Native American & Indigenous Communities

Provides background on how racism has grown due to social, economic, geographic, and political conditions. Available via CREDO.

A collection of freely available University of Arizona book titles (~30) focused on topics related to the southwestern United States.

Combines anthropological theory and ethnography noting key ideas, arguments, and the history of the discipline. Available via CREDO.

One of those views is of American Indians in California written Dwight Dutschke of the Santa Barbara Indian Center. This online book is divided into time periods; “a commentary on those events, procedures, laws, and situations that confronted and greatly affected California Indians and their ability to survive once Europeans arrived.”

Browse Native North American literature by primarily contemporary. Browse by author name, book title, or tribe for authors associated with a specific tribe.

Provides short summaries of recommended authors including some of their key works.

Over 50 titles published by UOP including fiction and non-fiction (critical & comparative studies). Summaries about each book and author are provided.

In this list, Baska includes graphics novels, single comics, and anthologies with stories. Entries includes publisher summaries and the compiler’s own perspective on why the comic is so good!

Gates recommends a handful of books, many of them award winners, related to the perspectives and struggles of Native peoples.

For each title, a summary is provided along with an Age Level.

This guide lists almost 20 Native American Fiction Writers and their works. These recommendations are made by MFA Creative Writing students at the IAIA.

Bibliographies of Native American books and resources for teachers and librarians. Lists include brief book summaries and age suggestions. Leitich Smith is an award-winning writer of childrens’ and young adult literature and citizen of the Muscogee Nation.

A rich resource providing “critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children’s and young adults books” established by Dr. Debbie Reese and co-edited by Dr. Jean Mendoza.