#native american author

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Remember by Joy Harjo, illustrated by Michaela Goade

#illustration #art #book illustration #native american author #joy harjo #picture book #children's literature #native american illustrator #artist #illustrator #kids books #caldecott medal #indigenous kid lit #kid lit #sassafras and moonshine

[tinynavajoreads]

Just Finished: Shutter by Ramona Emerson

A story by a Diné woman about a Diné woman who is a forensic photographer. She can also see and hear ghosts, something she's been able to do all her life and she has had to hide that she can, with death such a taboo subject for Diné.

I am Diné myself, Navajo, and I was excited to see a book written about and by Diné woman! It's more of a mystery and less of a fantasy and so it took me a bit to get into it, but once I did I devoured it! This is a really good book and I really really hope Ramona Emerson writes more!

What about a book draws you in, if it's not your type of book you read?

#shutter #ramona emerson #diné #book review #book #book talk #booklr #mystery #diverse books #diverse authors #native american #native american author #navajo #navajo nation

[desdasiwrites]

– Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indian

#book quote of the day #stephen graham jones #the only good indians #horror #native american literature #native american author #Shirley Jackson Award winner #Bram Stoker Award winner #Ray Bradbury Prize winner #book recommendations

[readingcomicswrong]

#fall #fall season #leaves #autumn #autumnal #falling leaves #seasons #literature #ojibwe #indigenous #native american #native american author

[anotherpapercut]

genuinely it will never stop baffling me how people will wear twilight shirts and talk about team Edward vs team Jacob and then the same people will be like "I'm not basing my personality off of a piece of media (harry potter) made by a transphobe 😌" like good that's great! so you can excuse racism but you draw the line at transphobia? good to know

#remember when twilight came out and there were news articles about the quileute tribe and also if you read the books with your eyes #you know that theyre extremely like INSANELY racist #i remember reading them at age 10 and thinking 'wow this author hates women and native americans' #and i was right bc later i found out shes mormon 😐 #begging you all to take racism and especially pretty extreme racism against natives seriously lmfao

[rs-hawk]

Piasa Bird bringing you shiny objects and relocating his nest by the river so you can see how beautiful it looks during the day or with the stars shining off of it. His smile faltering when he sees the pollution clogging up the river and making it look murky and muddy. It’s the first time you’ve seen him anything but confident and strong.

His reptilian eyes clouded with memory and emotion as he lands back in the nest, sitting on the far edge away from you. You assure him you still think it’s a lovely spot. You like the scenery. He doesn’t really respond for a little while, then asks why humans do this. You don’t have a good answer, so you just take one of his wings, wrapping it around yourself like you would a human partner’s arm.

You both sit in silence until the sun sets, then you point out how beautiful the stars look twinkling off the water. That at least makes him grin, showing off his mouth full of razor sharp teeth.

#writers on tumblr #writing #fantasy romance #author #monster lover #monster romance #monster fucker #monster fuqqer #monster husband #monster bf #monster boyfriend #piasa bird #indigenous mythology #indigenous folklore #native folklore #native american folklore #folklore #my writing #indigenous writer #native writer #fluff #monster fluff #beast fluff #monster kink #romance

[moniquill]

I am thrilled to announce that my upcoming novel, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath: The First Book of Nampeshiweisit - which will be released on May 9th 2023 - is now available for preorder!

Anequs, a fifteen-year old indigenous girl, has never been away from her isolated island community. But Anequs has just bonded with a dragon hatchling, and thus become the first Nampeshiweisit - person in a unique relationship with a dragon - that the island has seen in more than two hundred years. That’s something that does not go unnoticed by the colonizing powers that be.

Now, in accordance with the colonizers’ laws, Anequs must attend an academy on the mainland and prove her competence in dragon husbandry and magic. If she can’t or won’t perform to their very specific expectations, her dragon will be put to death.

Anequs must navigate two cultures’ worth of traditions and wisdom, trying to fill a role no one has held in two hundred years. There are no mentors who can teach her precisely what she needs to be, so she must find her own path. She rekindles lost traditions, pieces together new ways of doing ancient things and traditional ways of doing new things. She must comply with the laws and regulations imposed on her by colonizers while also staying true to her people's values and beliefs.

