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Baby Rattlesnake (Chickasaw)
Author: Ted Ata
Willful Baby Rattlesnake throws tantrums to get his rattle before he’s ready, but he misuses it and learns a lesson. Ages 5-8
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Bad River Boys: a Meeting of the Lakota Sioux with Lewis and Clark
Author: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
A group of young Dakota Indians encounters members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Ages 6 – 10. J SNEVE
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Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story
Author: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
Grizzly Bear, Wren, Snake, Frog, Eagle and Beaver help Coyote in his plan to steal fire from the sky world. A story from the Salish people of Montana told by Salish elder Johnny Arlee with illustrations by tribal artist Sam Sandoval reflects the unique voice of the Salish Nation. Ages 4 - 7
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Birchbark House
Author: Louise Erdrich
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. Ages 9-12
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Black Elk’s Vision: A Lakota Story
Author: S.D. Nelson
Lakota-Oglala medicine man Black Elk is an important and unique historical figure. This biography respectfully covers his life, from his childhood vision to beware the "Wha-shi-choo," to his message of hope to his people, to his travels with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, to being injured at the Wounded Knee massacre. Ages 8- 12
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Bull Trout’s Gift (Salish)
Author: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
The Jocko River flows through the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana. Readers learn about the history and culture of the river and its meaning in Native life, tradition, and religion. Ages 8- 12
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Chickadee (Ojibwa)
Author: Louise Erdrich
The latest book in the award-winning Birchbark House series. In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home. Ages 7 – 12. J ERDRICH
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Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood
Author: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Virginia’s father is the Episcopal priest on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation circa 1940. Virginia and her brother are last to receive anything from the charity box on account of being the priest’s children. Virginia has outgrown her winter coat and longs for the gray fur coat in the charity box. Ages 6-10
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Coyote Solstice Tale
Author: Thomas King
A little girl leads Coyote and his friends to the mall. Coyote has never been to the mall before. He happily joins in the holiday rush by filling a shopping cart with stuff, only to discover that he has to have money to pay for them. In the end, Coyote learns that expensive gifts could never be as important as friendship and good cheer. Ages 4-9
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Crossing Bok Chitto; a Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom
Author: Tim Tingle
In the 1800’s, a Choctaw girl befriends a slave boy from a Mississippi plantation across the great river and when she learns his mother has been sold, she helps his family cross the river to freedom. Ages 5-8
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Fatty Legs (Inuit)
Author: Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
The true story of an Inuit girl who at age 8, volunteers to leave her village to attend residential school. Margaret must counter humiliation, and cruelty with brave determination and human dignity. Ages 8 - 16
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Girl Who Helped Thunder; Native American folktales
Author: James Bruchac
A rich traditional collection of Native American stories from across North America. The northwest legends are from the Yakama, Salish and Wasco. Ages 7-12
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Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message (Iroquois/Six Nation)
Author: Chief Jake Swamp
Based on ceremonial tradition of the Six Nation (Iroquois) people, Mohawk Chief Jake Swamp, has simplified this invocation of thanks. The inspirational message offers blessings to the natural world. Ages 5 - 9
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Indian Shoes (Seminole/Cherokee)
Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges. Set in Chicago, this story is told in six stand alone chapters. Ages 7 – 12. J SMITH
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Island of the Blue Dolphins (Nicoleño)
Author: Scott O’Dell
Records the courage and self-reliance of a Nicoleño girl who lived alone for eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe emigrated and she was left behind. Newbery Award winner. Ages 9-12
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Jim & Me: a Baseball Card Adventure (Sac and Fox Nation)
Author: Dan Gutman
Joe’s vintage baseball card of Jim Thorpe takes him back in time to Thorpe’s first season with 1925 New York Giants. Ages 9-12
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Jingle Dancer (Muscogee/Creek)
Author: Cynthia Smith
Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relations so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Ages 5-8
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Journal of Jesse Smoke: a Cherokee Boy
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Ages 9-12
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Miser on the Mountain (Nisqually)
Author: Nancy Luenn
Retells the Nisqually story of a greedy man who climbs Mount Rainier, is punished for his greed by a slumber of many years, and awakens to discover the true value of family and community. Ages 6 -10
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Rabbit's Snow Dance: a Traditional Iroquois Story
Author: James & Joseph Bruchac
A whimsical wintertime fable finds Rabbit using a traditional Iroquois drum and song to perform a snow dance, irritating his fellow creatures by causing incremental snowfall amounts well into the spring. Ages 3 – 7.
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Rattlesnake Who Went To School (Cherokee)
Author: Craig Strete
On his first day of school, Crowboy pretends he is a rattlesnake, but then he meets a girl in his class who wants to be a rattlesnake too. Ages 5-8
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Red Bird Sings (Sioux)
Author: Gina Capaldi and Q.L. Pearce
Born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Sa (known as Redbird), left her home at age eight to go to boarding school. This recounts her life journey as a music teacher, composer, musician, author and public speaker as she uses her many talents to lobby for Native American rights. Ages 8 - 12
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Saltypie: A Choctow Journey from Darkness into Light
Author: Tim Tingle
Choctaw author Tim Tingle tells the true story of his family. The account tells of Tingle’s grandmother, Mawmaw, as an orphan at an Indian boarding school, the discrimination she encountered living in Texas, and finally the surgery that would restore her vision. Ages 5 – 12
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Secret of the Dance Story (Kwaka’ka’waka)
Author: Andrea Spalding
Set in the Northwest in 1935, a Native American boy tells the story of a forbidden potlatch. Ages 5-8
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Sees Behind the Trees
Author: Michael Doris
“Sees Behind the Trees” is the name of a boy in Pre-Columbian America. The boy has poor vision but with the help of his mother and the village elder, Gray Fire, he has the ability to see what can’t be seen. Ages 9-12
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Shin-Chi’s Canoe (Salish)
Author: Nicola Campbell
Shin-chi tries to hold on to his identity and culture at a forced government boarding school for Native children. Through cruel treatment, hunger and separation from his sister, he keeps a forbidden miniature canoe carved by his father. Ages 6 – 12
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Sign of the Beaver (Penobscot)
Author: Elizabeth Speare
In the 1700’s, a boy is left to guard his family’s home in the wilderness. Fortunately, a Penobscot boy befriends him and teaches him many survival skills. Ages 9-12
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Skeleton Man (Mohawk)
Author: Joseph Bruchac
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange “great-uncle”, Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even her life. Ages 9-12
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Stranger At Home (Inuit)
Author: Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
The sequel to Fatty Legs, this is the true story of 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak. Home from school for the first time in two years, her mother doesn’t recognize her. Margaret must relearn her language and her family's way of living, discovering the importance of remaining true to the ways of her people -- and herself. Ages 8-16
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Thanks to the Animals (Passamaquoddy)
Author: Allen Sockabasin
Set in 1900 during the Passamaquoddy annual migration to their winter home in Maine, Baby Zoo Sap falls off the family bobsled and is left behind. The animals gather to protect him until his loving father returns to find him. A sweet bedtime story. Ages 4-7
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When Turtle grew feathers: a folktale from the Choctaw nation
Author: Tim Tingle
Choctaw author Tim Tingle retells a story similar to Aesop’s tortoise and hare. Did Rabbit really race Turtle? And why is Turkey wearing Turtle’s shell? An excellent read-aloud. Ages 4 - 7
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