BEARS MAKE ROCK SOUP AND OTHER STORIES
Author: Lisa Erdrich
Origin: Ojibway and Oneida
Theme: Storytelling
Grades: 2-5

This book was made by two storytellers, one artist and one writer. Through their pictures and words, they b...

BLUE ROSES, THE
Author: Linda Boyden
Origin: USA
Theme: Cycle of Life
Grades: K-3

A Native American girl gardens with her grandfather and learns about life and loss when he dies. Her favori...

BOY CALLED SLOW, A
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Origin: Lakota
Theme: Biography
Grades: 1-5

A true story about the childhood of the greatest Lakota hero, Sitting Bull.

BRIGHT PATH: YOUNG JIM THORPE
Author: Don Brown
Origin: United States
Theme: Challenges, Dreams
Grades: 2-4

This is the story of a young Indian boy from Oaklahoma who became the greatest athlete in the world in the ...

BUFFALO JUMP, THE
Author: Peter Roop
Origin: Native American; Blackfeet Tribe
Theme: Jealousy, Courage
Grades: 2-5

Angry that his brother is chosen to be the buffalo runner, Little Blaze, the fastest runner in the tribe mu...

BUFFALO SONG
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Origin: American West
Theme: Endangered Species, Dedication, Compassion
Grades: K-4

Here is an inspiring story of the first efforts to save the buffalo, an animal sacred to Native Americans a...

CHEYENNE AGAIN
Author: Eve Bunting
Origin: Cheyenne
Theme: Heritage
Grades: 1-4

In the late 1800's a Cheyenne boy was taken to a boarding school to learn the white mans ways.

CHILDREN OF NATIVE AMERICA TODAY
Author: Yvonne Wakim Dennis & Arlene Hirschfelde
Origin: Native American
Theme: Traditions, History
Grades: 2-5

Text and photographs introduce traditions, activities, and lifestyles of children from various North Americ...

COYOTE : A TRICKSTER TALE FROM THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
COYOTE: EDITI?N ESPA?OL
Author: Gerald McDermott
Origin: Zuni
Theme: Folktale
Grades: K-3

This traditional Native American tale is brought to life by Mr. McDermott's deft use of rhythmic language a...

CRAZY HORSE'S VISION
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Origin: Lakota
Theme: 2-5
Grades: Courage; History

A story based on the life of the courageous young Lakota boy who grew up to be one of the bravest defenders...

CROSSING BOK CHITTO
Author: Tim Tingle
Origin: Native American; Choctaw
Theme: Challenges, Courage, Friendship
Grades: 3-5

In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the river. When she...

GIFT HORSE
Author: S. D. Nelson
Origin: Lakota
Theme: Coming of Age
Grades: K-3

The story of a Lakota youth whose father gives him a horse in preparation for his making his transition fro...

GRANDMOTHER SPIDER BRINGS THE SUN
Author: Geri Keams
Origin: Cherokee
Theme: Respect, Nature
Grades: 1-3

This book teaches us to respect and honor fire, Grandmother Spider, and out four-legged-friends , just as t...

HOME TO MEDICINE MOUNTAIN
Author: Chiori Santiago
Origin: California
Theme: History
Grades: 1-4

A story of two young brothers who are separated from their family and sent to live at a government-run Indi...

JINGLE DANCER
Author: Cynthia Leitich Smith
Origin: Creek Nation
Theme: Tradition
Grades: K-3

Jenna borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so she can perform the jingle dance...

LEGEND OF THE LADY SLIPPER, THE
Author: Lise Lunge-Larsen & Margi Preu
Origin: Ojibway
Theme: Folklore
Grades: K-3

An unforgettable retelling of the folklore of how the wildflowers, Lady Sleepers, came to exist.

LONG MARCH, THE
Author: Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
Origin: Choctaw
Theme: History
Grades: 3-5

A recounting of how the Choctaw Indians reached out and helped the Irish during the potato famine in 1847.

LOUIS SOCKALEXIS-NATIVE AMERICAN BASEBALL PIONEER
Author: Bill Wise
Origin: Native American; United States
Theme: 2-5
Grades: Perseverance; Racism

In 1884 twelve-year-old Louis Sockalexis, a Penobscot Indian, fell in love with baseball. He eventually joi...

MUSKRAT WILL BE SWIMMING
Author: Cheryl Savageau
Origin: Native American
Theme: 2-5
Grades: Self-acceptance; Sen

A young Native American girl's feelings are hurt when schoolmates make fun of the children who live at the ...

MYSTIC HORSE
Author: Paul Goble
Origin: United States
Theme: History, Courage
Grades: K-4

Mystical and earthbound worlds are depicted in this tale of a Pawnee boy who nurses a horse back to health...

NAVAJO LONG WALK: THE TRAGIC STORY OF A PROUD PEOPLE'S FORCED MARCH FROM THEIR HOMELAND
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Origin: Native-American
Theme: U.S. History, Challenges, Conflict & Resolution
Grades: 3-5

In January of 1864, Kit Carson led the army into Canyon de Chelley, the heart of the Navajo nation. Homes,...

PORTRAIT OF SPOTTED DEER'S GRANDFATHER, A
Author: Amy Littlesugar
Origin: The West
Theme: Biography
Grades: 1-4

This story is based on the life of George Catlin, who captured on canvas the great Indian tribes of the Ame...

QUIET HERO--THE IRA HAYES STORY
Author: S.D. Nelson
Origin: Native American
Theme: 2-5
Grades: World War II; Marine

A biography of Native American Ira Hayes, a shy Pima Indian who fought in World War II as a marine and was ...

ROADRUNNER'S DANCE
Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Origin: The Southwest
Theme: Legend
Grades: K-3

Rattlesnake takes over the road and will not let anyone in the village use it. So, Desert Woman, along with...

SEQUOYAH--THE CHEROKEE MAN WHO GAVE HIS PEOPLE WRITING
Author: James Rumford
Origin: Native American
Theme: 2-5
Grades: Biography; Literacy;

This is the story of Sequoyah who put his language into written form so that it would give the Cherokee nat...

SITTING BULL REMEMBERS
Author: Ann Turner
Origin: Native American
Theme: 2-5
Grades: History; Little Big

A beautiful narration in the first person, Sitting Bull remembers the glory days and the sadness that follo...

SQUANTO'S JOURNEY-THE STORY OF THE FIRST THANKSGIVING
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Origin: Native American
Theme: 1-31-3
Grades: Indians of North Ame

This is Squanto's story from being captured and sent to Spain, to returning to America, to making peace wit...

TALLCHIEF: AMERICA'S PRIMA BALLERINA
Author: Maria Tallchief
Origin: Osage
Theme: Autobiography, Perse
Grades: 1-5

Ballerina Maria Tallchief describes her childhood on an Osage Reservation, the development of her love of d...

THREE LITTLE JAVELINAS, THE/ LOS TRES PEQUENOS JABA
Author: Susan Lowell
Origin: Southwest
Theme: Fairy Tale
Grades: P-3

A Southwestern version of the Three Little Pigs. The story takes place in the Sonoran Desert.

TORTOISE AND THE JACKRABBIT, THE
Author: Susan Lowell
Origin: Southwest
Theme: Folktale, Environmen
Grades: K-3

The tale of the tortoise and the hare with a southwestern flair. Their friends, Roadrunner, Tarantula, Skun...