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

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

Adult nonfiction by or about North American Tribal Nations

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

Adult fiction by Indigenous authors

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

Picture books by or about Native Americans

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

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

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