* My personal favorites
-- Specifically Canadian Selections
(Nation of Story) - (Nation of Author)
A First Clay Gathering - Nora Naranjo-Morse (Pueblo)
American Indian Festivals - Jay Miller (Deleware)
American Indian Families - Jay Miller (Deleware)
Children of Native America Today - Yvonne Wakim Dennis (Cherokee-Arab)
Children of the Longhouse (Mohawk) - Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
Clambake: A Wampanaog Tradition - Russell Peters (Wampanoag)
Columbus Day: Poems, Drawings and Stories about America Indian Life and Death in the Nineteen-Seventies - Jimmie Durham
Daughters of the Buffalo Woman: Maintaining the Tribal Faith – Beverly Hungry Wolf (Blackfoot)
Drumbeat Heartbeat: A Celebration of Pow Wow - Susan Braine (Assiniboine)
Eagle Drum: On the Pow Wow Trail with a Young Grass Dancer (Pend Oreille) - Robert Crum (not Native)
Eagle Song – Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
* Famous Native North Americans – Bobbie Kalman (Ed.)
-- Four Ancestors: Stories, Songs, and Poems From North America – Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
Imagine Living Here: This Place is Cold – Vicki Cobb (not Native). She also has “This Place is…” Wet, Dry, High, Crowded, Wild, and Lonely.
Indian Boyhood – Charles A. Eastman (Hakadah – Sioux)
Ininatig’s Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking – Laura Waterman Wittstock (Anishanabe)
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O'Dell (not Native).
Jingle Dancer – Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee - Creek)
* Life in a Plains Camp – Bobbie Kalman (Ed.)
-- Mama, Do You love Me? (Inuit) – Barbara Joosse (not Native)
Many Nations: An Alphabet of Native America – Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
My Grandmother’s Cookie Jar (Plains) – Montzalee Miller
My Indian Boyhood – Luther Standing Bear (Lakota – Sioux)
* Nations of the Southwest – Bobbie Kalman (Ed.) also see: Nations of the Southeast, Plains, and Eastern Great Lakes
North American Indian Sign Language (Great Plains) – Karen Liptak (not Native)
Northwoods Cradle Song: From a Menominee Lullaby – Douglas Wood (not Native)
Places of Power – DeMunn, Michael (Seneca-Onondaga Iroquois)
Pow Wow – Linda Coombs (Wampanoag)
Sing Down the Moon – Scott O'Dell (not Native)
Soaring Spirits: Conversations with Native American Teens – Karen Gravelle (not Native)
-- Songs for Survival: Songs and Chants from Tribal Peoples Around the World – Nikki Siegen-Smith (not Native)
Tales of Black Fish Bear: Mystery of the Tides (Cape Cod) – Kathy & Brian Davis (not Native)
Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina – Maria Tallchief (Osage)
The Arrow Over the Door – Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
The Birchbark House – Louise Erdrich (Objibwa)
The Sacred harvest: Ojibway Wild Rice Gathering – Gordon Regguinti (Objibway)
The Trail of Tears (Cherokee) – Conrad Stein (not Native)
The Unbreakable Code (Navajo) – Sara Hoagland Hunter (not Native)
Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons – Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
This Land is Your Land – Woody Guthrie (not Native)
Turtle Island ABC – Gerald Hausman (not Native)
Walk Two Moons – Sharon Creech
Water Sky (Alaskan) - Jean Craighead George (not Native). She has many books about this region.
Weaving a California Tradition: A Native American Basketmaker – Linda Yamane (Ohlone)
When Clay Sings (Southwest) – Byrd Baylor
-- With love, to Earth’s Endangered Peoples – Virginia Kroll
Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West – Dee Brown
* Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (adapted) – Dee Brown
Ininatig’s Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugarmaking – Laura Waterman Wittstock
Northwoods Cradle Song; From a Menominee Lullaby – Douglass Wood
Weaving A California Tradition: A Native Basket Maker – Linda Yamane