November is Native American Heritage Month: Native American Nonfiction Resources

Celebrated Times journalist Michael Powell brings us a moving story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports can be to youths in struggling communities, and the transcendent magic and painful realities that confront Native Americans living on reservations.

Indigenous Investigations analyzes how Native authors use the genre to foreground centuries of settler-colonial crimes and comment upon the ways in which these acts continue to impact Native individuals and communities today.

A dozen Native American writers reclaim their rightful role as influential "voices" in the debates about Native communities at the dawn of a new millennium.

In this bold and sweeping counternarrative to our conventional understanding of Native American history, celebrated academic historian Frederick E. Hoxie presents the story of Native American political activism--a chronicle that spans more than two hundred years.

This encyclopedia features the most respected, widely read, and influential American Indian writers to date.

This eagerly awaited non-fiction debut by acclaimed Native environmental activist Winona LaDuke is a thoughtful and in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation.

The first collection of LaDuke's speeches, articles, and more. This collection will resonate with people interested in issues critical to Native Americans and indigenous peoples worldwide. Library Journal.

Daughters of Mother Earth holds that for too long, elements unnatural to Native American ways of knowing have been imposed on the study of Native America.

Berck weaves the stories of these two Native American heroines with those of their friends, kin, and contemporaries, tracing a slice of American migration from the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, across the Appalachian Mountains, through the land of the Cherokees, to St. Louis, up the Missouri River, and finally to the Pacific.

In this captivating collection of unpublished and published essays, one of our most important scholars, Paula Gunn Allen, explores the symbiotic relationship between Native American culture and the larger Western world.

Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award, The Beginning and End of Rape collects and expands the powerful writings in which Sarah Deer, who played a crucial role in the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013, has advocated for cultural and legal reforms to protect Native women from endemic sexual violence and abuse.

A rare and often intimate glimpse at the resilience and perserverance of Native women who face each day positively and see the richnes in their lives.

Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American.

The Native American Identity in Sports: Creating and Preserving a Culture notes numerous instances of Native American accomplishment and impact on sports. This collection of essays examines how sport has contributed to shaping and expressing Native American identity.

This volume traces the history of injustice against American Indians, from losing their land, to moving to reservations, to having their culture stolen from them. Readers will learn how the movement for rights began, and the challenges and successes activists faced.