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

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

Adult nonfiction by or about North American Tribal Nations

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

Adult fiction by Indigenous authors

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

Picture books by or about Native Americans

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

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

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