November is National Native American Heritage Month. Celebrate and learn about the history of our country’s indigenous people, with an array of books available at BCLS libraries. Here’s a sampling of some nonfiction titles and historical novels to get you started.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Round House - Louise Erdrich
Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
The Only Good Indians: a Novel - Stephen Graham Jones
The Night Watchman - Louise Erdrich
There There - Tommy Orange
Woman of Light: A Novel - Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe - David Maraniss
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Commanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe In American History - S.C. Gwynne
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Life in Native America - David Treuer
Moon of the Crusted Snow: A Novel - Rice Waubgeshig
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West - Hampton Sides
Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot