Welcome! Below are several curated reading lists about North American Indigenous folks, including both fictional and nonfictional books written by or featuring Wabanaki Tribal citizens, Canadian Tribal citizens, Native Americans, and Indigenous peoples generally. With the exception of 1 or 2 reference books, all of these books can be borrowed from the library.

This resource complements the work of The Land We Live On, a group of Freeport organizations committed to engaging with the voices (both present and past) of Wabanaki peoples on the topics of history, identity, culture, environment, and climate.

Adult nonfiction by or about Wabanaki Tribes & Citizens

First Peoples of Canada
Notes on a Lost Flute
North by Northeast
French and Indian Wars in Maine
An Upriver Passamaquoddy
We Were Not the Savages
The Visual Language of Wabanaki Art
Facing East From Indian Country
Indians in Eden: Wabanakis & Rusticators on Maine’s Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s
Here First: Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine
Our Beloved Kin
Baseball
Micmac Medicines
Women of the Dawn
Dawnland Voices
Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: the 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat
Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians
Out of the Depths: Experiences of Mi’kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia

Adult nonfiction by or about North American Tribal Nations

All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
The Technique of North American Indian Beadwork
Notable Native People
A Brave and Cunning Prince : The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
Deer Woman
The Cost of Free Land
Shapes of Native Nonfiction
The Beadworkers
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
Rez Rules: My Indictment of Canada’s and America’s Systemic Racism Against Indigenous Peoples
Atlas of the North American Indian
American Indians: Reclaiming Native Space
Thinning Blood
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Good Friday on the Rez: A Pine Ridge Odyssey
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Sioux Chef
The Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers, and Birch Bark Baskets
Heart Berries: A Memoir
An Indigenous Peoples
New Native Kitchen
You Don
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
The Other Slavery
On The Rez
An American Sunrise: Poems
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
First Houses: Native American Homes and Sacred Structures
North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment
Encyclopedia of American Indian Costume
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Atlas of Indian Nations
Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock
The Plains Indian
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
American Indian Healing Arts

Adult fiction by Indigenous authors

Blasphemy
There There
War Dances
Empire of Wild
Night of the Living Rez
Love After the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
The Only Good Indians
Ten Little Indians
The Heartsong of Charging Elk
Sisters of a Lost Nation
Indian Horse
The Toughest Indian in the World
Stolen
Tread of Angels
Don
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Black Sun
Winter Counts
To Shape a Dragon
Even As We Breathe
The Removed
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
The Night Watchman
The Sentence
A Grandmother Begins the Story
This Town Sleeps
The Berry Pickers

Picture books by or about Native Americans

The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman
We Are Grateful : otsaliheliga
Powwow Day
Keepunumuk : Weeâchumun
Getting to Know the Native American Indian Tribes
Kunu’s Basket: A Story From Indian Island
Hoop Dancer Determination
Forever Cousins
Finding My Dance
The First Blade of Sweetgrass
Josie Dances
Myths and Legends of the World
We Are Water Protectors
Many Hands: A Penobscot Indian Story

Junior & Teen fiction & nonfiction materials by or about Native Americans

Race to the Sun
Healer of the Water Monster
A Snake Falls to Earth
Explore Native American Cultures!
Indian No More
We Are Still Here! : Native American Truths Everyone Should Know
Rez Ball
Elatsoe
The People Shall Continue
Whisper to the Sky
The Rez Detectives
Phoenix ani
Rez Runaway
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
Bird Talk
Powwow: A Celebration Through Song and Dance
Notable Native People
Rez Dogs
Do All Indians Live in Tipis?
If I Ever Get Out of Here
The Sea In Winter
Apple: Skin to the Core
Sisters of Neversea
The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas
Give Me Some Truth
Walking in Two Worlds
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People
The Abenaki
Fire Song
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
My Good Man