Works
You can find the books in this guide at your local library or at an independent bookstore near you. Please go first to an Indigenous-owned bookstore: Birchbark Books in St. Paul, Minnesota or Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing. To order publications from the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, visit their store.
We are also excited to highlight Indigenous-owned publishing houses!
Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing - Black Bears and Blueberries Publishing is a Native owned company that publishes fiction and non-fiction paperback books and ebooks, many with reading levels K-6, on Native topics serving a regional audience, including the Dakotas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. We hope to keep our focus small, publishing several titles a year.
Please reach out to be included on our list!
To learn more about Indigenous children's books, four resources are recommended:
And always, consult the incredible resource at UW Madison, the Cooperative Children's Book Center.
Want an easy to reference list of the books that have been featured on Maadagindan? Look no further, here is an accumulated list of all of the books from Maadagindan.
Follow this link to find a printable copy of the Maadagindan! Start Reading! Book List.
List last updated: January 2025.