Native Voices for Native American Heritage Month 2023Like this list

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• Forever Cousins

  Goodluck, Laurel,

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  Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.

• Powwow Day

  Sorell, Traci,

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  Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ancestor Approved

  Intertribal Stories for Kids

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  Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride.

• Notable Native People

  50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers From Past and Present

  Keene, Adrienne, 1985-

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  Celebrate the lives, stories, and contributions of Indigenous artists, activists, scientists, athletes, and other changemakers in this illustrated collection.

• The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book

  Hill, Gord,

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  A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas that has been heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

  Treuer, Anton,

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  This revised edition both revisits old questions from a new perspective and expands on topics that have become increasingly relevant over the past decade, including activism and tribal enrollment; truth and reconciliation efforts; gender…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bad Indians

  a Tribal Memoir

  Miranda, Deborah A

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  In this beautiful and devastating book, part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir, Deborah Miranda tells both the stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• First Families

  a Photographic History of California Indians

  L. Frank

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  First Families, a one-of-a-kind book, draws on a recently compiled collection of 1,500 images donated by California Indians from their private family photo albums especially for this project. Enlivened by personal stories and deepened by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are the Land

  a History of Native California

  Akins, Damon B., 1971-

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  Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, "We Are the Land" recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood-paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism…Read moreRead more of this annotation