Indigenous Voices

Thomas C. Gannon’s Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author’s life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. 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

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. 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

Native Hawaiian and cultural expert Kainoa Daines has spent many years teaching visitors to the islands about this time-honored wisdom, and now he has teamed up with journalist Annie Daly to share that knowledge with you.  Read more

By Kathleen DuVal 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

A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations. By Gregory Smithers. Read more

Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe is an Indigenous artist who blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power while searching for a permanent home. Read more

It's time to rewild ourselves and our dominant worldviews to build Earth-centered communities for all. By Osprey Orielle Lake. Read more

Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe explores themes from indigenous identity and stereotypes to cultural displacement and environmental degradation to understand what our experiences teach us about the power of community, commitment, and conscientious honesty. 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

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