Aboriginal Resource "Must Have" List 2019/2020
Extensive list of titles with the applicable grade levels and subjects.
Aboriginal Students' Writing
Alcatraz Recollections
The Alcoholic Love Poems
All I Wanted to Do Was Dance: For Diane
American Histories, Native American Narratives
American Indian Literature Appropriate for Secondary and Middle-Level Students
American Indian Placemaking on Alcatraz, 1969-1971
American Indian Women's Poetry: Strategies of Rage and Hope
Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit
Animkee
Antitype
Applying Deloria’s Challenge: Indigenous and Mass Society’s Conceptions of Indian Self-determination
Appropriation of Aboriginal Oral Traditions
Arctic Dreams & Nightmares
An Art of Saying: Joy Harjo's Poetry and the Survival of Storytelling
The Art of Storytelling in Leslie Silko's Ceremony
As I Remember It: Teachings (ɂɘms taɂaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
At the Intersections of Empire: Ceremony, Transnationalism, and American Indian–Filipino Exchange
Aunt Sarah: Woman of the Dawnland: The 108 Winters of an Abenaki Healing Woman
Auntie Angie's Cheyenne Affair
Australian Aboriginal Dreaming Stories: A Chronological Bibliography of Published Works
Authored Animals Creature Tropes in Native American Fiction
The Autobiographings of Mourning Dove
Discusses importance of three books: Cogewea the Half-Blood, Coyotes Stories, and Morning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography.
Bat Steals the Moon
Retelling of traditional story.
Source: Man in the Moon: Sky Tales from Many Lands collected by Alta Jablow and Carl Withers.
Battle of the Northern Lights
Traditional Sami story.
Source: The Storytelling Star by James Riordan.
The Bear-Walker & Other Stories
"Beatty, Reginald Bird-Diary & Correspondence"
"Becoming Minor": Reading The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
"Being a Half-Breed": Discourses of Race and Cultural
Syncreticity in the Works of Three Metis Women Writers
Being an Indigenous CRC in the Era of the TRC #Notallitscrackeduptobe
Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture, Language and Identity
"The Belly of This Story": Storytelling and Symbolic Birth
in Native American Fiction
Between Heaven and Earth: The Art of Alex Jacobs
Between Two Points : Drinking From a Hose
Between Voice and Text: Bicultural Negotiation in the Contemporary Native American Novel
Beyond False Boundaries
Beyond the Nineteenth Century: Thomas King's Decolonization of the Literary Image of the Native
Bigtime (at Chaw’se Sowwa)
The Bingocentric Worlds of Michel Tremblay and Tomson Highway: Les Belles-Soeurs vs. The Rez Sisters
Looks at the parallels between two plays in terms of the subject matter and the dramatic techniques used. For example, bingo, is used as a symbol and illustration of women's consumerism and of the spiritual emptiness in their lives.
Black Elk and Flaming Rainbow: Personal Memories of the Lakota Holy Man and John Neihardt
Black Elk Speaks: A Native American View of Nineteenth-Century American History
Black Hawk in Translation: Indigenous Critique and Liberal Guilt in the 1847 Dutch Edition of Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
Blood Thirsty Savages
Book Guide for How Raven Got His Crooked Nose: An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable Retold by Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater, Illustrated by Mindy Dwyer
Recommended for Grade 3 students.
The Book of Jessica: The Healing Circle of a Woman's Autobiography
Discusses a play, The Book of Jessica, that illustrates the struggle women have in understanding what being "a woman" means, including across the barriers of race, culture, privilege and age.