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

North by Northeast
Dawnland Voices
Micmac Medicines
Facing East From Indian Country
First Peoples of Canada
Here First: Samoset and the Wawenock of Pemaquid, Maine
Women of the Dawn
The Visual Language of Wabanaki Art
Our Beloved Kin
Unsettled Past, Unsettled Future: The Story of Maine Indians
Notes on a Lost Flute
Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: the 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat
Baseball
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
Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
An Upriver Passamaquoddy
We Were Not the Savages

Adult nonfiction by or about North American Tribal Nations

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

Adult fiction by Indigenous authors

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

Picture books by or about Native Americans

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

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

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