Native American / Indigenous Literature
- List of the Month
- september 2021 (see all)
- Beschrijving
- Our September List of the Month is dedicated to the literature of indigenous peoples. Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal, Maori. If the literature explores the indigenous experience, and is written (or co-written) by an indigenous author, please add it to the list. Only downvote titles that do not fit this theme, or that are not written by indigenous authors.
1
door Tommy Orange
4,369 leden
194 besprekingen
4
Score 50.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 02:14 PM
2
door Sherman Alexie
11,765 leden
798 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 44.27
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 05:12 PM
- 12 Members
- Morphidae, eo206, andsoitgoes, PaperbackPirate, bibliotecara, Yamanekotei, ahef1963, Murphy-Jacobs, skaplanolmsted, RODNEYP, Brandy1411, mrortiz
3
door Robin Wall Kimmerer
4,204 leden
122 besprekingen
½ 4.5
Score 42.84
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 05:22 PM
4
door Dee Brown
9,036 leden
132 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 35.13
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 05:21 PM
- 10 Members
- reader517, Cecrow, bibliotecara, MaureenRoy, briannad84, ojy, Tess_W, GrinningCat, MaryBiblio, jhammers905,Muscogulus
- Verklaringen
- Cecrow: Noting however, the author is not indigenous!Muscogulus : This 1970 book should be no one's first choice for learning Native American history today. Other white authors had written heartfelt books about U.S. cruelty and injustice toward Indians in the past, to little effect. American Indian activists and the shock of the Vietnam War made the public ready to receive this one. It has had a historic impact but it does not provide a comprehensive view of its topic.
5
door Louise Erdrich
2,060 leden
89 besprekingen
4.1
Score 29.14
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 02:15 PM
- 9 Members
- terran, andsoitgoes, ktswjw, sturlington, elkiedee, skaplanolmsted, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707
- Verklaringen
- LyndaInOregon: Not all Native American battles were fought in the landscape. This historically-based novel follows the fight of a Chippewa tribe to retain its tribal identity against federal legislation in the 1950s
6
door Louise Erdrich
3,946 leden
78 besprekingen
3.9
Score 28.77
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 02:16 PM
- 9 Members
- reader517, sturlington, jwk, CtrSacredSciences, Murphy-Jacobs, quondame, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707
7
door Velma Wallis
1,477 leden
59 besprekingen
3.9
Score 27.63
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 04:34 PM
- 8 Members
- reader517, Euryale, andersonden, perennialreader, Tess_W, Murphy-Jacobs, AbigailAdams26, Ellyist
8
door Louise Erdrich
3,956 leden
222 besprekingen
4
Score 25.52
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 02:14 PM
- 8 Members
- sipthereader, vwinsloe, Narshkite, jwk, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707, jhammers905
- Verklaringen
- LyndaInOregon: Part coming-of-age, part mystery, part an indictment of the tangle of jurisdictions covering crimes on Indian reservations, Erdrich's novel alternately glows and rages.
9
door Sherman Alexie
2,531 leden
63 besprekingen
4
Score 22.1
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 02:18 PM
- 7 Members
- ktswjw, earthwind, bibliotecara, ahef1963, Murphy-Jacobs, LyndaInOregon, RODNEYP
- Verklaringen
- LyndaInOregon: This is the piece that exploded Alexie onto the public's mind; the Chicago Tribune's book critic said "it is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940”. It's a brilliant, bitter, funny, heartbreaking piece of work and a uniquely American classic.
10
door Stephen Graham Jones
2,273 leden
101 besprekingen
3.9
Score 19.75
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 05:24 PM
- 6 Members
- Euryale, yoyogod, norabelle414, sturlington, skaplanolmsted, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- yoyogod: A multi award winning horror novel by a Native American writer.
