Books that tell our stories
- ashleylpatrick
- Aug 14, 2023
- 3 min read
Its important to be intentional about the type of content you consume in your life, even with the stories you read. Here is a list of resources I've compiled over the years of Indigenous authors for all age groups with links and specifically those story tellers from North Carolina in blue. Enjoy!
Children's Books
It’s Lumbee Homecoming Y’all! Nakoma’s Greatest Tradition (Lumbee Children Stories) by Dr. Leslie Anne Locklear (Author), Christina Pacheco (Author), Raven Dial-Stanley (Illustrator), Evynn Richardson (Illustrator)
Whoz Ya People? by Brittany Danielle Hunt (Author), Bea Brayboy (Author)
We Are Water Protectors, by Carole Lindstrom
Fry Bread, Kevin Noble Maillard
We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga; by Traci Sorell
We are still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should know, by Traci Sorell
Bowwow Powwow, by Brenda Child
Stolen Words, by Melanie Florence
When We Were Alone, by David Robertson
When I was Eight, by Christy Jordan-Fenton
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker, by Robbie Robertson
How The World Was Made - A Cherokee Story Paperback – June 14, 2015 by Brad Wagnon (Author), Alex Stephenson (Author)
The First Fire: A Cherokee Story Paperback – Picture Book, August 27, 2020 by Brad Wagnon (Author), Alex Stephenson (Illustrator)
The First Strawberries (Picture Puffin Books) Paperback – Picture Book, June 1, 1998 by Joseph Bruchac (Adapter), Anna Vojtech (Illustrator)
Firekeeper's Daughter, by Angeline Boulley (Author)
The Star People: A Lakota Story, by S. D. Nelson (Author)
Teen Books
I Am Not a Number, by Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis
Sugar Falls: A residential School Story, by David A Robertson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Paperback – Illustrated, April 1, 2009
by Sherman Alexie (Author), Ellen Forney (Illustrator)
Brown Skin Girl: An Indian-American Woman's Magical Journey From Broken To Beautiful Paperback – February 7, 2020 by Mytrae Meliana (Author)
Adult Books
Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation, by Malinda Maynor Lowery (Author)
The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians, by Adolph L. Dial (Author), David Eliades (Author)
Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians, by Arvis Locklear Boughman (Author), Loretta O. Oxendine (Author)
From Princess to Chief: Life with the Waccamaw Siouan Indians of North Carolina, by Priscilla Freeman Jacobs (Author), Patricia Barker Lerch (Author, Introduction)
Here are my Peeps - Granddaddy Fletcher Lynch: The Story of the Lynch and Richardson Families of the Haliwa-Saponi, as told thru their Granddaughter's Eyes by by A. Kay Richardson Oxendine (Author)
Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century (Indians of the Southeast (Paperback)) Paperback – February 1, 1993
by John R. Finger (Author)
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 1988
by John Ehle (Author)
HEART BERRIES BY THERESE MARIE MAILHOT
THE GRASS DANCER BY SUSAN POWER
MY NAME IS SEEPEETZA BY SHIRLEY STERLING
AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES BY ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
There There by Tommy Orange
The Things She’s Seen, by Ambelin Kwaymullina and Ezekiel Kwaymullina
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, by David Treuer
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
LAKOTA WOMAN BY MARY CROW DOG
AN AMERICAN SUNRISE: POEMS BY JOY HARJO
TRAIL OF LIGHTNING BY REBECCA ROANHORSE
BETRAYAL AT BUFFALO RANCH BY SARA SUE HOKLATUBBE
WHERE THE DEAD SIT TALKING BY BRANDON HOBSON
SIXKILLER BY LEE FRANCIS, ILLLUSTRATED BY WESHOYOT ALVITRE
SACRED SMOKES BY THEODORE C. VAN ALST
COGEWEA, THE HALF-BLOOD BY MOURNING DOVE
HER LAND, HER LOVE BY EVANGELINE PARSONS YAZZIE
New Poets of Native Nations edited by Heid E. Erdrich
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
Trial of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Savage Conversations by LeAnne Howe
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright
Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
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