November Displays

November:

• Native American Heritage Month

This is a good time to audit your collection about the Native Americans.  

Places to look:

• 92 Biography

  • Crazy Horse

  • Sacajawea

  • Sequioyah

  • Who Was Sitting Bull

• 920 Collected Biography - Who Were the Navajo Code Talkers

• 940.54 Navajo Code Talkers

• 970.01 Ancient America

• 974.4 Native American Tribes

• 978 Western U. S. 

• 979 California Missions

• 745 Crafts

• 306 American Indian Families

• 641 American Indian Foods

• 299 American Indian Mythology

• 394 American Indian Festivals

• 394 American Indian Games

• 394 Holidays - Thanksgiving

• 393 Burial Customs - Battle Fields and Burial Grounds:  The Indian Struggle to protect Ancestral Graves in the United States

• 398.2 Native American Folktales

Fiction Books with a Native American Theme

Middle School

Author,  Title

Alexie, Sherman The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

Bruchac, Joseph 

Code Talker

Two Roads:  A Creek boy in search of his place in the world

Rez Dogs

Cooney, Caroline The Ransom of Mercy Carter

Erdrich, Louise The Birchbark House

Hobbs, Will Beardance, Kokopelli’s Flute, Ghost Canoe

Karr, Kathleen Worlds Apart

Mikaelson, Ben Touching Spirit Bear 

O’Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins, Zia, Sing Down the Moon   

Paulsen, Gary The Night the White Deer Died, Canyons

Rinaldi, Ann My heart is on the ground : the diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux girl (Dear America Series)

Speare, Elizabeth George  Sign of the Beaver

High School

Bennet, James Dakota Dream

Brooks, Martha Bone Dance 

Bruchac, Joseph Bearwalker

Castaneda, Omar Among the Volcanoes

Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans

Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Durvin, William Wintering 

Hillerman, Tony The Sinister Pig, The Ghostway

Jackson, Helen Hunt Ramona

Keehn, Sally I am Regina 

Laxalt, Robert Dust Devils

Lipsyte, Robert Warrior Angel

Matcheck, Diane The Sacrifice

Preston, Douglas The Relic 

Rostkowski, Margaret Moon Dancer

Sandoz, Mari The Horsecatcher

Wood, Nancy Thunderwoman:  A Mythic Novel of the Pueblos

See Also:

• For up to date fiction books on Native Americans, see the Social Justice Books website of recommendations. 

•  The American Indians in Children's Literature site by Dr. Debbie Reese 

• Escape into History with Historical Fiction

• Cookbooks, “What’s Cooking?”

• Library Staff Recommendations “Gobble up a Good Book”