Season 11, Episode 244 Native American Heritage Month, a book rec episode
November is Native American Heritage month so in this episode, we’re sharing some books written by Native American authors. There are so many great texts to choose from if you’re interested in broadening your reading. We bring your memoirs, poetry, Pulitzer Prize winners, and more. When we do these thematic episodes, we enjoy hearing from listeners who have their own recommendations within that theme so be sure to shoot us a message or comment on any of our socials.
Books Mentioned In this Episode:
1- A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
2- Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes
3- Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin Graham
4- A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Streets to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi
5- A Book Recommended by Fellow Booklover Vero Garcia @booksandcoffeemx - All This and More by Peng Shepherd
6- Th Blessing Way and all books in the Leaphorn & Chee series by Tony Hillerman
7- Bad Indians: A Memoir by Deborah Miranda
8- Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival by Velma Wallis
9- House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
10-Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan
11- An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo
12- Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez
13- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
14- The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage edited by M. Elizabeth Weiser, Timothy RW Jordan, and Richard D. Shiels
15- Man Made Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers
16- The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich (Birchbark House series #2)
17- The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
18- Shutter by Ramona Emerson
19- Exposure by Ramona Emerson
20- Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
21- The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
22- There, There by Tommy Orange
23- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
24- The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland
Media mentioned--
1- Reservation Dogs (Hulu, 2021-2023)
2- Dark Winds (AMC and Neflix, 2022 - present)