It can be preordered at Penguin Randomhouse, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon among other retailers.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706010/to-shape-a-dragons-breath-by-moniquill-blackgoose/

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/to-shape-a-dragons-breath-moniquill-blackgoose/1141987016

https://www.amazon.com/Shape-Dragons-Breath-First-Nampeshiweisit/dp/0593498283

Big thanks to the artist of the cover illustration, Ryan Pooman

https://www.instagram.com/ryanpooman/

and to art director Regina Flath

https://twitter.com/reginaflath/

https://www.instagram.com/reginaflath/

#please reblog #native american #ndn #indigenous authors

[godzilla-reads]

November is Native American Heritage Month, so I set up a bookshelf to showcase some books by Native American authors I’ve read and I’d like to read.

#godzilla reads #native american authors #native american heritage month #bookshelf #book blog #booklr #reading #bookworm #bookish #bibliophile

[byronicist]

"I came into this world already scarred by loss on both sides of my family. My Indigenous side; my European side. My father and my mother were the kind of damaged people who should never have had children. But of course, they had me, and so my first language was loss."

Deborah Miranda, When Coyote Knocks on the Door (2021)

#quotes #literature #lit #poetry #spilled ink #modern literature #poets of color #native literature #indigenous literature #native authors #native writers #women authors #women writers #queer authors #queer writers #indigenous writers #indigenous authors #indigenous women #native american literature #deborah miranda #american literature

[submissive-and-readable]

Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger

Source: NetGalley ARC

Publisher: Levine Querido

Release date: 16 April 2024

Genre: young adult historical/urban fantasy (70s rural Texas)

If you like:

dogs (ghost dogs!)

various ghost animals, existing and extinct

no romance whatsoever

hope and community in the midst of grief and loss

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Synopsis

Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can't afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood - and the loss of Shane's father and her grandparents. They don't think they'll ever get their home back.

Then Shane's mother and a local boy go missing, after a strange interaction with a fairy ring. Shane, her brother, her friends, and her lone, surviving grandparent - who isn't to be trusted - set off on the road to find them. But they may not be anywhere in this world - or this place in time.

Nevertheless, Shane is going to find them.

Content warnings

Colonisation

Loss of close family members

Illness

Natural disasters

Grief

Review

I found out about this book while scrolling through NetGalley, and the second I saw that it was a prequel to Elatsoe, I had to read it.

This is a prequel about Elatsoe's grandmother Shane as a 17 year old girl, but you don't have to read Elatsoe to know what's going on, and both books can be read in either order as standalones.

This book is so well-crafted and thoughtful; it took me a little while to fully immerse myself in the story, because the setting and vibe is so different from Elatsoe, and it is a little slower paced, but once I got into the groove, the story flowed over me.

We follow Shane as she tries to figure out the mystery of her mother's and a child's disappearance, and along the way we learn about her history, as well as explore her relationships with her family and friends.

A strong focus of the book is on Shane's grief; grief from losing not only her home and her family members, but also losing her culture and language. This book tackles the harms caused by colonialism, which goes beyond stealing land, but also erases culture and peoples.

At its heart, this book is about family and community. At times Shane may feel alone, like she has to take on her burdens by herself, but her friends and family are always there for her (dead or alive).

I also loved Rovina Cai's lovely illustrations at each chapter heading; they tell a story parallel to the main story, and they add another layer of depth.

Overall, this is book was written full of heart, and it shows <3

#sheine lende #darcie little badger #booklr #book review #rovina cai #readblr #elatsoe #native american #indiginous authors #urban fantasy #own voices #young adult #ya books #ya fantasy #ya fiction

[rockislandadultreads]

Native American Heritage Month: Nonfiction Recommendations

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by checking out one of these nonfiction recommendations from your local library!  

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

The received idea of Native American history has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear - the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention.

Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists edited by Jill Ahlberg Yohe

This volume explores the artistic achievements of Native women and establishes their rightful place in the art world, including works of art from antiquity to the present, made in a variety of media from textiles and beadwork to video and digital arts. It showcases artists from more than seventy-five Indigenous tribes to reveal the ingenuity and innovation that have always been foundational to the art of Native women.

New Native Kitchen by Freddie Bitsoie

From the former executive chef at Mitsitam Native Foods Café at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, this book is a celebration of Indigenous cuisine. Accompanied by original artwork and offering delicious dishes like Cherrystone Clam Soup and Spice-Rubbed Pork Tenderloin, Bitsoie showcases the variety of flavor and culinary history on offer from coast to coast, providing modern interpretations of 100 recipes that have long fed this country.

