Menlo School Library: Native Voices: Nonfiction

Titles in the Menlo Library

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publication Date: 2014-09-16
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples; Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land.
How We Go Home by Sara Sinclair (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020-10-13
In myriad ways, each narrator's life has been shaped by loss, injustice, and resilience--and by the struggle of how to share space with settler nations whose essential aim is to take all that is Indigenous. Theirs are stories shaped by loss, injustice, resilience, and the struggle to share space with settler nations.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
Publication Date: 2019-01-22
Beginning with the tribes' devastating loss of land and the forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools, he shows how the period of greatest adversity also helped to incubate a unifying Native identity.
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults by Robin Wall Kimmerer; Monique Gray Smith; Nicole Neidhardt (Illustrator)
Publication Date: 2022-11-01
Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us.
We Are the Land by Damon B. Akins; William J. Bauer; William J. Bauer
Publication Date: 2021-04-20
Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it.
#NotYourprincess by Lisa Charleyboy (Editor); Mary Beth Leatherdale (Editor)
Publication Date: 2017-09-12
Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #NotYourPrincess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman.
Native-American Literature by Gerald R. Vizenor; Ishmael Reed (Editor)
Publication Date: 1997-01-07
This is one of a series of brief anthologies designed for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. The series aims to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature.
Spirits of the Earth by Bobby Lake-Thom
Publication Date: 1997-08-01
An extraordinary compilation of legends and rituals about nature's ever-present signs. From the birds that soar above us to the insects beneath our feet, Native American healer Bobby Lake-Thom shows how the creatures of the earth can aid us in healing and self-knowledge.
From Abenaki to Zuni by Evelyn Wolfson; William Sauts Bock (Photographer)
Publication Date: 1988-05-01
"Easy to use and thoughtful in its construction (it) invites browsing and serendipitous reading". -- HB. "A concise and well-outlined description of the tribes". -- SLJ. 1988
Native Universe by Gerald McMaster and Clifford E. Trafzer
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
Written by a distinguished group of Native American scholars, poets, activists, and tribal leaders, the book will offer its non-Indian readers a closer understanding of Native perspectives, beliefs, and histories.
LaDonna Harris by LaDonna Harris; H. Henrietta Stockel (Editor)
Publication Date: 2000-02-01
This book is the unforgettable story of a Comanche woman who has become one of the most influential, inspired, and determined Native Americans in politics. Her story provides a witty and valuable American Indian insider's view of modern national political scenes.
Apple by Eric Gansworth
Publication Date: 2020-10-06
The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." In Apple (Skin to the Core), Eric Gansworth tells his story, the story of his family--of Onondaga among Tuscaroras--of Native folks everywhere.
The Ohlone Way by Malcolm Margolin
Publication Date: 1997-04-01
The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indian people who inhabited Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans. Malcolm Margolin vividly recreates the Ohlones' lost world. From his unique vantage point as a "friend of the family," he updates this classic text with a new preface that tells stories of the Ohlones' continued endurance and resurgence.
Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria
Publication Date: 1999-09-10
This provocative book explores how white Americans have used their ideas about Native Americans to shape national identity in different eras--and how Indian people have reacted to these imitations of their native dress, language, and ritual.
Stories of the People by Smithsonian Institution Staff; National Museum of the American Indian Staff; Holly Stewart
Publication Date: 1997-06-15
Six Native Americans shed light on the diverse histories of their cultures.
The Ohlone Past and Present by Lowell J. Bean (Editor)
Publication Date: 1994-11-01
This book remedies a long-standing wrong and neglect of the Indians of the San Francisco Bay Area in the published anthropological literature, and especially the all-too-common statement in that literature to the effect that the Ohlone (or Costanoans) have long been extinct.