#indigenous lit

[reverie-quotes]

But while I waited for him to show his ugly side, instead I was undone by his kindness, revealing my skinned self to the bright gaze of the winter sun.

— Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

[andrumedus]

...my heart had become a phoenix of swallowed myths. [...]

Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War; “Hieroglyphic”

[read-alert]

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day!

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur

Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel

Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensée and KC Oster, translated by Aarin Dokum

Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez

Kindred Spirits: Shilombish Ittibachvffa by Leslie Stall Widener and Johnson Yazzie

The Flicker by HE Edgmon

A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette, Scott B Henderson, and Donovan Yaciuk

I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land by Alaina E Roberts

[bookmuseum]

"The melancholy of those black days has left so long a shadow that it darkens the path of years that have since gone by."

—Zitkala-Ša, "The School Days of an Indian Girl" from American Indian Stories (1921)

[sweetflutereads]

“Grief is messy and complex; it is love with nowhere to go.”

— Jen Storm, Little Moons

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

Have you read "A Kayak Full of Ghosts" by Lawrence Millman?

Yes

No

Partially

I've never heard of this

Voting ended onJun 17, 2024

[postmodernismruinedme]

"I no longer wish to be called resilient. Call me reckless, impatient, and emotional. Even Indigenous. Call me anything other than survivor. I am so many more things than brave."

- Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe, Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

[jooliefiveash]

Native Children's Lit and YA Suggestions!

+ We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade

+ Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith

+ A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger