Indigenous Voices

In A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other, Charlotte Coté shares contemporary Nuu-chah-nulth practices of traditional food revitalization in the context of broader efforts to re-Indigenize contemporary diets on the Northwest Coast. Read more

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. Read more

Haboo, Vi Hilbert's collection of thirty-three stories, features tales mostly set in the Myth Age, before the world transformed. Read more

By Terese Marie Mailhot. A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest. Read more

A companion work to the award-winning "Peace Weavers," "Interwoven Lives" depicts the experiences of four additional intermarried indigenous women who influenced mid-1800s Puget Sound settlement. The women came from four distinct homelands--Jenny Wynn, Lu Read more

An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation Read more

From oral history to written word, learn about the history of Oregon through the stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Willamette Valley. By David G. Lewis. Read more

At once a deeply moving memoir and a fascinating elucidation of a rich indigenous cosmology, Walking the Ojibwe Path is an unforgettable journey. By Richard Wagamese. Read more

Vi Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed by Janet Yoder. The life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who, more than anyone, revitalized her native language—Lushootseed—and shared it and the culture it expresses with the world. Read more