Native American / Indigenous Literature

Description
Our September List of the Month is dedicated to the literature of indigenous peoples. Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal, Maori. If the literature explores the indigenous experience, and is written (or co-written) by an indigenous author, please add it to the list. Only downvote titles that do not fit this theme, or that are not written by indigenous authors.
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8,899 members
127 reviews
½ 4.3
10 Members
reader517, Cecrow, bibliotecara, MaureenRoy, briannad84, ojy, Tess_W, GrinningCat, MaryBiblio, jhammers905,Muscogulus
Explanations
Cecrow: Noting however, the author is not indigenous!
Muscogulus : This 1970 book should be no one's first choice for learning Native American history today. Other white authors had written heartfelt books about U.S. cruelty and injustice toward Indians in the past, to little effect. American Indian activists and the shock of the Vietnam War made the public ready to receive this one. It has had a historic impact but it does not provide a comprehensive view of its topic.
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1,973 members
87 reviews
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9 Members
terran, andsoitgoes, ktswjw, sturlington, elkiedee, skaplanolmsted, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707
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LyndaInOregon: Not all Native American battles were fought in the landscape. This historically-based novel follows the fight of a Chippewa tribe to retain its tribal identity against federal legislation in the 1950s
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3,906 members
78 reviews
3.9
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3,925 members
220 reviews
4
8 Members
sipthereader, vwinsloe, Narshkite, jwk, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707, jhammers905
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LyndaInOregon: Part coming-of-age, part mystery, part an indictment of the tangle of jurisdictions covering crimes on Indian reservations, Erdrich's novel alternately glows and rages.
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2,517 members
63 reviews
4
7 Members
ktswjw, earthwind, bibliotecara, ahef1963, Murphy-Jacobs, LyndaInOregon, RODNEYP
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LyndaInOregon: This is the piece that exploded Alexie onto the public's mind; the Chicago Tribune's book critic said "it is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940”. It's a brilliant, bitter, funny, heartbreaking piece of work and a uniquely American classic.
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2,161 members
99 reviews
3.9
6 Members
Euryale, yoyogod, norabelle414, sturlington, skaplanolmsted, ManWithAnAgenda
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yoyogod: A multi award winning horror novel by a Native American writer.
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3,540 members
59 reviews
3.8
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1,412 members
45 reviews
3.9
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158 members
7 reviews
4
5 Members
andersonden, Narshkite, aspirit, tmrps, Ellyist
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aspirit: Aboriginal Australians
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368 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
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696 members
49 reviews
3.9
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1,792 members
54 reviews
3.8
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736 members
12 reviews
4.2
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1,633 members
101 reviews
3.9
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1,145 members
28 reviews
4
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526 members
36 reviews
3.9
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541 members
33 reviews
4.2
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5,964 members
303 reviews
4.1
5 Members
sipthereader, ahef1963, MaryBiblio, danbennett, shedgeco, ,Muscogulus ,ojy
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: I can find no evidence that Grann is Native American.
Muscogulus : This is an excellent book of reporting on corruption and murder, but it is not Native American literature.
ojy : Writer is not indigenous/native
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1,204 members
51 reviews
4
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306 members
8 reviews
3.8
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2,313 members
70 reviews
3.9
2 Members
clue, ShannT
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506 members
33 reviews
3.8
2 Members
tardis, ahef1963
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494 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
elenchus, LyndaInOregon
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LyndaInOregon: Deloria looks at the life of a typical Sioux woman at the time when contact with white culture was just beginning, concentrating on the quotidian.
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385 members
14 reviews
4.1
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1,196 members
15 reviews
3.8
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391 members
2 reviews
3.8
2 Members
lottpoet, Ellyist
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1,756 members
53 reviews
4.1
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1,982 members
64 reviews
4.1
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778 members
61 reviews
3.8
2 Members
markon, Charon07
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158 members
16 reviews
4.1
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154 members
11 reviews
3.9
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59 members
1 review
½ 4.3
2 Members
Fawkrill, tmrps
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1,929 members
36 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
clue, bibliotecara
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1,880 members
78 reviews
4
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2,023 members
39 reviews
3.9
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468 members
42 reviews
½ 4.4
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332 members
9 reviews
3.9
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2,081 members
91 reviews
½ 3.7
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376 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
eo206, GarthW
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235 members
7 reviews
4
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885 members
18 reviews
3.8
2 Members
jwk, LyndaInOregon
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1,318 members
24 reviews
3.9
2 Members
PaperbackPirate, LyndaInOregon
Explanations
LyndaInOregon: This is a beautifully crafted collection of nine short stories that are funny and heartbreaking and memorable in their truth and beauty. The protagonists battle the same kinds of demons of loss and love and life and death that we all face.
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3,807 members
112 reviews
4.1
Member
Aquila
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1,902 members
28 reviews
3.8
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844 members
15 reviews
4
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catrn
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770 members
22 reviews
4.2
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MaureenRoy
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MaureenRoy: The author uncovers evidence that many thousands of years before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across Australia were planting, irrigating and harvesting seeds, and establishing a civilization. Their description as "hunter-gatherers" by whites was a convenient lie to justify dispossession.
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645 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
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542 members
3 reviews
3.9
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505 members
15 reviews
½ 4.4
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465 members
22 reviews
4.1
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423 members
8 reviews
4.1
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eo206
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357 members
23 reviews
4.1
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GarthW
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350 members
19 reviews
4.1
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markon
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249 members
8 reviews
3.9
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195 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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135 members
1 review
4
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Ling.Lass
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125 members
4
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96 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
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78 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
LyndaInOregon
Explanations
LyndaInOregon: Glancy uses a unique device here, alternating between excerpts from the Lewis & Clark journals with fictional commentary from Sacajawea on the same incidents, revealing the depth and width of the chasm of understanding between the two cultures.
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70 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
anglemark
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67 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
Kindleifier
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Kindleifier: Oral history of Crazy Horse as passed down to his closest living relatives
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45 members
1 review
3.8
Member
aspirit
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aspirit: Poetry from various North American peoples
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28 members
9 reviews
½ 4.6
Member
books6548
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25 members
1 review
½ 4.3
Member
BLBera
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25 members
½ 3.7
Member
yoyogod
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yoyogod: An award winning horror novel by a Native American writer.
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Member
Dilara86
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Member
Muscogulus
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Muscogulus: A Shawnee philosopher draws on indigenous knowledge while engaging with and refining a Western constructivist frame of reality as "equally privileged, well-made actual worlds." This is a technical yet humane and humorous essay proposing four common themes in American Indian philosophy: relatedness, circularity, expansive personhood, and the semantic power of performance such as dance.
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10 members
3
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geemoens
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2 members
4
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-pilgrim-
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-pilgrim-: The author is Sami (i.e. of the indigenous people of Northen Finland) as is the protagonist.
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2,477 members
107 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Hccpsk
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1,841 members
87 reviews
½ 4.3
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1,290 members
13 reviews
4
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Charon07
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1,159 members
37 reviews
3.8
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1,137 members
13 reviews
4.1
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871 members
58 reviews
3.9
Member
aspirit
Explanations
aspirit: Pacific NW, North American
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720 members
66 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
eo206
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336 members
6 reviews
4.1
86
222 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
87
211 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
BLBera
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210 members
13 reviews
3.9
Member
lottpoet
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128 members
½ 3.3
Member
elenchus
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120 members
2 reviews
4.1
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GarthW
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91 members
2 reviews
4
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70 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
markon
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58 members
4 reviews
½ 4.5
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51 members
3 reviews
3.1
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Fawkrill
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42 members
16 reviews
4.1
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books6548
96
Member
hipdeep
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20 members
3 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
Aquila
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906 members
50 reviews
4.1
99
352 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
Euryale
100
346 members
10 reviews
4.2