Native Lives, Native Stories

2021·3.3 MB·English

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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Native Lives,
Native Stories
Booklist for Adults, Teens, and Children | 2021
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Native Lives, Native Stories is a list of books published in the
previous year for all ages concerning the experiences of the
Native and Indigenous communities throughout North America.
This inaugural printing is part of the Boston Public Library's
annual observance of Native American Heritage Month.
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By Michael Hutchinson
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The Mighty Muskrats have a new case
to solve: to find the whereabouts of their
The Barren Grounds: grandpa’s long-lost sister. The Muskrats’
The Misewa Saga, search for their missing auntie takes
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reveals hard truths about their country’s
By David A. Robertson
treatment of First Nation families.
(Norway House Cree Nation)
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== Morgan and Eli, two
Indigenous children forced away from their
families and communities, are brought
together in a foster home in Winnipeg, Charles Albert Bender:
Manitoba. They both struggle to fit in at National Hall of Fame Pitcher
school and at their new home — until
By Kade Ferris (Metis Nation Citizen of the
they discover a portal to another reality,
Manitoba Metis Federation), illustrated
where they meet Ochek (Fisher).
by Tashia Hart (Red Lake Anishinaabe)
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Ferris takes us through the life of Charles
Albert Bender, a World Series-winning
pitcher who invented the slider and
THE B — The Brave was the first Minnesotan inducted into
the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
By James Bird (Ojibwe)
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- Collin has a unique condition
- that leads him to count every
- letter spoken to him. When he
is asked to leave yet another Ella Cara Deloria:
wie St school, his dad decides to Dakota Language Protector
send him to live on a reservation in Minnesota
By Diane Wilson (Mdewakanton
with the Ojibwe mother he’s never met.
descendent, enrolled on the Rosebud
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Reservation), illustrated by Tashia
Hart (Red Lake Anishinaabe)
As a child, Ella loved to listen to her family tell
stories in the Dakota language. She grew up
to write stories of her own and was able to
record many other American Indian peoples’
stories and languages in an effort to share
and protect them for future generations.
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America’s Prima Ballerina [)
By Jennifer Marino Walters, Powwow: A Celebration
illustrated by Nigel Dobbyn Through Song and Dance []
Maria Tallchief knew she wanted to By Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane
dance while watching Osage dancers (Anishinaabe from Wiikwemkoong
as a child in Oklahoma — though only on Manitoulin Island, Ontario)
men were allowed to dance in tribal
A powwow is a celebration of Indigenous
ceremonies. Instead, Maria went on to
song and dance. Journey through
become America’s first prima ballerina.
the history of powwow culture in
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thriving powwow culture of today.
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Mary and the Trail
of Tears: A Cherokee
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By Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of
eet By Andrea L. Rogers Chippewa Indians, Anishinaabe), illustrated
cece (Cherokee Nation), by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
illustrated by Matt Forsyth A story of hearth and home, of memory and
Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family imagination, of childhood recaptured in the
are forced out of their home in Georgia by reflection of a shiny blue woodstove, of the
U.S. soldiers in May 1838. Getting separated warm heart of family in the Turtle Mountains.
from her father and facing horrors such as J PICTURE ERDRICH L
internment, violence, disease, and harsh
weather, Mary perseveres to keep her family
and friends together while on the Trail of Tears.
The Train []
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By Jodie Callaghan (Listuguj Mi’gmag First
Nation in Gespe’gewa’gi), illustrated by
Georgia Lesley (First Nations community
Peggy Flanagan: Ogimaa
of Siska in the N‘laka’pamux territory)
Kwe, Lieutenant Governor
Ashley meets her great-uncle by the old
By Jessica Engelking (White Earth Band train tracks near their reserve in Nova
of Ojibwe, member of the lowa Tribe of Scotia, and he shares with her the history
Kansas and Nebraska), illustrated by of those tracks. During his childhood,
Tashia Hart (Red Lake Anishinaabe) the train would bring their community
Peggy Flanagan is the Lieutenant Governor supplies. Later, the train took him and the
of Minnesota and the first Native woman to other children away to a residential school,
hold such a high elected statewide office in the where their lives were changed forever.
United States. She is currently working hard J PICTURE CALLAGHA J
to change how Native peoples’ stories are told
throughout the school system and beyond.