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff

It was one of the most reliable jokes in Charlie Hill’s stand-up routine: “My people are from Wisconsin. We used to be from New York. We had a little real estate problem.” In this account, acclaimed comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff focuses on one of comedy’s most significant and little-known stories: how, despite having been denied representation in the entertainment industry, Native Americans have influenced and advanced the art form.

Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

In this account, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the centuries and the Canada–U.S. border, King debunks fabricated stories of Indian savagery and White heroism, takes an oblique look at Indians (and cowboys) in film and popular culture, wrestles with the history of Native American resistance and his own experiences as a Native rights activist, and articulates a profound, revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands.

#Native American Heritage Month #Native American Authors #native american history #nonfiction #book recs #book recommendations #reading recs #reading recommendations #library books #TBR pile #tbr #to read #booklr #book tumblr

[cupofteajones]

Quote of the Day - November 2, 2022

Quote of the Day – November 2, 2022

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#Book quotes #Books #Inspirational Quotes #Life #Life Lessons #Louise Erdrich #Native American Authors #Native American Heritage Month #Native Americans #Quote of the Day #Quotes #Quotes from Books #The Painted Drum

[barnbridges]

my favorite video on al gore's internet was the one saying that the most superior literary dystopia was aldous huxley's brave new world and the worst was the hunger games, with no real understanding of the context either novel came from and that brave new world is literally plagiarized but ok.

#first of all the hunger games is one of the best shaped dystopias out there #“but the games arent an original idea of the author” i dont care #brave new world literally uses native american genocide as a symbol i dont care that suzanne didnt invent reality tv #ive read a LOT of dystopias and my tie for favorite is we by yevgheny zamyatin and a clockwork orange by anthony burgess #and there's a lot of shitty ones i think its literally a disservice to say thg is the worst #anywho if anyone cares about end of the world 1984 is literally mediocre fight me about it

[desdasiwrites]

– Tiffany McDaniel, On the Savage Side

#book quote of the day #tiffany mcdaniel #On the Savage Side #Native American author #mystery fiction #twin sisters #Chillicothe #beautiful writing #tw: addiction #crime genre #books and reading

[cheshirelibrary]

More Children’s Books by Native American Authors

[via Book Riot]

We need to be reading books by Native American authors year-round. We need to be turning to books by Native American authors to support different themes, as the kickoff to many different kinds of lessons, and as bedtime stories any time of year. November is Native American Heritage Month, and the book world is beyond blessed by more and more picture books being published by authors Indigenous to North America.

We Are Still Here!: Native American Truths Everyone Should Know by Traci Sorell and Frané Lessac

Still This Love Goes On by Buffy Sainte-Marie  and Julie Flett

Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud and Kalila J. Fuller

Powwow Day by Traci Sorell and Madelyn Goodnight

Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman

by Sharice Davids, Nancy K. Mays, and Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

...

Click through to see more titles.

#cheshire library #children's books #native american authors #native american heritage month

[rs-hawk]

Okay so I wasn’t going to say anything else about this after that ask, but if I don’t, I feel like this might bother me for awhile. It is very important to me to have stories featuring my culture. Yes it’s “just smut” for the most part, but until I started writing it, I had literally never even read a romance novel with an Indigenous main character in any capacity.

Growing up, the only movies I saw myself portrayed in positively and not the butt of a joke was Spirit, Brother Bear and Dances with Wolves. Books I can think of a couple more, but they were primarily folklore/cultural stories that got illustrated. Yes, what I write isn’t going to touch some kid’s life and make them feel represented, but it makes ME feel represented. It makes ME feel seen. I know it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but to me it is. I have always been put down and made fun of for being “Indian”.

Don’t come onto my blog and tell me I’m being disrespectful by using my own culture in my writing. I’ve written so many stories using my own culture and literally one using Wahzhazhe traditional language because I’m learning it. I and other Indigenous Peoples deserve to be able to express ourselves using our own culture without being accused of stealing it. Don’t accuse someone of being disrespectful when they’re creating their own representation because their entire life they can count on one hand the amount of positive representation they’ve had. If you don’t know, check out their blog or just ask. That’s less upsetting and offensive imo than jumping to accusing me of stealing my own culture.

This is like getting upset with 1876 or Walela for using terms like “Indian” or “Rez” because you don’t know they’re Indigenous bands.

#writers on tumblr #writing #fantasy romance #author #monster lover #monster romance #fantasy smut #monster fucker #monster fuqqer #smut #indigenous mythology series #indigenous mythology #indigenous folklore #indigenous #native american #Native American folklore