In Stephen Graham Jones’ book, The Only Good Indians, the reader will follow the story of four Native American men as they navigate the aftermath of a disturbing event that uproots their lives. Staked by a mysterious entity hell-bent on revenge, they will have to face the things they have left behind in this psychological horror story. 

This book is recommended for adult audiences.

In this post-apocalyptic world, people are no longer capable of dreaming while they sleep and this dreamlessness is beginning to generate a widespread madness. However, a “cure” is found in the marrow of North American Indigenous people, the only ones left still able to dream. As the desperate struggle for marrow pushes “recruiters” to search out for donors, willing or otherwise, our protagonist and his companions seek out loved ones and a refuge. 

This book is recommended for young adult audiences.

Explore this collection of 135 home-tested, mouth-watering "original local" recipes, paired with anecdotes from tribal activists, food researchers, families, and chefs.A chapter devoted to wild rice, or manoomin, makes clear the crucial role it plays in Native cultures. Similar attention is lavished on the tallest of the Three mandamin, or corn. The bounty of the region's lakes and streams—walleye, whitefish, and more—inspire flavorful combinations and fierce protection of resources. Sections on vegetables and beans, herbs and tea, and maple and berries offer insight from a broad representation of regional tribes, including Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Potawatomi, and Mandan gardeners and harvesters.

The innovative recipes collected here—from Maple Baked Cranberry Beans to Three Sisters Salsa, from Manoomin Lasagna to Black and Blue Bison Stew—will inspire home cooks not only to make better use of the foods all around them but also to honor the storied heritage they represent. 

This book is recommended for young adult audiences.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on “a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” .

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.  

This book is recommended for young adult audiences.