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From the Roots Up:
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(Anishinabe/Métis, te Cite : Volume Two [] =
From the Roots Up
enrolled in the Turtle
By Tasha Spillett [Inninewak
Mountain Band of Ojibwe Indians),
(Cree) and Trinidadian
illustrated by Michaela Goade (Tlingit
bloodlines], illustrated by
& Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)
Natasha Donovan (Métis)
Water is the first medicine. It affects and
Dez and Miikwan’'s stories continue in this
connects us all. Inspired by the many
sequel to Surviving the City. While grieving the
Indigenous-led movements across North
death of her grandmother and living in a group
America, this bold and lyrical Caldecott
home, Dez navigates a new relationship and
Award-winning picture book issues an
coming into her identity as a two-spirit person.
urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth's
water from harm and corruption. Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
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The Whale Child ry Redbone: The True Story
_ of a Native American
By Kenneth Egawa (Lummi Indian
Nation), illustrated by Chenoah Egawa 4 Rock Band [) 23
(Coast Salish of the Lummi and S'Klallam
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Nations of Washington State)
Sonia Paoloni, illustrated
Shiny, a whale child, teaches Alex the wisdom by Thibault Balahy
of the Native American value of environmental
Brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas were talented
stewardship so that she can share it with
Native American rock musicians that
others. Includes a glossary of environmental
took the 1960s Sunset Strip by storm.
terms, facts about Pacific Northwest Native
They influenced The Doors and jammed
cultures, and other educational resources.
with Jimmy Hendrix before he was “Jimi,”
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Native Americans soon followed.
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dysfunctional family must risk the only two
generations of her Lipan Apache family. The
things he has: his reputation and freedom.
picture-perfect facade of her hometown
masks gruesome secrets, and she must Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
rely on her wits to protect her family.
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Sovereignty: A Play
By Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee)
In this dual timeline play, a current day
Cherokee lawyer and her colleague defend
the inherent jurisdiction of the Cherokee
Nation in the U.S. Supreme Court. Meanwhile,
in 1835, the pair's ancestors are bitterly
EXPRESSIONS
divided over a proposed treaty with the
administration of Andrew Jackson, one
which would lead to the nation’s removal and
migration to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears.
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Through a Native
HOME 5. Edited by Sara Sinclair
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(Cree-Ojibwa)
7 Indian Photography
™ In myriad ways, each
; RDTED BF SARA SINCLANe EB narrator's life has been By Nicole Strathman
shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience Strathman highlights the
— and by the struggle of how to share active contributions of North American
space with settler nations whose essential Indians between 1840 and 1940, both as
aim is to take all that is Indigenous. Here, patrons who commissioned portraits and as
Sinclair shares contemporary Indigenous photographers who created collections.
stories in the long and ongoing fight
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to protect Native land and life.
Available as an eBook through
Hoopla and Overdrive.
MEMOIR
The Native Mexican Kitchen:
A Journey into Cuisine,
Bae A Memoir of
Culture, and Mezcal
Survival on Stolen Land
By Noel Morales (Aztec and
Omec) and Rachel Glueck
By Toni Jensen (Métis)
The Native Mexican Kitchen is an homage to
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the Indigenous peoples’ culinary and cultural
TONI JENSEN what it means to exist
traditions that create Mexican cuisine.
as an Indigenous woman in America,
Available as an eBook through Hoopla.
told through snapshots of the author's
encounters with gun violence.
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Native: Identity, Belonging,
and Rediscovering God [)
Genocidal Love: A Life
after Residential School By Kaitlin B. Curtice (Potawatomi Nation)
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Drawing on the narrative of her personal
By Bevann Fox (Pasqua journey and the poetry, imagery, and
First Nation) stories of the Potawatomi people, Curtice
addresses themes at the forefront of
Fox delves into the long-
today’s discussions of faith and culture
term effects of childhood trauma on
in a positive and constructive way.
those who attended residential school
and demonstrates the power of story Available as an eBook through
to help in recovery and healing. Hoopla and Overdrive.
