Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

Join the Library in celebrating Native American Heritage Month/National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month during November. Native American Heritage Month is a time to recognize the history, culture, and contributions of Indigenous people.

Native American Heritage Month

Books for Adults

Indigenous citizens : Native Americans' fight for sovereignty
Stealing America : the hidden story of Indigenous slavery in American history
Nothing more of this land
The devil is a southpaw
To the Moon and back
Python's kiss
Cloud runner : poems
We survived the night
The birthing tree : a novel
Off the Reservation
Never whistle at night : part II, back for blood

More Books for Adults

Books for Young Adults

Legendary frybread drive-in : intertribal stories
Ours to tell : reclaiming Indigenous stories
Medicine wheels
Indigenous Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands
Native to this land : a history of Indigenous rights in North America
Wolf Club
Shards of silence
Buffalo dreamer : a novel
Stealing Little Moon : the legacy of the American Indian boarding schools
Where wolves don't die : a novel
The power of style : how fashion and beauty are being used to reclaim cultures

More YA Books

Books for Children

Braided roots
Blue Bearies
I am on Indigenous land
The Lakota : people, culture, and history
The Ojibwe : people, culture, and history
Powwows
The ones who came before
Until we meet again : Donadagohvi
Autumn's abundance : an indigenous celebration of nature
Grandmother Moon
The animals speak : the Lakota way
Fire in your belly

More Books for Children

Native American Heritage Digital Collections

Native American Heritage Month. A collection of films honoring history and heritage. kanopy: films that matter. kanopy.com
Hoopla Native American Heritage Month
OverDrive National Native American Heritage Month

Resources & Learning

National Museum of the American Indian: NK360°

Native Knowledge 360° provides educational materials, virtual student programs, and teacher training that incorporate Native narratives, more comprehensive histories, and accurate information to enlighten and inform teaching and learning about Native America.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans.

Check out exhibitions and collections, online video and audio, and resources for teachers.

Native Northeast Research Collaborative

The Native Northeast Research Collaborative (formerly The Yale Indian Papers Project) is an inclusive digital humanities endeavor that engages tribes, scholars, educators, students, and the general public in the study of the Native presence in the Atlantic Northeast.

Institute for American Indian Studies

The Institute for American Indian Studies (IAIS), located in Washington, CT, preserves and educates through discovery and creativity the diverse traditions, vitality and knowledge of Native American cultures.

Mashantucket Pequot Museum

Tribally owned and operated since it opened on Aug. 11, 1998, the Museum brings to life the story of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. It serves as a major resource on the histories and cultures of Native Americans in the northeast and on the region’s rich natural history.

WCSU Indigenous Peoples Mini Collection

Western Connecticut State University offers a collection of resources about Connecticut Native tribes, local museums, art and artifacts, podcasts, and more.