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The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. But unfortunately for Anequs, the Anglish conquerors of her land have different opinions…

Set in 1975, Lewis “Shoe” Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation. What he’s not used to, however, is white people being nice to him – – people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family’s poverty from George.

Caught in the middle of two cultures, Apple meets her Indian relatives, shatters Indian stereotypes, and learns what it means to find her place in a world divided by color.

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and that dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America’s Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world.

Carson Mastick is entering his senior year of high school and desperate to make his mark, both on and off the reservation. Starting a rock band and winning Battle of the Bands is his best shot. But things keep getting in the way.

This graphic novel follows Dez and Miikwan, two teen friends who live in Winnipeg. Dez is facing placement in a group home as her grandmother becomes too ill to care for her any longer, while Miikwan’s mother is one of the many

Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Young protagonists meet relatives from far away, mysterious strangers, and sometimes one another (plus one scrappy rez dog).

A lyrical account of three generations of a Chippewa Indian family. Across 14 chapters, seven different narrators relate the particulars of the American Indian experience. 

A collection of essays on American Indian reservation life, being a woman, and family. Campbell Hale interweaves her own experiences within striking portraits of her relatives and ancestors.

This collection gathers poems from throughout Joy Harjo’s twenty-eight-year career, beginning in 1973 with the takeover at Wounded Knee and the beginnings of the rejuvenation of indigenous cultures across the world.

A nonfiction piece acknowledging that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. It offers the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.

Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a fellow young student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

A memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance, assimilation and reverence for tradition.

These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. The stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.