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One Voice Rising:
A History of My Brief Body /) The Life of Clifford
Duncan
By Billy-Ray Belcourt (Driftpile Cree Nation)
By Clifford Duncan (Ute)
This essay collection on grief, colonial
with Linda Sillitoe
violence, joy, love, and queerness from
the youngest ever winner of the Griffin An inspiring leader and a powerful
Prize touches upon Belcourt's personal medicine man, Duncan offers a unique
history and demonstrates the power of look at individual and societal issues,
words to both devastate and console us. including the Native American Church,
powwows and tribal celebrations, as well
Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
as interactions with the larger world.
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By Alicia Elliott (Tuscarora)
Asking essential questions
. about the treatment of Native
people in North America
Beaver, Bison, Horse: The Traditional
: while drawing on intimate
nee of fer own life and experience with Knowledge and Ecology of the
intergenerational trauma, Elliott offers Northern Great Plains /]
indispensable insight and understanding
By R. Grace Morgan
to the ongoing legacy of colonialism.
An interdisciplinary account of the
Available as an eBook and audio-
ecological relationships of Indigenous
book through Overdrive.
nations with beavers, bison, horses, and
their habitats prior to contact, showing
an understanding that has sustained
Native peoples for thousands of years.
Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
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Haboo: Native American Stories
from Puget Sound, Second Edition
Translated and edited by
Vi Hilbert (Upper Skagit)
A collection of 33 stories and legends from
the oral tradition of the Lushootseed-speaking
people of Puget Sound. Prominent characters
like Wolf, Salmon, and Changer — and
Dammed: The Politics
tricksters including Mink, Raven, and Coyote
of Loss and Survival in
— populate these humorous, earthy stories
Anishinaabe Territory [) that offer moral instruction while detailing
By Brittany Luby the consequences of breaking taboos.
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Exploring Canada’s hydroelectric boom in
the Lake of the Woods area, Luby explains Help Indians Help Themselves:
how both governments and developers The Later Writings of Gertrude
excluded the Anishinabeg from planning Simmons-Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) [J
and operations, while also failing to consider
By Gertrude Simmons-Bonnin
how power production would influence the
(Zitkala-Sa) (Yankton Sioux)
health and economy of their communities.
Edited by P. Jane Hafen (Taos Pueblo)
Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
This book gathers the works of Simmons-
Bonnin (1876-1938), including her
articles and editorials for American
The Ghost Road: Indian magazine, as well as her letters,
Anishinaabe Responses speeches, and congressional testimony on
to Indian Hating [) legislation affecting American Indians in
the early decades of the 20th century.
By Matthew L.M. Fletcher
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(Grand Traverse Band)
American law and policy
have been molded by the relentless Hungry Eas=peret T hea Hungry Listening:
tradition of Indian-hating, and attacks on Listening
Resonant Theory
tribal governance and individuals remain
endemic. More than just a study of the for Indigenous
progression of law, Fletcher balances Sound Studies [)
each chapter of history with a traditional
By Dylan Robinson
Anishinaabe story or teaching, providing
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both context and a roadmap for survival.
Robinson explores Indigenous participation
Available as an eBook through Hoopla.
in classical and popular music as well as the
structures of inclusion that reinforce Western
musical values. Included are examples of
“doing sovereignty” in Indigenous performance
art, museum exhibitions, and gatherings that
support an Indigenous listening resurgence.
Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
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Native American Entrepreneurs []
By Ron P. Sheffield and J. Mark Munoz
invested Indifference: How Violence [Quechan Tribe (Sheffield)]
Persists in Settler Colonial Society Native American entrepreneurs are important
contributors to the American economy
By Kara Granzow
and social landscape. Captured here are
A divergent perspective on the disappearance the entrepreneurial stories and mindsets
and murder of over one thousand Indigenous
of contemporary Native Americans.
women and girls in Canada since the 1980s.
Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
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Native Americans of New England
IWIGARA lwigara: The Kinship
By Christoph Strobel
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Q Strobel brings New England's Native
American past to life through case studies,
By Enrique Salmon anecdotes, stories, and biographies
| [Raramuri (Tarahumara)] while emphasizing the continued Native
ENRIQUE SALMON N Gaigy explores 150 American presence in the region.
plants of key importance to American E78.N5 S77 2020
Indians, revealing how they were
traditionally used, what their medicinal
benefits are, and some of the traditional
The Red Road and Other
stories and myths about each plant.
