaret Verble

Cherokee novelist

Notable works: Cherokee America (2019), Maud's Line (2015)

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Richard Wagamese

Ojibwe author (1955-2017)

Notable works: Walking the Ojibwe Path: A Memoir in Letters to Joshua (2002)

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Jesmyn Ward

Choctaw author & professor (1977-)

Notable works: Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017), Let Us Descend (2023)

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Daniel H. Wilson

Cherokee novelist & robotics engineer (1978-)

Notable works: Robopocalypse (2011)

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A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt F BELCOURT	Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle F CLAPSADDLE	VenCo by Cherie Dimaline F DIMALINE	The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich F ERDRICH	The Sentence by Louise Erdrich F ERDRICH available in other formats:

Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine F FAJARDO-ANSTINE	Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford F FORD available in other formats:	The Last Karankawas by Kimberly Garza F GARZA	The Removed by Brandon Hobson F HOBSON available in other formats:	People of the Whale by Linda Hogan F HOGAN

Bad Cree by Jessica Johns F JOHNS	The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones F JONES available in other formats:	Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina F MEDINA	There There by Tommy Orange F ORANGE available in other formats:	Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange F ORANGE available in other formats:

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters F PETERS available in other formats:	Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse F ROANHORSE	Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse F ROANHORSE	Cherokee America by Margaret Verble F VERBLE	Stealing by Margaret Verble F VERBLE

White Horse by Erika T. Wurth F WURTH	Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah LT-F HOKEAH	Sinister Graves by Marcie R. Rendon M RENDON available in other formats:	A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair SF BLAIR available in other formats:	The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson SF WILSON

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Lakota Woman by Mary Brave Bird BIO BRAVE BIRD	Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot BIO MAILHOT available in other formats:	Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe by Kate Buford BIO THORPE	The Sacred Tree: Reflections on Native American Spirituality by Judie Bopp 299.7 S123 2004	Native American Mythology by Harltey Burr Alexander 299.7113 A374n 2005

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 305.897 K499b 2020 available in other formats:	Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native American and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt 323.1197073 S2579u 2020	Native Harvests by E. Barrie Kavasch 641.3 K21n	Native North American Art by Janet Catherine Berlo 704.0397 B515n 1991	Native American Modernism: Art from North America by Peter Bolz 704.0397007443155 B6949n 2012

Totems to Turquoise by Kari Chalker 739.2708997 T7175 2004	Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos 808.066 F289b 2022	When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through edited by Joy Harjo 811.0080897 W5671w 2020	Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light by Joy Harjo 811.54 H2822w 2023	Junk by Tommy Pico 811.6 P598j 2018

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets 811.6 S6272e 2019	New Poets of Native Nations edited by Heid E. Erdrich 811.6080897 N53211n 2018	Walking the Ojibwe Path: A Memoir in Letters to Joshua by Richard Wagamese 813.6 W129w 2023	Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah A. Miranda 970.00497 M672b 2013	The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer available in other formats:

Notable Native People by Adrienne Keene 970.00922 K265n 2021	How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America by Sara Sinclair 971.00497 H8471h 2020	Our Stories Remember: American Indian, History, Culture, and Values through Storytelling by Joseph Bruchac 973.0497 B887o 2003	Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne 978.004974572092 P238gw 2010 available in other formats:	The Exiles (1961) dir. Kent Mackenzie DVDE 305.897 E9637 2009

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Barking Water (2009) dir. Sterlin Harjo DVD BARKING Stream this movie on	Beans (2020) dir. Tracey Deer DVD BEANS	Big Eden (2000) dir. Thomas Bezucha DVD BIG Stream this movie on	Edge of America (2003) dir. Chris Eyre DVD EDGE	Older Than America (2008) dir. Georgina Lightning DVD OLDER

The Rider (2017) dir. Chloé Zhao DVD RIDER	Smoke Signals (1998) dir. Chris Eyre DVD SMOKE	Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2016) dir. Chloé Zhao DVD SONGS Stream this movie on

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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline available as:	Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine available as:	Never Whistle at Night edited by Shane Hawk available as:	Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez available as:	Traplines by Eden Robinson available as:

Maud's Line by Margaret Verble available as:	Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward available as:	Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward available as:	Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden available as:	Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson available as: