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Native American Heritage Month Resource Guide

Recommended Reading

Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs

Woven in moonlight

Hunting by stars

Notable native people : 50 indigenous leaders, dreamers, and changemakers from past and present

Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods

Apple skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures

African American and Cherokee nurses in Appalachia : a history, 1900/1965

Reproduction on the Reservation : Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century

Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua

There there : Orange, Tommy

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants : Kimmerer, Robin

The other Americans : Lalami, Laila

The four sacred gifts: indigenous wisdom for modern times : Sanchez, Anita L.

As long as grass grows: the indigenous fight for environmental justice from colonization to Standing Rock : Gilio-Whitaker, Dina

An indigenous peoples' history of the United States : Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

Custer died for your sins: an Indian manifesto : Deloria, Vine

Dark emu: black seeds agriculture or accident? : Pascoe, Bruce

The Montana Cree: a study in religious persistence : Dusenberry, Verne

More Reading Materials & Resources

A Guide to Reliable Native American-Related Teaching Resources [Native Minnesota]
American Indians in Children's Literature
American Indian Library Association
American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism -- "Indigenous Periodicals"
Celebrating American Historical Holidays: Indigenous Peoples' Day [Gilder Lehrman]
Commemorating National Native American Heritage Month with TIE and Choice Content [Choice 360]
Goodbye, Columbus? Here's what Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native Americans [NPR]
Handbook of North American Indians [Smithsonian Scholarly Press]
High Country News
Indian Law Resource Center
Indigenous Copyright Concepts and Indigenous Data Sovereignty: How Libraries and Archives Can Support It [AALL]
Indigenous Foundations [Canada]
Indigenous Peoples - Health Sciences Search Filters [Subject Guides at University of Alberta Libraries]
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: A Guide to Resources at the Library of Congress
Indigenous Reads Rising
National Museum of the American Indian [Smithsonian Institution]
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition & Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Native America Today
Native American & Alaska Native Heritage Month [PBS]
Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
Native News Online
Native Voices Books
NYC Department of Education: Native American Heritage Month
Partnership with Native Americans & Northern Plains Reservation Aid (NPRA)
Resources For Honoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day [Drexel Libraries]
Supporting Indigenous Scholarship [ProQuest]
United American Indians of New England
United Houma Nation