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• Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky

  Modern Plant-based Recipes Using Native American Ingredients

  Frank, Lois Ellen,

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  Imagine Italian food without tomato sauce, or South Asian cuisine without chilis. Yet these, and many other plants, are native to the Americas and were unknown to the "old world" before 1492. This cookbook celebrates these ingredients with…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Paranormal Ranger

  a Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained

  Milford, Stanley., Jr

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  Milford takes a look at paranormal phenomena he's come across in his years as as a ranger in Navajoland.

• Where Wolves Don't Die

  Treuer, Anton

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  After a crime involving the family of a boy who has been bullying him and other native students at school, Ezra's family sends him north. He spends Covid quarantine with his Ojibwe grandfather, setting and tending to their family's hunting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Warrior Girl Unearthed

  Boulley, Angeline,

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  Less a sequel, but more of a companion book to Boulley's wildly successful "Firekeeper's Daughter", this story picks up in the same community of Sault Ste Marie, years later. Daunis, the main character from "Firekeeper's Daughter" is an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Little Shell

  a Landless Indian's Journey Home

  La Tray, Chris

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  Chris La Tray's father wouldn't acknowledge his son's native heritage when he was growing up, but Chris always felt drawn to the stories his grandmother told about their background. In adulthood, he pursued his family history, eventually…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By the Fire We Carry

  the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

  Nagle, Rebecca,

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  If "Killers of the Flower Moon" intrigued you, this book takes the struggle for native sovereignty in Oklahoma up to the present, examining a 2020 Supreme Court ruling that undermined tribal rights.

• The Indian Card

  Who Gets to Be Native in America

  Schuettpelz, Carrie Lowry, 1984-

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  How does one prove that they are Native American? Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz takes a look at the complicated world of blood quantum and tribal rolls and why some people who identify as indigenous will never get legal recognition as tribal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Truth According to Ember

  Nava, Danica

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  A rom-com featuring a Chickasaw woman and her adventures navigating life, love and little white lies in Oklahoma City.

• Native Nations

  a Millennium in North America

  Duval, Kathleen

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  This is a scholarly, yet accessible, look at a thousand years of history of North America, focusing on the civilizations that developed differently than the European societies that they later came in contact with.

• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

  Blackhawk, Ned

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  Another historical work that takes the viewpoint that you can't understand modern American without examining native history.

• Blood Memory

  the Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

  Duncan, Dayton

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  This companion book to Ken Burns miniseries on the American Buffalo examines how the Buffalo that native cultures depended on were hunted to almost extinction -- and how and why they survived into the 21st Century.

• My Life

  Growing Up Native in America

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  This collection includes essays by Angeline Boulley, Philip J. Deloria, Eric Gansworth, Kimberly Guerrero, Somah Haaland, Madison Hammond, Nasugraq Rainey Hopson, Trudie Jackson, Princess Daazhraii Johnson, Lady Shug, Ahsaki Baa…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wandering Stars

  Orange, Tommy, 1982-

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  Orange followed up his hit book "There There", with this story that examines not only what happened after that novel ended, but also takes a look at the generational trauma that led to it.

• Fire Exit

  a Novel

  Talty, Morgan, 1991-

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  Morgan Talty is the author of the acclaimed short story collection "Night of the Living Rez". In his debut novel, he looks at a man whose family ties have been broken by nonsensical laws defining who can and cannot live on a nearby…Read moreRead more of this annotation