Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month! This year's theme, as stated on the Bureau of Indian Affairs website, is "Celebrating Tribal Sovereignty and Identity. Tribal sovereignty ensures that any decisions about Tribes with regard to their property and citizens are made with their participation and consent. The federal trust responsibility is a legal obligation under which the United States “has charged itself with moral obligations of the highest responsibility and trust” toward Indian tribes."


 The list below is a mix of fiction and nonfiction to written by and about Indigenous peoples to read this month!      

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter (Indigenous Studies) By Daniel Heath Justice Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781771121767
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Published: Wilfrid Laurier University Press - March 10th, 2018

A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories By Chelsea T. Hicks Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781951213541
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Published: Unnamed Press - June 21st, 2022

Kapaemahu By Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Daniel Sousa (Illustrator) Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780593530061
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Published: Kokila - June 7th, 2022

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea By Debra Magpie Earling Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9781571311450
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Published: Milkweed Editions - May 23rd, 2023

Heating the Outdoors By Marie-Andrée Gill, Kristen Renee Miller (Translated by) Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781771668149
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Published: Book*hug Press - March 7th, 2023

Elatsoe By Darcie Little Badger, Rovina Cai (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Darcie Little Badger, Rovina Cai (Illustrator)
$12.99
ISBN: 9781646142767
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Published: Levine Querido - October 31st, 2023

Making Love with the Land: Essays By Joshua Whitehead Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9781517914479
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Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press - November 15th, 2022

Sweetest Kulu (English) By Celina Kalluk, Alexandria Neonakis (Illustrator) Cover Image
$9.95
ISBN: 9781772271119
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Published: Inhabit Media - April 6th, 2016

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground By Alicia Elliott Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781612198668
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Published: Melville House - August 4th, 2020

Winter Counts: A Novel By David Heska Wanbli Weiden Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062968951
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ecco - July 6th, 2021

Rez Dogs By Joseph Bruchac Cover Image
$7.99
ISBN: 9780593326220
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Published: Dial Books - June 7th, 2022

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America By Pekka Hämäläinen Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9781324094067
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Published: Liveright - September 12th, 2023

My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy #1) By Stephen Graham Jones Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781982137649
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - March 29th, 2022

Eagle Drums By Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson, Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson (Illustrator) Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250750655
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Published: Roaring Brook Press - September 12th, 2023

Warrior Girl Unearthed By Angeline Boulley Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781250766588
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) - May 2nd, 2023

Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir By Deborah A. Miranda Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781597142014
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Published: Heyday Books - January 1st, 2013

Surviving the City: Volume 1 By Tasha Spillett, Natasha Donovan (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Tasha Spillett, Natasha Donovan (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Illustrator)
$21.95
ISBN: 9781553797562
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Published: Highwater Press - March 1st, 2019

The Berry Pickers: A Novel By Amanda Peters Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9781646221950
Published: Catapult - October 31st, 2023

A History of My Brief Body By Billy-Ray Belcourt Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9781937512934
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Two Dollar Radio - July 14th, 2020

Woman of Light: A Novel By Kali Fajardo-Anstine Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525511335
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: One World - April 18th, 2023

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The Seed Keeper By Diane Wilson Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781571311375
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Milkweed Editions - March 9th, 2021

It Was Never Going to Be Okay By Jaye Simpson Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780889713826
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Published: Nightwood Editions - April 20th, 2021

Mass Center for the Book 2023 Reading Challenge

How It Works

  1. Sign up at https://www.massbook.org/readingchallenge
  2. Choose a book that fits the monthly challenge
  3. After you read, fill out a short form to tell Mass Center for the Book all about it
  4. That's it!
    • If you read at least one book, you will be invited to a year-end celebration hosted by Mass Center for the Book
    • If you read a book in each of the 12 months, you will be entered in a drawing to win 1 of 2 totes filled with books and Massachusetts goodies

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