Celebrate National Native American Heritage Month

Featuring titles from the American Indian Youth Literature Awards

Picture Books:

• Forever Cousins by Laurel Goodluck (Tsimshian Tribe)- 2024 PB AIYLA Winnter
• A Letter for Bob by Kim Rogers (Wichita)- PB AIYLA Award
• Rock your Mocs by Laurel Goodluck (Tsmishian)- 2024 AIYLA Honor Book
• Berry Song by Michaela Goade(Tlingit & Haida)- 2024 AIYLA Honor Book
• Remember by Joy Harjo (Muscogee)- 2024 AIYLA Honor Book
• Contenders by Traci Sorell (Cherokee)- 2024 AIYLA Honor Book
• Herizon by Daniel Vandever (Navajo)- 2022 PB AIYLA Winner
• Learning My Rights with Mousewoman by Morgan Asoyuf (Ts’msyen Eagle)- 2022 PB AIYLA Honor Book
• Becoming Miss Navajo by Jolyana Begay-Kroupa (Navajo)- 2022 PB AIYLA Honor Book
• I Sang You Down from the Stars by Tasha Spillett (Cree)- 2022 PB AIYLA Honor Book
• Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole)- 2020 PB AIYLA Honor Book
• Birdsong by Julie Flett (Cree-Metis)- 2020 PB AIYLA Honor Book
• Shanyaak’utlaax Salmon Boy- 2018 PB AIYLA Winner
• At the Mountain’s Base by Traci Sorell (Cherokee)
• Caribou Song by Tomson Highway and John Rombough (Cree First Nation)- 2014 PB AIYLA Winner
• Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale by Tim Tingle (Choctaw)- 2008 PB AIYLA Winner
• Little You by Richard Van Camp (Tłı̨chǫ First Nation)- 2016 PB AIYLA Winner
• We are Still Here! By Traci Sorell (Cherokee)- 2022 PB AIYLA Honor Book
• We are Grateful by Traci Sorell (Cherokee)- 2020 PB AIYLA Honor Book

Middle Grade:

• We Still Belong by Christine Day (Upper Skagit)- 2024 MG AIYLA Winner
• Eagle Drums by Nasugraq Rainey Hopson (Inupiaq)- 2024 MG AIYLA Honor Book
• She Persisted: Maria Tallchief by Chelsea Clinton and Christine Day (Upper Skagit)-2024 MG AIYLA Honor Book
• She Persisted: Wilma Mankiller by Chelsea Clinton and Traci Sorell (Cherokee)-2024 MG AIYLA Honor Book
• She Persisted: Deb Haaland by Chelsea Clinton and Laurel Goodluck (Tsimshian)-2024 MG AIYLA Honor Book
• Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young (Navajo)- 2022 MG AIYLA Winner
• The Sea in Winter by Christine Day (Upper Skagit)- 2022 MG AIYLA Honor Book
• I Can Make This Promise by Chistine Day (Upper Skagit)- 2020 MG AIYLA Honor Book
• Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis (Umpqua)- 2020 MG AIYLA Winner
• Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers by Arigon Starr (Kickapoo)- 2018 PB AIYLA Winner
• The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (Chippewa)- 2006 MG AIYLA Winner
• Heroes of the Water Monster by Brian Young (Navajo)In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III (Sicangu Oyate)- 2016 MG AIYLA Winner
• Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee)
• Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan (Plains Cree and Taino)- National Book Award Finalist
• Indigenous Ingenuity by Deidre Havrelock (Cree)

Young Adult

• Rez Ball by Byron Graves (Ojibwe and Lakota)- 2024 YA AIYLA Winner
• Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley (Salt Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa)- 2024 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline (Georgian Bay Metis)-2024 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• Man Made Monsters by Andrea Rogers (Cherokee)-2024 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• Running with Changing Woman by Lorinda Martinez (Lók'aa' Dine'é)-2024 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• Heroes of the Water Monster by Brian Young (Navajo)-2024 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• Apple Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth (Onondaga)- 2022 YA AIYLA Winner
• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Salt Ste. Marie tribe of Chippewa)- 2022 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger (Lipan Apache)- 2022 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• Surviving the City by Tasha Spillet (Cree)- 2020 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• Apple in the Middle by Dawn Quigley (Ojibwe)- 2020 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee)- 2020 YA AIYLA Winner
• #Not Your Princess Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy (Tsilhquot’in) and Mary Beth Leatherdale- 2018 YA AIYLA Winner
• Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me by Lurline Wailana McGregor (Native Hawaiian)- 2010 YA AIYLA Winner
• Dreaming in Indian by Lisa Charleyboy (Tsilhquot’in)
• Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline (Georgian Bay Metis)
• If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth (Onondaga)- 2014 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo) and Jean Mendoza (Nambe Owingeh)
• Notable Native People by Adrienne Keene (Cherokee)- 2022 YA AIYLA Honor Book
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: LIfe in Native America by David Treuer (Ojibwe)
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Spokane)
• Trickster edited by Matt Dembicki
  • Dayton Edmonds (Caddo)
  • John Active (Yup-ik)
  • James and Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
  • David Smith (Winnebago)
  • Eldrena Douma (Pueblo)
  • Michael Thompson (Muscogee)
  • Jonathan Perry (Wampanoag)-Tim Tingle (Choctaw)
  • Elaine Grinnell (Jamestown S’Kallam)
  • Mary Eyley (Cowlitz)
  • Greg Rogers (Choctaw & Chickasaw)
  • Joyce Bear (Muscogee)
  • Beckee Garris (Catawba)
  • Dan Jones (Ojibwe)
  • Eirik Thorsgard (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde)
  • Thomas Cmmings (Hawaiian)
  • Jimm Goodtracks (Ioway & Otoe)
  • Jack Gladstone (Blackfeet)
  • Joseph Stands with Many (Cherokee)
  • John Bear Mitchell (Penobscot Nation)
  • Sunny Dooley (Navajo)