Read Native American and Indigenous Canadian authors

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32 participants (151 books)

Overview

There are 574 federally recognized Native Nations (variously called tribes, nations, bands, pueblos, communities and native villages) in the United States. More than 400 more Nations are not federally recognized. 

In the borders of Canada, there are more than 630 federally recognized governments or bands among the comprise the First Nations, Inuit or Métis peoples.   

Read 12 or more books of any format or genre by authors who self-identify as Native or Indigenous.

Challenge Books

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This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

This Accident of Being Lost: Songs and Stories

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

123 pages • paperback • 2017

fiction poetry short stories challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline

Hunting by Stars

The Marrow Thieves #2

Cherie Dimaline

390 pages • hardcover • 2021

fiction dystopian young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

250 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

Night of the Mannequins

Stephen Graham Jones

2 hours, 58 minutes • audio • 2020

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense fast-paced
The Storyteller by Brandon Hobson

The Storyteller

Brandon Hobson

253 pages • digital • 2023

fiction fantasy magical realism middle grade adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud, Kalila J Fuller

Finding My Dance

Ria Thundercloud, Kalila J Fuller

40 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction childrens memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School by Adam Fortunate Eagle

Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School

Adam Fortunate Eagle

6 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2010

nonfiction history memoir informative inspiring slow-paced
What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland by Waziyatawin Angela Wilson

What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland

Waziyatawin Angela Wilson

200 pages • paperback • 2008

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty

Crushed Wild Mint

Jess Housty

128 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction poetry emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg

Birdie

Tracey Lindberg

288 pages • hardcover • 2015

fiction literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced