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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11,554 members
796 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 44.27
Added 2021-09-08, 05:12 PM
- 12 Members
- Morphidae, eo206, andsoitgoes, PaperbackPirate, bibliotecara, Yamanekotei, ahef1963, Murphy-Jacobs, skaplanolmsted, RODNEYP, Brandy1411, mrortiz
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4,009 members
116 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 42.84
Added 2021-09-08, 05:22 PM
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by Dee Brown
8,899 members
127 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 35.13
Added 2021-09-08, 05:21 PM
- 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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- 9 Members
- terran, andsoitgoes, ktswjw, sturlington, elkiedee, skaplanolmsted, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707
- Explanations
- 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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- 9 Members
- reader517, sturlington, jwk, CtrSacredSciences, Murphy-Jacobs, quondame, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707
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by Velma Wallis
1,450 members
59 reviews
3.9
Score 27.63
Added 2021-09-08, 04:34 PM
- 8 Members
- reader517, Euryale, andersonden, perennialreader, Tess_W, Murphy-Jacobs, AbigailAdams26, Ellyist
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- 8 Members
- sipthereader, vwinsloe, Narshkite, jwk, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707, jhammers905
- Explanations
- 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
Score 22.1
Added 2021-09-09, 02:18 PM
- 7 Members
- ktswjw, earthwind, bibliotecara, ahef1963, Murphy-Jacobs, LyndaInOregon, RODNEYP
- Explanations
- 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
Score 19.75
Added 2021-09-08, 05:24 PM
- 6 Members
- Euryale, yoyogod, norabelle414, sturlington, skaplanolmsted, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explanations
- yoyogod: A multi award winning horror novel by a Native American writer.
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- 6 Members
- reader517, sturlington, susanbooks, BLBera, skaplanolmsted, steller0707
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- 5 Members
- Aquila, andersonden, Yamanekotei, SouthernKiwi, Ellyist
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by Anita Heiss
158 members
7 reviews
4
Score 16.87
Added 2021-09-10, 05:21 AM
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by Thomas King
1,022 members
47 reviews
4.1
Score 16.44
Added 2021-09-09, 08:28 PM
- 5 Members
- Euryale, LDVoorberg, Cecrow, andersonden, barefootsong
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by David Treuer
368 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 13.12
Added 2021-09-09, 01:35 PM
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696 members
49 reviews
3.9
Score 13.08
Added 2021-09-09, 09:59 PM
- 4 Members
- terran, cbl_tn, quondame, decaturmamaof2
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1,792 members
54 reviews
3.8
Score 12.49
Added 2021-09-08, 09:05 PM
- 4 Members
- bibliotecara, perennialreader, MaryBiblio, mariaacostaa
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by David Treuer
736 members
12 reviews
4.2
Score 12.33
Added 2021-09-09, 01:34 PM
- 4 Members
- sipthereader, Narshkite, Hccpsk, RODNEYP
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1,633 members
101 reviews
3.9
Score 12.27
Added 2021-09-10, 09:01 AM
- 4 Members
- tardis, lottpoet, susanbooks, quondame
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by Thomas King
1,145 members
28 reviews
4
Score 11.36
Added 2021-09-08, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
- tardis, LDVoorberg, gypsysmom
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- 3 Members
- sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
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- 3 Members
- lottpoet, vancouverdeb, gypsysmom
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by David Grann
5,964 members
303 reviews
4.1
Score 9.1
Added 2021-09-10, 08:16 AM
- 5 Members
- sipthereader, ahef1963, MaryBiblio, danbennett, shedgeco, ,Muscogulus ,ojy
- Explanations
- 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
Score 9.08
Added 2021-09-22, 04:47 PM
- 3 Members
- andsoitgoes, ManWithAnAgenda, ShannT
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- 3 Members
- Aquila, quondame, Pamela_Inskeep
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- 2 Members
- elenchus, LyndaInOregon
- Explanations
- 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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- 2 Members
- markon, 37143Birnbaum
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- 2 Members
- cej1027, AbigailAdams26
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391 members
2 reviews
3.8
Score 6.83
Added 2021-09-11, 08:20 AM
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1,756 members
53 reviews
4.1
Score 6.73
Added 2021-09-08, 04:58 PM
- 2 Members
- onfiremanofGod, Brandy1411
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778 members
61 reviews
3.8
Score 6.68
Added 2021-09-13, 12:50 PM
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- 2 Members
- SouthernKiwi, Charon07
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- 2 Members
- jwk, CtrSacredSciences
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- 2 Members
- andsoitgoes, PaperbackPirate
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2,023 members
39 reviews
3.9
Score 5.87
Added 2021-09-10, 08:16 AM
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- 2 Members
- LDVoorberg, gypsysmom
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- 2 Members
- jwk, CtrSacredSciences
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- 2 Members
- Ling.Lass, perennialreader
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376 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
Score 5.5
Added 2021-09-24, 10:35 AM
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- 2 Members
- LDVoorberg, Romonko
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- 2 Members
- jwk, LyndaInOregon
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- 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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- Aquila
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- Member
- Michael.Rimmer
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- Member
- MaureenRoy
- Explanations
- 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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- miller.max
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- DellaWanna
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- vancouverdeb
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- markon
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- Pamela_Inskeep
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- dara85
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by Diane Glancy
78 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 4
Added 2021-09-09, 02:13 PM
- 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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67 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
Score 4
Added 2021-09-11, 05:11 PM
- Member
- Kindleifier
- Explanations
- Kindleifier: Oral history of Crazy Horse as passed down to his closest living relatives
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45 members
1 review
3.8
Score 4
Added 2021-09-16, 04:45 PM
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- BLBera
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13 members
5
Score 4
Added 2021-09-17, 04:27 PM
- Member
- Muscogulus
- Explanations
- 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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- geemoens
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- LDVoorberg
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- ManWithAnAgenda
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871 members
58 reviews
3.9
Score 3.36
Added 2021-09-10, 09:58 AM
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- PaperbackPirate
86
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- TooLittleReading
87
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- BLBera
91
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- AbigailAdams26
94
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- Fawkrill
97
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- Aquila
98
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- miller.max
99
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- Euryale