November is National Native American Heritage Month!
To celebrate, we've put together a collection of incredible works that illuminate the Native American experience and remind us how vital these stories are to the history and makeup of America.
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The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich: Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.
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Also from Louise Erdrich:
Future Home of the Living God
LaRose
The Round House
The Death of Sitting Bear by N. Scott Momaday: Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 100 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition.
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Also from N. Scott Momaday:
House Made of Dawn
The Ancient Child
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday: A special
50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning classic from N. Scott Momaday, with a new preface by the author.
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Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden: An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation, Winter Counts is a tour-de-force of crime fiction, a bracingly honest look at a long-ignored part of American life, and a twisting, turning story that’s as deeply rendered as it is thrilling.
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Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline: A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou—a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of native people’s communities.
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Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin: From the award-winning author of Lean on Pete and The Free comes this moving novel—an ALA Notable Book and a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award—about a young ranch hand who goes on a quest to become a champion boxer to prove his worth.
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The Tale Teller by Anne Hillerman: Legendary Navajo policeman Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn takes center stage in this riveting atmospheric mystery from New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman that combines crime, superstition, and tradition, and brings the desert Southwest vividly alive.
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Also from the author:
Cave of Bones
Song of the Lion
Rock with Wings
In a Barren Land by Paula Mitchell Marks: Award-winning historian Paula Mitchell Marks reconfirms her status as one of the foremost contemporary chroniclers of the American West with this definitive account of American Indian cultures under siege from 1607 to the present.
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Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones: A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on the fringe of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.
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Two Old Women by Velma Wallis: Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine.
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-Chris
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