Native American / Indigenous Literature

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Our September List of the Month is dedicated to the literature of indigenous peoples. Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal, Maori. If the literature explores the indigenous experience, and is written (or co-written) by an indigenous author, please add it to the list. Only downvote titles that do not fit this theme, or that are not written by indigenous authors.
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reader517, Cecrow, bibliotecara, MaureenRoy, briannad84, ojy, Tess_W, GrinningCat, MaryBiblio, jhammers905,Muscogulus
Explicacions
Cecrow: Noting however, the author is not indigenous!
Muscogulus : This 1970 book should be no one's first choice for learning Native American history today. Other white authors had written heartfelt books about U.S. cruelty and injustice toward Indians in the past, to little effect. American Indian activists and the shock of the Vietnam War made the public ready to receive this one. It has had a historic impact but it does not provide a comprehensive view of its topic.
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terran, andsoitgoes, ktswjw, sturlington, elkiedee, skaplanolmsted, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707
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LyndaInOregon: Not all Native American battles were fought in the landscape. This historically-based novel follows the fight of a Chippewa tribe to retain its tribal identity against federal legislation in the 1950s
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220 ressenyes
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sipthereader, vwinsloe, Narshkite, jwk, decaturmamaof2, LyndaInOregon, steller0707, jhammers905
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LyndaInOregon: Part coming-of-age, part mystery, part an indictment of the tangle of jurisdictions covering crimes on Indian reservations, Erdrich's novel alternately glows and rages.
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2,516 membres
63 ressenyes
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ktswjw, earthwind, bibliotecara, ahef1963, Murphy-Jacobs, LyndaInOregon, RODNEYP
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LyndaInOregon: This is the piece that exploded Alexie onto the public's mind; the Chicago Tribune's book critic said "it is for the American Indian what Richard Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940”. It's a brilliant, bitter, funny, heartbreaking piece of work and a uniquely American classic.
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2,161 membres
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Euryale, yoyogod, norabelle414, sturlington, skaplanolmsted, ManWithAnAgenda
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yoyogod: A multi award winning horror novel by a Native American writer.
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59 ressenyes
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1,412 membres
45 ressenyes
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158 membres
7 ressenyes
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andersonden, Narshkite, aspirit, tmrps, Ellyist
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aspirit: Aboriginal Australians
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1,021 membres
47 ressenyes
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367 membres
15 ressenyes
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696 membres
49 ressenyes
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54 ressenyes
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736 membres
12 ressenyes
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1,633 membres
101 ressenyes
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1,145 membres
28 ressenyes
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525 membres
36 ressenyes
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541 membres
33 ressenyes
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5,962 membres
303 ressenyes
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sipthereader, ahef1963, MaryBiblio, danbennett, shedgeco, ,Muscogulus ,ojy
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: I can find no evidence that Grann is Native American.
Muscogulus : This is an excellent book of reporting on corruption and murder, but it is not Native American literature.
ojy : Writer is not indigenous/native
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51 ressenyes
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306 membres
8 ressenyes
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2,313 membres
70 ressenyes
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clue, ShannT
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506 membres
33 ressenyes
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tardis, ahef1963
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494 membres
4 ressenyes
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elenchus, LyndaInOregon
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LyndaInOregon: Deloria looks at the life of a typical Sioux woman at the time when contact with white culture was just beginning, concentrating on the quotidian.
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15 ressenyes
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391 membres
2 ressenyes
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lottpoet, Ellyist
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1,756 membres
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1,981 membres
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778 membres
61 ressenyes
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markon, Charon07
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158 membres
16 ressenyes
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154 membres
11 ressenyes
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59 membres
1 ressenya
½ 4.3
2 Members
Fawkrill, tmrps
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1,929 membres
36 ressenyes
½ 3.5
2 Members
clue, bibliotecara
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1,879 membres
78 ressenyes
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2,023 membres
39 ressenyes
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468 membres
42 ressenyes
½ 4.4
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332 membres
9 ressenyes
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2,081 membres
91 ressenyes
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375 membres
25 ressenyes
½ 4.3
2 Members
eo206, GarthW
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235 membres
7 ressenyes
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883 membres
18 ressenyes
3.8
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jwk, LyndaInOregon
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1,318 membres
24 ressenyes
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2 Members
PaperbackPirate, LyndaInOregon
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LyndaInOregon: This is a beautifully crafted collection of nine short stories that are funny and heartbreaking and memorable in their truth and beauty. The protagonists battle the same kinds of demons of loss and love and life and death that we all face.
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112 ressenyes
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Aquila
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1,902 membres
28 ressenyes
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844 membres
15 ressenyes
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catrn
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770 membres
22 ressenyes
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MaureenRoy
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MaureenRoy: The author uncovers evidence that many thousands of years before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across Australia were planting, irrigating and harvesting seeds, and establishing a civilization. Their description as "hunter-gatherers" by whites was a convenient lie to justify dispossession.
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645 membres
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542 membres
3 ressenyes
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505 membres
15 ressenyes
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465 membres
22 ressenyes
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423 membres
8 ressenyes
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eo206
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356 membres
23 ressenyes
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GarthW
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349 membres
19 ressenyes
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markon
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249 membres
8 ressenyes
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207 membres
7 ressenyes
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shedgeco
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195 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 3.7
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135 membres
1 ressenya
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Ling.Lass
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125 membres
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96 membres
4 ressenyes
½ 3.7
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dara85
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78 membres
4 ressenyes
½ 3.6
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LyndaInOregon
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LyndaInOregon: Glancy uses a unique device here, alternating between excerpts from the Lewis & Clark journals with fictional commentary from Sacajawea on the same incidents, revealing the depth and width of the chasm of understanding between the two cultures.
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70 membres
4 ressenyes
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anglemark
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67 membres
4 ressenyes
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Kindleifier
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Kindleifier: Oral history of Crazy Horse as passed down to his closest living relatives
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45 membres
1 ressenya
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aspirit
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aspirit: Poetry from various North American peoples
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28 membres
9 ressenyes
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books6548
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25 membres
1 ressenya
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BLBera
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25 membres
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yoyogod
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yoyogod: An award winning horror novel by a Native American writer.
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19 membres
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Dilara86
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Muscogulus
Explicacions
Muscogulus: A Shawnee philosopher draws on indigenous knowledge while engaging with and refining a Western constructivist frame of reality as "equally privileged, well-made actual worlds." This is a technical yet humane and humorous essay proposing four common themes in American Indian philosophy: relatedness, circularity, expansive personhood, and the semantic power of performance such as dance.
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geemoens
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-pilgrim-
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-pilgrim-: The author is Sami (i.e. of the indigenous people of Northen Finland) as is the protagonist.
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2,475 membres
107 ressenyes
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Hccpsk
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13 ressenyes
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Charon07
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1,158 membres
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13 ressenyes
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871 membres
58 ressenyes
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aspirit
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aspirit: Pacific NW, North American
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719 membres
66 ressenyes
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eo206
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336 membres
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3 ressenyes
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BLBera
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210 membres
13 ressenyes
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lottpoet
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128 membres
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elenchus
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120 membres
2 ressenyes
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GarthW
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91 membres
2 ressenyes
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70 membres
3 ressenyes
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markon
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58 membres
4 ressenyes
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51 membres
3 ressenyes
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Fawkrill
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42 membres
16 ressenyes
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books6548
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21 membres
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hipdeep
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20 membres
3 ressenyes
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Aquila
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906 membres
50 ressenyes
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352 membres
8 ressenyes
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Euryale
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346 membres
10 ressenyes
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