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YA for Native American Heritage Month

November 11, 2020 | jonesw

November has been celebrated as Native American Heritage Month since 1990. Check out a book by a Native American author in the YA section to learn more about the culture, history, and lives of Native teens. 

Fiction

Apple in the middle by 1970- Dawn Quigley
Code talker : a novel about the Navajo marines of World War Two by 1942- Joseph Bruchac
Fire song by Adam Garnet Jones
Give me some truth by illustrator Eric L Gansworth
Hearts unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
House of purple cedar by Tim Tingle
The marrow thieves by 1975- Cherie Dimaline
Moccasin thunder : American Indian stories for today
Soldier sister, fly home by Nancy Bo Flood

Nonfiction

An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people by 1959- Debbie Reese
What the eagle sees : indigenous stories of rebellion and renewal by 1956- Eldon Yellowhorn

Graphic Novels

A girl called Echo. 1, Pemmican Wars by 1977- Katherena Vermette
Moonshot : the indigenous comics collection. Vol. 1
Surviving the city by 1988- Tasha Spillett
This place : 150 years retold