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Indigenous Lit You Should Be Reading


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Today, Amanda and Ellyn are highlighting Indigenous authors and stories in celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day. The history of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day goes back to the 1970's! In 1977, the International Conference on Discrimination Against Indigenous Populations in the Americas, sponsored by the United Nations, first began discussing this change. It is a challenge to the notion that Christopher Columbus “discovered” a land that had actually been populated for tens of thousands of years. Dog-Eared Books is on the ancestral homelands of the Meskwaki Nation and Baxoje ich’e - also known as the Ioway (from which we take our state name) - peoples.

Amanda and Ellyn have put together a list of some of their favorite Indigenous authors to share with you. We hope you listen and pick up Indigenous Stories year round.

Ellyn's Currently Reading | The Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang

Amanda's Currently Reading | The Optimists by Brian Platzer & The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

Books coming out this week | We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat & Bog Queen by Anna North

SHOW NOTES:

Rethinking How We Celebrate American History - Indigenous Peoples Day

Learn About and Donate to the Meskwaki Nation

Learn More About the Baxoje

Learn About and Donate to the First Nations

Birchbark Books

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Indigenous Authors you NEED to be Reading:

  • Louise Erdrich - member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (ND)
        • “The Round House”
        • “The Night Watchman”
        • “The Sentence”
          • Tommy Orange - member of Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes (OK)
                • “There There”
                • “Wandering Stars”
                  • Stephen Graham Jones - member of the Blackfeet Nation (MT)
                        • Mongrels
                        • My Heart is a Chainsaw
                        • I Was a Teenage Slasher
                          • Joy Harjo - member of the Muscogee Creek Nation (OK)
                                • An American Sunrise
                                • Poet Warrior
                                • Washing My Mother’s Body
                                  • Cherie Dimaline - member of the Metis Nation of Ontario
                                        • Venco
                                        • The Marrow Thieves
                                        • Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
                                          • Robin Wall Kimmerer - member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation (OK)
                                              • Braiding Sweetgrass
                                              • Recent Reads by Indigenous Authors You Need to Check Out:

                                                • “The Mighty Red” by Louise Erdrich
                                                • “The Only Good Indians” by Stephen Graham Jones
                                                • “The Serviceberry” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
                                                • “Shutter” by Ramona Emerson (Dine aka Navajo Nation of the SW United States)
                                                • “The Berry Pickers” by Amanda Peters (Mi’kmaq from the Glooscap First Nation in the Canadian Atlantic provinces)
                                                • “Firekeeper’s Daughter” by Angeline Boulley (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan)
                                                • Brand New/Upcoming Reads:

                                                  • “To the Moon and Back” by Eliana Ramage (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
                                                  • “The Devil is a Southpaw” by Brandon Hobson (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma)
                                                  • “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones 
                                                  • “Girl Warrior” by Joy Harjo
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