Part of the goal of the 2020 Reading Challenge is to get you to not only try new books, but also step outside of your comfort zone. This includes reading books from cultures different than your own. We included books written by or about indigenous people because their voices are just as significant, but far too often not heard. Try one of these amazing stories today and explore a worldview outside your own!
Fiction
Follow twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling
to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may
not yet realize.
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a
reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after
being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his
three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
The shattering disappearance of two young girls from Russia's
Kamchatka Peninsula compounds the isolation and fears of a tight-woven
community, connecting the lives of neighbors, witnesses, family members
and a detective throughout an ensuing year of tension.
As the French exploit long-standing conflicts between the Huron and the Iroquois to gain control of their respective territories, shifting alliances between all three groups irrevocably alter the landscape of North America and the lives of its indigenous people.
Nonfiction
Presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
A memoir chronicling Mailhot's struggle to balance
the beauty of her Native heritage with the often desperate and chaotic
reality of life on the reservation.
In the early 1800s, the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed from their
original lands east of the Mississippi to Indian Territory, which is now
part of Oklahoma. Two hundred years later, Joy Harjo returns to her
family’s lands and opens a dialogue with history.
An anthropologist's chronicle of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present traces the unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention of distinct tribe cultures that assimilated into mainstream life to preserve Native identity.
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