Native American Fiction
National Native American Heritage Month, observed in November, honors the histories, cultures, and contributions – historical and ongoing – of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Tribal affiliation(s) listed before annotations. (Updated October 2024) Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Coexistence
(Driftpile Cree) Cree people deal with the intersections of sexuality, colonialism, and trauma.
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A Vicious Game
(Anishinaabe) A new king is on the throne and the rebellion lies in ruins. Keera spends her days drinking and her nights avoiding the strange dreams that have haunted her since she returned from the capital. Keera's family in Myrelinth won't let her go without a fight. With new intelligence about the magical seals left behind by Keera's ancient kin, the Light Fae, she rallies to face her demons and unleash the formidable powers she inherited from her people. But a shocking truth is hiding in plain sight, one with the power to unravel the entire rebellion.
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1666
(Patawomeck) The story follows three Indigenous Patawomeck women who lived through the decimation of their tribe by land hungry colonists in the summer of 1666, the massacre of their men, the harrowing march south where they and their children were sold and transported to Barbados via slave ship, and, eventually, their brave escape back to Virginia. It is because of these women that the tribe is in existence to this day.
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Exposure
(Diné) In Gallup, New Mexico, where violent crime is five times the national average, a serial killer is operating unchecked, his targets indigent Native people whose murders are easily disguised as death by exposure on the frigid winter streets. As the Gallup detectives struggle to put the pieces together, they consider calling in a controversial specialist to help. Rita Todacheene, Albuquerque PD forensic photographer, is at a crisis point in her career. Her colleagues are watching her with suspicion after the recent revelation that she can see the ghosts of murder victims.
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The Mighty Red
(North Dakota Chippewa, Turtle Mountain Band) Pulitzer winner Erdrich follows the folks of the Red River Valley of North Dakota—the original home to the Ojibwe, the Dakota, and the Metis—in a captivating tale of love and everyday life amid environmental upheaval and the 2008 financial crisis. (Publishers Weekly)
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A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids
(Minnesota Chippewa, Bois Forte Band) Margie Robineau, fighting for her family's long-held allotment land, uncovers events connected to a long-ago escape plan, and the burial--at once figurative and painfully real--of not one crime but two. While Margie pieces the facts together, Dale Ann is confronted by her own tightly held secrets and the truth that the long ago and the now are all indelibly linked, no matter how much we try to forget
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I Was A Teenage Slasher
(Blackfeet) A good kid in a small Texas town in 1989 finds himself cursed to kill for revenge in true slasher film-style.
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Prairie Edge
(Métis) A slow-moving, quietly furious portrait of two Indigenous Canadians and their attempts to ignite a protest movement. (Kirkus)
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Indian Burial Ground
(Tunica-Biloxi) When the facts surrounding her boyfriend Roddy's apparent suicide don't add up, Noemi, suspecting something sinister is stalking their tribal lands, relies on help from her uncle, who has returned to the reservation, bringing with him secrets, horror and what might be the key to determining Roddy's true cause of death.
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The Truth According to Ember
(Chickasaw) A Chickasaw woman who can’t catch a break serves up a little white lie that snowballs into much more in this witty and irresistible rom-com by debut author Danica Nava.
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