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Here you can find a variety of books to celebrate and learn more about Native Peoples. Some books have videos, others are available online, at your school, at the local library, or if you are in Ventura County, by contacting the coordinator of the Ventura County Indian Education Consortium.

GRADES K-2

Jingle Dancer

Cynthia Letich Smith

We Are Grateful: Osaliheliga

Traci Sorrell

Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock

Aslan Tudor

The People Shall Continue

Simon J. Ortiz

Mama, Do You Love Me?

Barbara M Joose

Greet the Dawn: The Lakota Way

S.D. Nelson

Sky Sisters

Jan Bourdeau Waboose

Wild Berries

Julie Flett

The Rainbow Bridge

Audrey Wood

The Rainbow Bridge

Julie Tumamait- storytelling

When I Was Eight

Christy Jordan-Fenton

Shi-shi-etko

Nicola I. Campbell

Stolen Words

Melanie Florence

When We Were Alone

David Alexander Robertson

Buffalo Bird Girl: A Hidatsa Story

S.D. Nelson

The Star People: A Lakota Story

S.D. Nelson

Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes

How Chipmunk Got His Stripes

Joseph Bruchac

#Indigenous Reads by Indigenous Writers

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Mission to Space

John Herrington

Hiawatha and the Peacemaker

Robbie Robertson

Rock and Roll Highway: The Robbie Robertson Story

Sebastian Robertson

Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path

Joseph Bruchac

The Sugar Bear: A Barbareno Chumash Tale

Mary Yee

We are Water Protectors

Read aloud by author Carole Lindstrom

We Are Water Protectors

Carole Lindstrom

Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message

Jake Swamp (read aloud by author)

The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush

Tommie dePaolo

Read aloud by Lisa Joe

Sharice's Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman

Sharice Davids, Nancy K. Mays, Joshua Mangeshig

At the Mountain's Base

Author: Traci Sorell

Illustrator: Weshoyot Alvitre

If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving

Chris Newell

History Smashers: The Mayflower

Kate Messner

GRADES 3-5

Fatty Legs

Christy Jordan-Fenton

In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse

Joseph Marshall

Crossing Bok Chitto

Tim Tingle

The Birchback House

Louise Erdich

Lands of our Ancestors

Gary Robinson

Indian Shoes

Cynthia Leticich Smith

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Sories for Kids

Cynthia Leitich Smith

My Powerful Hair

Carol Lindstrom

Coyote Rescues Hawk

Alan Salazar

GRADES 6-8

He Who Dreams

Melanie Florence

How I Became a Ghost

Tim Tingle

Talking Leaves

Joseph Bruchac

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Sherman Alexie

Fighter in Velvet Gloves

Annie Boochever, Roy Peratrovich

Notable Native People

Adrienne Keene

I Can Make this Promise

Christine Day

Two Roads

Joseph Bruchac

Stone River Crossing

Tim Tingle

GRADES 9-12

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

Edited by Joy Harjo

Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question

Poem by Diane Burns

The Round House

Louise Erdrich

The Night Watchman

Louise Erdrich

All the Real Indians Died Off

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

We Are the Land: A History of Native California

Damon Akins and William Bauer

There, There

Ni aquí, ni allí

Tommy Orange

The Missing

Melanie Florence

Rez Runaway

Melanie Florence

No Name

Tim Tingle

The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline

Hearts Unbroken

Cynthia Leitich-Smith

House of Purple Cedar

Tim Tingle

If I Ever Get Out of Here

Eric Gansworth

Pipestone: My Life in an Indian Boarding School

Adam Fortunate Eagle

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmer

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

Lisa Charleyboy

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: For Young People

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

An Afro Indigenous History of the United States

Kyle T. Mays

Black-Indigenous Youth Advancing Social Justice

National Museum of the American Indian (speaker's panel)

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley

Honoring Native Warriors

Gary Robinson

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