11
door Leslie Marmon Silko
3,588 leden
60 besprekingen
3.8
Score 18.95
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 08:59 AM
- 6 Members
- reader517, sturlington, susanbooks, BLBera, skaplanolmsted, steller0707
12
door Witi Ihimaera
1,423 leden
45 besprekingen
3.9
Score 17.77
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 11:49 PM
- 5 Members
- Aquila, andersonden, Yamanekotei, SouthernKiwi, Ellyist
13
door Anita Heiss
164 leden
7 besprekingen
4
Score 16.87
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 05:21 AM
14
door Thomas King
1,049 leden
48 besprekingen
4.1
Score 16.44
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 08:28 PM
- 5 Members
- Euryale, LDVoorberg, Cecrow, andersonden, barefootsong
15
door David Treuer
374 leden
15 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 13.12
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 01:35 PM
16
718 leden
50 besprekingen
3.9
Score 13.08
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 09:59 PM
- 4 Members
- terran, cbl_tn, quondame, decaturmamaof2
17
door Chief Seattle
1,821 leden
54 besprekingen
3.8
Score 12.49
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 09:05 PM
- 4 Members
- bibliotecara, perennialreader, MaryBiblio, mariaacostaa
18
door David Treuer
754 leden
12 besprekingen
4.2
Score 12.33
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 01:34 PM
- 4 Members
- sipthereader, Narshkite, Hccpsk, RODNEYP
19
door Rebecca Roanhorse
1,664 leden
101 besprekingen
3.9
Score 12.27
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 09:01 AM
- 4 Members
- tardis, lottpoet, susanbooks, quondame
20
door Thomas King
1,157 leden
28 besprekingen
4
Score 11.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
- tardis, LDVoorberg, gypsysmom
21
door Cherie Dimaline
545 leden
36 besprekingen
3.8
Score 9.71
Toegevoegd 2021-09-16, 10:01 AM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda, Charon07
22
door katherena vermette
548 leden
33 besprekingen
4.2
Score 9.4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 06:08 PM
- 3 Members
- lottpoet, vancouverdeb, gypsysmom
23
door David Grann
6,286 leden
315 besprekingen
4.1
Score 9.1
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 08:16 AM
- 5 Members
- sipthereader, ahef1963, MaryBiblio, danbennett, shedgeco, ,Muscogulus ,ojy
- Verklaringen
- Muscogulus : This is an excellent book of reporting on corruption and murder, but it is not Native American literature.ojy : Writer is not indigenous/native
24
door Stephen Graham Jones
1,297 leden
52 besprekingen
4
Score 9.08
Toegevoegd 2021-09-22, 04:47 PM
- 3 Members
- andsoitgoes, ManWithAnAgenda, ShannT
25
- 3 Members
- Aquila, quondame, Pamela_Inskeep
26
door Joseph Bruchac
2,369 leden
71 besprekingen
3.9
Score 7.04
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 01:00 PM
27
door Eden Robinson
521 leden
34 besprekingen
3.8
Score 7.04
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 05:17 PM
28
door Ella Cara Deloria
497 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 7.04
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 02:14 PM
- 2 Members
- elenchus, LyndaInOregon
- Verklaringen
- LyndaInOregon: Deloria looks at the life of a typical Sioux woman at the time when contact with white culture was just beginning, concentrating on the quotidian.
29
- 2 Members
- markon, 37143Birnbaum
30
door Mary Brave Bird
1,214 leden
16 besprekingen
3.8
Score 6.83
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 04:38 PM
- 2 Members
- cej1027, AbigailAdams26
31
door Leslie Marmon Silko
393 leden
2 besprekingen
3.8
Score 6.83
Toegevoegd 2021-09-11, 08:20 AM
32
door Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
1,773 leden
53 besprekingen
4.1
Score 6.73
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 04:58 PM
- 2 Members
- onfiremanofGod, Brandy1411
33
door Louise Erdrich
1,998 leden
64 besprekingen
4.1
Score 6.68
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 05:20 PM
- 2 Members
- terran, perennialreader
34
door Waubgeshig Rice
826 leden
62 besprekingen
3.8
Score 6.68
Toegevoegd 2021-09-13, 12:50 PM
35
- 2 Members
- SouthernKiwi, Charon07
36
door Linda Hogan
157 leden
11 besprekingen
3.9
Score 6.4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-14, 03:34 PM
- 2 Members
- jwk, CtrSacredSciences
37
38
door N. Scott Momaday
1,958 leden
37 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 6.04
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 01:01 PM
- 2 Members
- clue, bibliotecara
39
door Rebecca Roanhorse
1,937 leden
78 besprekingen
4
Score 6.04
Toegevoegd 2021-09-22, 04:44 PM
- 2 Members
- andsoitgoes, PaperbackPirate
40
door Michael Dorris
2,039 leden
39 besprekingen
3.9
Score 5.87
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 08:16 AM
41
door Richard Wagamese
477 leden
42 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Score 5.87
Toegevoegd 2021-09-12, 06:23 PM
- 2 Members
- LDVoorberg, gypsysmom
42
- 2 Members
- jwk, CtrSacredSciences
43
door Louise Erdrich
2,107 leden
91 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 5.5
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 09:46 PM
- 2 Members
- Ling.Lass, perennialreader
44
door David A. Robertson
391 leden
25 besprekingen
4.2
Score 5.5
Toegevoegd 2021-09-24, 10:35 AM
45
door Thomas King
239 leden
7 besprekingen
4
Score 5.29
Toegevoegd 2021-09-12, 06:22 PM
- 2 Members
- LDVoorberg, Romonko
46
- 2 Members
- jwk, LyndaInOregon
47
door Sherman Alexie
1,326 leden
25 besprekingen
4
Score 5.21
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 02:17 PM
- 2 Members
- PaperbackPirate, LyndaInOregon
- Verklaringen
- LyndaInOregon: This is a beautifully crafted collection of nine short stories that are funny and heartbreaking and memorable in their truth and beauty. The protagonists battle the same kinds of demons of loss and love and life and death that we all face.
