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

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

Adult nonfiction by or about North American Tribal Nations

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

Adult fiction by Indigenous authors

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

Picture books by or about Native Americans

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

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

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