Narratives of the Dakota Sioux
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By Samuel Mniyo & Robert Goodvoice
(Wahpeton Dakota Nation)
Mniyo and Goodvoice describe the Red
The Language Warrior's Manifesto:
Road and the Holy Dance (also called
How to Keep Our Languages
the Medicine Dance), two of the most
Alive No Matter the Odds [)
important traditions of the Dakota people.
By Anton Treuer (Ojibwe) E99.D1 M64 2020
Through deliberate suppression and cultural
destruction, the 500 languages spoken in
North America before European contact
Tecumseh and the Prophet:
have dwindled to about 150. Their ongoing
The Shawnee Brothers Who
survival depends on immediate, energetic
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interventions. Learn how dedicated language
warriors are powering a resurgence of By Peter Cozzens
Indigenous languages and cultures.
Cozzens's biography of the great Shawnee
Available as an eBook through Hoopla. leader shows how Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh’'s
misunderstood younger brother, was an
equal partner in the last great pan-Indian
alliance against the United States.
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Unworthy Republic: The
Dispossession of Native Americans
and the Road to Indian Territory »)) [) Field Notes for the Self /)
By Claudio Saunt
By Randy Lundy (Barren
Through firsthand accounts, this history of the Lands Nation of Cree)
forced migration of 80,000 Native Americans Lundy offers a series of dark meditations,
across the Mississippi River in the 1830s or spiritual exercises, in which the poem
reveals how Indian Removal became normal
becomes a forensics of the soul.
policy, the chaotic and deadly results, and
Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
the consequences that still resonate today.
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A History of Kindness [)
By Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
POETRY
Standing at the crossroads
of a world that wavers
between loss and survival,
Hogan explores how our
day/break [) history instructs the present,
while envisioning a future alive with hope
By Gwen Benaway
for a healthy and sustainable world.
(Anishinaabe and Métis)
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Through intimate experiences
and conceptualizations
of trans life, Benaway
asks what it means to be it was never going to be okay []
a trans woman. Both within the text and By jaye simpson (Oji-Cree Saulteaux
out in the physical world, she questions - Sapotaweyak Cree Nation)
how gender, sexuality, and love intersect
A collection of poetry and prose that
with the violence of transmisogyny.
explores the intimacies of understanding
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intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity, and
Hoopla and Overdrive.
queerness while addressing urban Indigenous
diaspora and breaking down the limitations
of sexual understanding as a trans woman.
The Death of Sitting Bear Available as an eBook through Hoopla.
By N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)
The title poem is a celebration of heritage
and a memorial to the great Kiowa warrior
and chief while others are meditations
on mortality, love, and loss, as well as
reflections on the incomparable and holy
landscape of the American Southwest.
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Postcolonial Love Poem []
By Natalie Diaz (Mojave)
In a long-awaited follow-up to the award- Concerned with nature,
winning When My Brother Was an Aztec, Diaz history, tradition, and
reflects in verse on desire and colonialism, relationships, Noodin
considering bodies as both object and subject. illuminates the vital place of her tribe, both
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world. The collection is bilingual, including
Anishinaabemowin and English.
Available as an eBook through Overdrive.
The Radiant Lives of Animals
By Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
Concerned that human lives and the natural
When the Light of the World
world are too often defined by people
Was Subdued, Our Songs Came
who are separated from the land and its
Through: A Norton Anthology
inhabitants, Hogan depicts her own intense
relationships with animals as an example of Native Nations Poetry
we all can follow to heal our souls and Edited by Joy Harjo (Muscogee
reconnect with the spirit of the world. (Creek) Nation)
PS3558.034726 A6 2020 This anthology gathers the work of
more than 160 poets representing
nearly 100 Indigenous nations.
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By Marie-Andrée Gill (IInu)
In this braided collection of poems set in
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the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Words Like Thunder:
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Lake Piekuakami in Quebec, Gill asks: How New and Used
THUNDER
can one reclaim a narrative that has been Anishinaabe Prayers []
confiscated and distorted by colonizers?
By Lois Beardslee (Ojibwe)
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Transforming the mundane
Hoopla and Overdrive.
into the sacred, Beardslee
tackles contemporary topics like climate
change and socioeconomic equality while
empowering readers and celebrating the
strengths of today's Indigenous peoples.
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