48
- Member
- Aquila
49
door Quiché Maya
1,925 leden
28 besprekingen
3.8
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-17, 06:13 PM
- Member
- Michael.Rimmer
51
- Member
- MaureenRoy
- Verklaringen
- MaureenRoy: The author uncovers evidence that many thousands of years before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across Australia were planting, irrigating and harvesting seeds, and establishing a civilization. Their description as "hunter-gatherers" by whites was a convenient lie to justify dispossession.
52
door James Welch
664 leden
10 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-16, 05:09 PM
- Member
- miller.max
53
door Hyemeyohsts Storm
554 leden
3 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-22, 04:45 PM
- Member
- DellaWanna
54
door Kent Nerburn
513 leden
15 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-12-08, 01:34 AM
- Member
- Scraphorse
55
door Michelle Good
485 leden
24 besprekingen
4.1
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 06:07 PM
- Member
- vancouverdeb
57
- Member
- markon
59
door Tyson Yunkaporta
259 leden
8 besprekingen
3.9
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-10-13, 02:02 AM
- Member
- leslie.emery
60
door Joshua Whitehead
219 leden
7 besprekingen
4.2
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-24, 08:20 AM
- Member
- shedgeco
61
door Kelli Jo Ford
201 leden
7 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-24, 01:31 PM
- Member
- Pamela_Inskeep
64
door Nancy E. Turner
98 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 11:04 PM
- Member
- dara85
65
- Member
- anglemark
66
door Diane Glancy
82 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 02:13 PM
- Member
- LyndaInOregon
- Verklaringen
- LyndaInOregon: Glancy uses a unique device here, alternating between excerpts from the Lewis & Clark journals with fictional commentary from Sacajawea on the same incidents, revealing the depth and width of the chasm of understanding between the two cultures.
67
70 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-11, 05:11 PM
- Member
- Kindleifier
- Verklaringen
- Kindleifier: Oral history of Crazy Horse as passed down to his closest living relatives
68
door Kenneth Rosen
47 leden
1 bespreking
3.8
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-16, 04:45 PM
69
door Thomas Pecore Weso
28 leden
9 besprekingen
½ 4.6
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-12-15, 03:00 PM
- Member
- books6548
70
- Member
- BLBera
71
74
13 leden
5
Score 4
Toegevoegd 2021-09-17, 04:27 PM
- Member
- Muscogulus
- Verklaringen
- Muscogulus: A Shawnee philosopher draws on indigenous knowledge while engaging with and refining a Western constructivist frame of reality as "equally privileged, well-made actual worlds." This is a technical yet humane and humorous essay proposing four common themes in American Indian philosophy: relatedness, circularity, expansive personhood, and the semantic power of performance such as dance.
77
78
door Angeline Boulley
2,607 leden
114 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-09, 01:35 PM
- Member
- Hccpsk
79
door Joseph Boyden
1,846 leden
87 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 08:59 AM
- Member
- LDVoorberg
80
door Sherman Alexie
1,300 leden
13 besprekingen
4
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2023-07-23, 06:02 PM
- Member
- Charon07
81
door Joseph Bruchac
1,170 leden
36 besprekingen
3.8
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-16, 10:00 AM
- Member
- ManWithAnAgenda
82
door Jr. Vine Deloria
1,150 leden
14 besprekingen
4
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-17, 04:40 PM
- Member
- Muscogulus
83
door Terese Marie Mailhot
895 leden
58 besprekingen
3.9
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-10, 09:58 AM
85
door Joy Harjo
340 leden
6 besprekingen
4.1
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-11, 10:53 AM
- Member
- PaperbackPirate
86
door Debra Magpie Earling
229 leden
9 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-17, 11:34 PM
- Member
- TooLittleReading
87
door Marcie R. Rendon
228 leden
14 besprekingen
3.9
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-11, 08:17 AM
- Member
- lottpoet
89
door Jamake Highwater
132 leden
1 bespreking
½ 3.4
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-14, 03:39 PM
- Member
- elenchus
91
door Jim Northrup
92 leden
2 besprekingen
4
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-08, 04:34 PM
- Member
- AbigailAdams26
92
door Ernestine Hayes
74 leden
3 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-13, 12:50 PM
- Member
- markon
93
door Elizabeth LaPensée
61 leden
4 besprekingen
½ 4.5
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-16, 05:14 PM
- Member
- miller.max
94
door Bernard Assiniwi
52 leden
3 besprekingen
3.1
Score 3.36
Toegevoegd 2021-09-19, 03:14 PM
- Member
- Fawkrill
97
- Member
- Aquila
98
door Darcie Little Badger
952 leden
51 besprekingen
4.1
Score 3.04
Toegevoegd 2021-09-14, 10:07 PM
- Member
- miller.max
100
door Jesse Thistle
357 leden
10 besprekingen
4.2
Score 3.04
Toegevoegd 2021-09-11, 04:41 AM
- Member
- vancouverdeb