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

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

Adult nonfiction by or about North American Tribal Nations

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

Adult fiction by Indigenous authors

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

Picture books by or about Native Americans

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

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

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