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"INDIGENOUS VOICES FOR LITTLE EARS: 15 BOOKS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITION AND HISTORY FOR CHILDREN"
Written by Brandie DeRusha. Published Aug 12, 2020.
https://bookriot.com/native-american-childrens-books/?fbclid=IwAR2kx-HTt18syr_7d4SmDMOaVPAOsg7Q6yaaZnImF1Y6cUxQVtPl-vSQnLs
2020 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FROM GULF OF MAINE BOOKS:
Non-Fiction:
"Sacred Instructions - Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change" by Sherri Mitchell
"The Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"Sand Talk - How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World" by Tyson Yunkaporta
Two by Lisa Brooks - "Our Beloved Kin" and "The Common Pot"
"Anoqcou - Ceremony Is Life Itself" by Gkisedtanamoogk
"A Mind Spread Out on the Ground" by Alicia Elliott
"Carry - a memoir of survival on stolen land" by Toni Jensen
"As Long as Grass grows - The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock" by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
"Lakota America - A New History of Indigenous Power" by Pekka Hamalainen
Two by Robin Wall Kimmerer - "Braiding Sweetgrass" and "Gathering Moss"
"Dancing on Our Turtle's Back" by Leanne Beta Samosake Simpson,
A new anthology "All We Can Save - truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis" with prose and poetry from over 50 women writers, including Sherri Mitchell, Joy Harjo, Joan Kane, and Tara Houska Zhaabowekwe.( learn about the anthology's contributors here: https://www.allwecansave.earth/contributors )
Fiction:
"The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich
"Empire of Wild" by Cherie Dimaline
"There There" by Tommy Orange
"Crooked Hallelujah" by Kelli Jo Ford
"Beadworkers" - stories by Beth Piatote
"Winter Counts" by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
"The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones
"Bone Black" by Carol Rose Goldeneagle
"Split Tooth" by Tanya Tagaq. (Some of us were lucky enough to hear Tanya Tagaq when she performed at Bowdoin a few years ago. Here is a link to a performance at the Kennedy Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClLbkEMaNvU&t=1885s&ab_channel=TheKennedyCenter)
Poetry
A just released anthology: "When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our songs came through - a Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry" edited by Joy Harjo (as well as a number of collections from Joy Harjo, including her most recent "An American Sunrise"), "20th Century Powwow Playland" by Mihku Paul
"Bear, Coyote, Raven" by Jason Grundstrom-Whitney
"The Death of Sitting Bear - new and selected poems" by N Scott Momaday
Two new titles from Linda Hogan - "A History of Kindness" and "The Radiant Lives of Animals"
"Whereas" - poems by Layli Long Soldier
"Little Big Bully" by Heid Erdrich
"Lines from a Mined Mind"" by John Trudell
"PostColonial Love Poem" by Natalie Diaz
"Back Then Tomorrow" by Peter Blue Cloud
Two collections by Joan Naviyuk Kane - "Milk Black Carbon" and "The Cormorant Hunter's Wife".
New anthology "Enough - poems of Resistance and protest", from Littoral Books in Portland, which includes poems by Donna Loring and Mihku Paul.
"INDIGENOUS VOICES FOR LITTLE EARS: 15 BOOKS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITION AND HISTORY FOR CHILDREN"
Written by Brandie DeRusha. Published Aug 12, 2020.
https://bookriot.com/native-american-childrens-books/?fbclid=IwAR2kx-HTt18syr_7d4SmDMOaVPAOsg7Q6yaaZnImF1Y6cUxQVtPl-vSQnLs
2020 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS FROM GULF OF MAINE BOOKS:
Non-Fiction:
"Sacred Instructions - Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change" by Sherri Mitchell
"The Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
"Sand Talk - How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World" by Tyson Yunkaporta
Two by Lisa Brooks - "Our Beloved Kin" and "The Common Pot"
"Anoqcou - Ceremony Is Life Itself" by Gkisedtanamoogk
"A Mind Spread Out on the Ground" by Alicia Elliott
"Carry - a memoir of survival on stolen land" by Toni Jensen
"As Long as Grass grows - The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock" by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
"Lakota America - A New History of Indigenous Power" by Pekka Hamalainen
Two by Robin Wall Kimmerer - "Braiding Sweetgrass" and "Gathering Moss"
"Dancing on Our Turtle's Back" by Leanne Beta Samosake Simpson,
A new anthology "All We Can Save - truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis" with prose and poetry from over 50 women writers, including Sherri Mitchell, Joy Harjo, Joan Kane, and Tara Houska Zhaabowekwe.( learn about the anthology's contributors here: https://www.allwecansave.earth/contributors )
Fiction:
"The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich
"Empire of Wild" by Cherie Dimaline
"There There" by Tommy Orange
"Crooked Hallelujah" by Kelli Jo Ford
"Beadworkers" - stories by Beth Piatote
"Winter Counts" by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
"The Only Good Indians" by Stephen Graham Jones
"Bone Black" by Carol Rose Goldeneagle
"Split Tooth" by Tanya Tagaq. (Some of us were lucky enough to hear Tanya Tagaq when she performed at Bowdoin a few years ago. Here is a link to a performance at the Kennedy Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClLbkEMaNvU&t=1885s&ab_channel=TheKennedyCenter)
Poetry
A just released anthology: "When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our songs came through - a Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry" edited by Joy Harjo (as well as a number of collections from Joy Harjo, including her most recent "An American Sunrise"), "20th Century Powwow Playland" by Mihku Paul
"Bear, Coyote, Raven" by Jason Grundstrom-Whitney
"The Death of Sitting Bear - new and selected poems" by N Scott Momaday
Two new titles from Linda Hogan - "A History of Kindness" and "The Radiant Lives of Animals"
"Whereas" - poems by Layli Long Soldier
"Little Big Bully" by Heid Erdrich
"Lines from a Mined Mind"" by John Trudell
"PostColonial Love Poem" by Natalie Diaz
"Back Then Tomorrow" by Peter Blue Cloud
Two collections by Joan Naviyuk Kane - "Milk Black Carbon" and "The Cormorant Hunter's Wife".
New anthology "Enough - poems of Resistance and protest", from Littoral Books in Portland, which includes poems by Donna Loring and Mihku Paul.