New and Forthcoming Titles on Indigenous Peoples – Publishers Weekly

The following is a list of books for adults and for young readers focused on the history, culture, survival, and contemporary lives and storytelling of Indigenous peoples.

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ADULT:

ATRIA

From the Ashes: My Story of Being Indigenous, Homeless, and Finding My Way

Jesse Thistle, June

The Mtis-Cree authors memoir of overcoming trauma, prejudice, and addiction as he struggles to find a way back to himself and his Indigenous culture.

BISON

Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice

Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys, June

Spotlights four leadersLaDonna Allard, Jasilyn Charger, Lisa DeVille, and Kandi Whiteand their fight against the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline that made world headlines in 2016.

BLACK PRIVILEGE

State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built

Tamika D. Mallory, out now

An in-depth, intersectional look at America's history of colonialism and systemic racism, offering a hopeful look to the future and tangible solutions for dismantling white supremacist structures.

CELADON

Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana

Abe Streep, Sept.

Follows a high school basketball team on a reservation in the American West along with their teammates, coaches, and families, as they balance the pressures of adolescence, shoulder the dreams of their community, and chart their own individual courses for the future.

COMMON NOTIONS

Feminicide and Global Accumulation: Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism

Edited by Silvia Federici, Liz Mason-Deese, and Susana Draper, Aug.

Gathers stories, memories, and experiences of struggles against the murder and assassination of women and violence in all its forms, based on the first-ever International Forum on Feminicide among Ethnicized and Racialized Groups.

HARPER

By the Light of Burning Dreams

David Talbot and Margaret Talbot, June

Uses exclusive interviews, original documents, and archival research to explore critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of iconoclastic leaders of the twentieth century radical movement, including Russell Means and the warriors of Wounded Knee.

The Taking of Jemima Boone: The True Story of the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America

Matthew Pearl, Oct.

Explores the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boones daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation.

HARPER PERENNIAL

Horse Girls

Halimah Marcus, Aug.

An essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term horse girl, broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds, including "Unconquered," an essay by Braudie Blais-Billie about how horses bridged a connection between her Seminole and Quebecois heritage.

HENRY HOLT

Ridgeline: A Novel

Michael Punke, June

An account, based on real people and events, of the violence and horror of a Wyoming massacre that presaged the Battle of Little Big Horn.

HERALD

The Land Is Not Empty: Following Jesus in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery

Sarah Augustine, June

The author, a Pueblo (Tewa) woman, reframes the colonization of North America as she investigates ways that the Doctrine of Discoverya set of laws rooted in the 15th century that gave Christian governments the moral and legal right to seize lands they discoveredcontinues to devastate Indigenous cultures, and the planet itself, as it justifies exploitation of both natural resources and people.

HIGHWATER

Splxm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence

Nicola I. Campbell, Sept.

The authors memoir as an intergenerational survivor of Indian Residential Schools, and her journey of overcoming adversity and colonial trauma to find strength and resilience through creative works and traditional perspectives of healing, transformation, and resurgence.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT

When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky: A Novel

Margaret Verble, Oct.

In 1926 Nashville, Two Feathers, a death-defying young Cherokee horse-diver on loan to Glendale Park Zoo from a Wild West show, must get to the bottom of a mystery that spans centuries.

INHABIT MEDIA

What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile

Larry Audlaluk, out now

The author describes his familys struggle to survive following the High Arctic Relocation of the 1950s in which Inuit families were relocated by the Canadian government to Grise Fiord, one of the coldest inhabited places in the world. Juxtaposed with excerpts from official reports that conveyed the relocatees plight as a successful experiment, he describes broken promises, a decades-long fight to return home, and a life between two worlds as southern culture begins to encroach on Inuit traditions.

The Man of the Moon

Gunvor Bjerre, illus. by Miki Jacobsen, July

Published in English for the first time, a collection of Greenlandic myths and legends that have been passed down orally for generations, featuring young protagonists.

IVP

First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament

Terry M. Wildman, Aug.

A dynamic equivalence translation of the Creators Storythe Christian Scripturesfollowing the tradition of Native storytellers' oral cultures, capturing the simplicity, clarity, and beauty of Native storytellers in English, while remaining faithful to the original language of the New Testament.

MICHIGAN STATE UNIV.

Bkejwanong Dbaajmowinan / Stories of Where the Waters Divide (Makwa Enewed)

Monty McGahey, out now

A collection of stories from the elders of Bkejwanongformerly known as Walpole Island, Ontariowho understand the importance of passing on the language to future generations to preserve the legacy of the community. With English translations, this resource is essential for Anishinaabemowin learners, teachers, linguists, and historians.

The Founding Mothers of Mackinac Island: The Agatha Biddle Band of 1870

Theresa L. Weller, Aug.

A comprehensive history of the lineage of the seventy-four members of the Agatha Biddle band in 1870, which began as a small handful of unrelated Indian women joined by the fact that the U.S. government owed them payments in exchange for land given up in the 1836 Treaty of Washington, D.C.

Louise Erdrich's Justice Trilogy: Cultural and Critical Contexts

Connie A. Jacobs and Nancy J. Peterson, Oct.

A collection of essays focusing on the three novels that comprise Erdrich's justice trilogyThe Plague of Doves, The Round House, and LaRosewhich are set in northern North Dakota, where small towns and reservation life bring together a cast of characters whose lives are shaped by history, identity, and community.

MILKWEED EDITIONS

Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity

Darrel J. McLeod, Aug.

Following up his award-winning debut memoir, Mamaskatch, which portrayed a Cree coming-of-age in rural Canada, the author confronts how both the personal traumas of his youth and the historical traumas of his ancestral line impact the trajectory of his life.

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Naadamaading: Dibaajimowinan Ji-Nisdotaading

edited by Anton Treuer, illus. by Jonathan Thunder, Aug.

Together with their other friends and family, Makoons and her friend Nigigoons go berrying and fishing, and listen to the stories of the elders. Created to encourage learning Anishinaabemowin, the language of Ojibwe people, these original stories are written in Ojibwe and a monolingual text presented only in Anishinaabemowin.

The Good Berry Cookbook: Harvesting and Cooking Wild Rice and Other Wild Foods

Tashia Hart, Sept.

The author, an ethnobotanist, follows the Anishinaabeg people of the Great Lakes region through seasons and spaces to gather wild foods and contemplate connections among the people and their plant and animal relatives.

The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World

Anton Treuer, Oct.

Provides the personal stories of one Ojibwe family's hunting, gathering, harvesting, and cultural practices and beliefswithout violating protected secrets.

Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers

Teresa Peterson and Walter LaBatte Jr., Oct.

Stories, from five generations of the family of Tasina Susbeca Win, that bring people together, transmit traditions, teach how to behave, and deliver heroes, especially those who do not appear in school or history books.

NIMBUS

I Place You into the Fire: Poems

Rebecca Thomas, out now

The first poetry collection from the Mi'kmaw spoken-word poet and former poet laureate of Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia.

NORTH ATLANTIC

Afrikan Wisdom: New Voices Talk Black Liberation, Buddhism, and Beyond

Edited by Valerie Mason-John, July

A spiritual, political, and interdisciplinary anthology of wisdom stories from today's Black liberation thought leaders and teachers, including an essay reflecting on the author's African and Native American ancestry, mapping the erasure and oppression of both groups and the socially complex history they shared.

PRINCETON UNIV.

After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands

Margaret D. Jacobs, Oct.

Confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history.

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