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• We Are the Land

  a History of Native California

  Akins, Damon B., 1971-

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  A mindful exploration of how the lives and legacies of people native to this land shaped the creation of California.

• Yáamay

  An Anthology of Feminine Perspectives Across Indigenous California

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  This collection of Indigenous poetry, artwork, and essays highlights the varied viewpoints, powerful joys, and ancestral sorrows of women with native roots in Southern California.

• Movements and Moments

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  A graphic novel with global perspectives on the intersections between Indigenous identity, womanhood, and rebellion in the face of oppression.

• New Native Kitchen

  Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian

  Bitsoie, Freddie,

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  A visually stunning cookbook with recipes using native ingredients in contemporary ways.

• An Ordinary Violence

  a Novel

  Chartrand, Adriana

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  This debut horror novel inspects the ways violence, grief, and unprocessed trauma weave their way through time to keep old hurts from healing.

• 1666

  a Novel

  Chilton, Lora,

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  Based on the real-life 1666 massacre of their tribe's men, this novel follows the stories of three Virginian Patawomeck women's survival after they're sold into slavery.

• Finding Otipemisiwak

  the People Who Own Themselves

  Currie, Andrea (Andrea M.),

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  Through essay, poetry, and song, author Andrea Currie shares her childhood experience as one of the many Indigenous children removed from their birth families and trapped in the Canadian welfare system.

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  A lovingly crafted history of this land told without the lens of European colonizers.

• Birds Through Indigenous Eyes

  Native Perspectives on Birds of the Eastern Woodlands

  Gaffin, Dennis,

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  An intimate look at Native American beliefs and myths about birds. Told in conversation between Algonquin, Ojibwe, and Iroquois friends.

• Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

  Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

  Harjo, Joy

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  Three-time poet laureate Joy Harjo hand picks 50 poems that showcasae her illustrious, 50-year-long career in poetry.

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  This sinuous horror novel recounts a Native revenge tale 100 years in the making.

• Meet the Neighbors

  Animal Minds and Life in a More-than-human World

  Keim, Brandon, 1976-

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• The Serviceberry

  Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 1953-

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  Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer considers abundance and the ethic of reciprocity as she guides us on a serviceberry harvest.

• The Truth According to Ember

  Nava, Danica,

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  Two Native leads overcome office etiquette and HR obstacles to find love in this bubbly rom-com.

• American Oasis

  Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest

  Paoletta, Kyle,

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  A richly reported, sweeping history of the American Southwest and our shared environmental and cultural future.

• To the Moon and Back

  a Novel

  Ramage, Eliana,

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  Follow a Cherokee woman on her years-long journey to reach the moon.

• Anishinaabe Songs for a New Millennium

  Rendon, Marcie R.,

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  Divided into "Dream Songs" and "Performance Songs," author and poet Marcie Rendon brings Anishinaabe Ojibwe tradition and meaning forward in this collection of poem-songs.

• Where They Last Saw Her

  a Novel

  Rendon, Marcie R.

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• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  A gripping tale of an Anishinaabe community's struggle to survive a post-apocalyptic winter landscape.

• Moon of the Turning Leaves

  a Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig, 1979-

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  Set 12 years after the events of "Moon of the Crusted Snow," this follow-up sees our heroes on their journey to reconnect with nature, tradition, and their ancestral lands.