As They Speak: Native Voices in Today’s Literature –
Virtual Book Club
Looking to expand your reading list and discuss a variety of issues and topics important to Native people? Please join our digital book club, As They Speak: Native Voices in Today’s Literature. Based on a variety of topics and featuring a range of genres, all of the books we will be reading have been written by contemporary Native authors.
Our book club is a free event, but donations are greatly appriciated. To sign up for a book club meeting, visit our events page!
Reading List
Graphic Novels/Comic Books
A Girl Named Echo by Katherena Vermette (Author), Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator), Donovan Yaciuk (Inker)
If I Go Missing by Brianna Jonnie (Author), Nahanni Shingoose Neal Shannacappo (Illustrator)
Picture Books
Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! By Art Coulson (Author), Madelyn Goodnight (Illustrator)
Sharice’s Big Voice by Sharice Davids (Author), Nancy K. Mays (Author), Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (Illustrator)
The Wolf Mother (Mothers of Xsan, 5) (Volume 5) by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson (Author), Natasha Donovan (Illustrator)
The Frog Mother (Mothers of Xsan, 4) (Volume 4) by Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson (Author), Natasha Donovan (Illustrator)
Mii maanda ezhi gkendmaanh by Brittany Luby (Author), Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckly (Illustrator)
On The Trapline by Julie Flett
Jingle Dancer by Cynthis Leitich Smith
The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross by Traci Sorell
I Sang you down from the stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner
Early Chapter Books
Jo Jo Makoons by Dawn Quigley
Indian Shoes by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Author), Marybeth Timothy (Illustrator)
Middle Grades
Native Women Changing their Worlds by Patricia Cutright
Chief Bender’s Burden By Tom Swift
The case of the burgled bundle by Michael Hutchinson
Sisters of the neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young
Dreaming in Indian; Contemporary Native American Voices Edited by Lisa Charleyby, Mary Beth Leatherdale
Indian No More – Charlene Willing McManis, Traci Sorell
High School
The dine reader edited by Esther G. Belin, Jeff Berghund, Connie A. Jacobs, and Anthony K. Webster
Firekeepers daughter by Angeline Boulley
Rain is not my Indian name by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Everything you wanted to know about Indians by Anton Treuer
Fire song – Adam Garnet Jones
the marrow thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Dreaming in Indian; Contemporary Native American Voices edited by Lisa Charleyboy (Editor), Mary Beth Leatherdale (Editor)
The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo
If I Ever Get Out Of Here – Eric Gansworth
Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage – In This Together
Cross Over & Adult Books
When the light of the world was subdued by Joy Harjo
There there by Tommy Orange*
An American sunrise by Joy Harjo*
Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo
The inconvenient Indian; A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King*
where the dead sit talking– Brandon Hobson
Shapes of Native Nonfiction; Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers – Elissa Washuta (Editor), Theresa Warburton (Editor)
The Night Watchmen – Louise Erdrich
The Lesser Blessed – Richard Van Camp
Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women’s Theater– Jaye T. Darby (Editor), Stephanie Fitzgerald (Editor)
One Native Life by Richard Wagamese*
Savage Kin by Margaret Bruchac
The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen*
*previous book club book