Children's Books by North American First Nations/Indigenous Peoples

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My Heart Fills With Happiness
My Heart Fills With Happiness 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,740 ratings
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Fatty Legs: A True Story
Fatty Legs: A True Story 4.08 avg rating β€” 3,738 ratings
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When We Were Alone
When We Were Alone 4.46 avg rating β€” 1,934 ratings
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Sweetest Kulu
Sweetest Kulu 4.21 avg rating β€” 1,184 ratings
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Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: L'alfabet di Michif / Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet
Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: L'alfabet di Michif / Owls See Clearly at Night: A Michif Alphabet 4.33 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
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We Sang You Home
We Sang You Home 4.08 avg rating β€” 753 ratings
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Wild Berries
Wild Berries 3.98 avg rating β€” 525 ratings
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We All Count: A Book of Cree Numbers
We All Count: A Book of Cree Numbers 4.51 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Little You
Little You 4.27 avg rating β€” 1,189 ratings
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Stolen Words
Stolen Words 4.53 avg rating β€” 1,160 ratings
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story 4.40 avg rating β€” 6,694 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 4.06 avg rating β€” 281,459 ratings
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A Day with Yayah
A Day with Yayah 3.89 avg rating β€” 304 ratings
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Race to the Sun
Race to the Sun 4.03 avg rating β€” 5,955 ratings
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Thunder Boy Jr.
Thunder Boy Jr. 4.16 avg rating β€” 4,904 ratings
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The Sockeye Mother (Mothers of Xsan #1)
The Sockeye Mother (Mothers of Xsan #1) 4.30 avg rating β€” 107 ratings
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The Good Luck Cat
The Good Luck Cat
by: Joy Harjo
3.80 avg rating β€” 315 ratings
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For a Girl Becoming (Volume 66) (Sun Tracks)
For a Girl Becoming (Volume 66) (Sun Tracks)
by: Joy Harjo
4.30 avg rating β€” 172 ratings
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Crazy Horse's Vision
Crazy Horse's Vision 4.05 avg rating β€” 353 ratings
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Hidden Roots
Hidden Roots 3.72 avg rating β€” 393 ratings
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On This Long Journey, the Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, the Trail of Tears, 1838
On This Long Journey, the Journal of Jesse Smoke, a Cherokee Boy, the Trail of Tears, 1838 3.67 avg rating β€” 451 ratings
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The First Strawberries
The First Strawberries 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,244 ratings
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The Birchbark House
The Birchbark House 4.04 avg rating β€” 12,417 ratings
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The Elders Are Watching
The Elders Are Watching 4.40 avg rating β€” 78 ratings
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The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood
The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood 4.05 avg rating β€” 423 ratings
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The Arrow Over the Door
The Arrow Over the Door 3.31 avg rating β€” 639 ratings
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Jingle Dancer
Jingle Dancer 4.09 avg rating β€” 954 ratings
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Birdsong
Birdsong 4.25 avg rating β€” 1,660 ratings
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Black Bear Red Fox
Black Bear Red Fox 4.12 avg rating β€” 104 ratings
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Muskrat Will Be Swimming
Muskrat Will Be Swimming 4.33 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
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The Spirit Trackers
The Spirit Trackers 3.60 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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Shi-shi-etko
Shi-shi-etko 4.31 avg rating β€” 609 ratings
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The Secret of Your Name: Proud To Be MΓ©tis / Kiimooch ka shinikashooyen: aen kishchitaymook aen li Michif iwik
The Secret of Your Name: Proud To Be MΓ©tis / Kiimooch ka shinikashooyen: aen kishchitaymook aen li Michif iwik 4.13 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales
The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other Native American Folktales 4.12 avg rating β€” 233 ratings
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Long Powwow Nights
Long Powwow Nights 4.04 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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Zoe and the Fawn
Zoe and the Fawn 3.61 avg rating β€” 183 ratings
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The Legend of Lightning and Thunder
The Legend of Lightning and Thunder 3.94 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
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Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light
Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light 4.05 avg rating β€” 286 ratings
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Una Huna?: What Is This?
Una Huna?: What Is This? 3.30 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim
Bowwow Powwow : Bagosenjige-niimi'idim 3.68 avg rating β€” 872 ratings
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The Caterpillar Woman
The Caterpillar Woman 3.92 avg rating β€” 49 ratings
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Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad: A Traditional Navajo Story
Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad: A Traditional Navajo Story 3.83 avg rating β€” 71 ratings
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The Drum Calls Softly
The Drum Calls Softly 3.54 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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Grandpa's Girls
Grandpa's Girls 3.60 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
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Raccoon's Last Race: A Traditional Abenaki Story
Raccoon's Last Race: A Traditional Abenaki Story 3.95 avg rating β€” 113 ratings
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Shin-chi's Canoe
Shin-chi's Canoe 4.26 avg rating β€” 438 ratings
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Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving
Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving 4.02 avg rating β€” 741 ratings
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Nokum Is My Teacher
Nokum Is My Teacher 4.14 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
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Ancient Thunder
Ancient Thunder
by: Leo Yerxa
3.68 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
50.
A Promise Is a Promise
A Promise Is a Promise really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,654 ratings
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Legends of the Seminoles
Legends of the Seminoles 4.35 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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Dawn Raid
Dawn Raid 3.96 avg rating β€” 667 ratings
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Nimoshom and His Bus
Nimoshom and His Bus 3.93 avg rating β€” 215 ratings
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Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock (Young Native Boy Series)
Young Water Protectors: A Story About Standing Rock (Young Native Boy Series) 4.34 avg rating β€” 155 ratings
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SkySisters
SkySisters 4.04 avg rating β€” 257 ratings
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Patrick Desjarlait: Conversations With a Native American Artist
Patrick Desjarlait: Conversations With a Native American Artist 4.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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May We Have Enough to Share
May We Have Enough to Share 4.34 avg rating β€” 278 ratings
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Something Weird Is Going On
Something Weird Is Going On 2.29 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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Talking Leaves
Talking Leaves 3.88 avg rating β€” 338 ratings
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Powwow Counting in Cree
Powwow Counting in Cree 4.65 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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Why the Monster
Why the Monster 3.90 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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The Enchanted Caribou
The Enchanted Caribou 3.50 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
63.
Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
by: Leo Yerxa
4.21 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)
The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1) 3.88 avg rating β€” 5,547 ratings
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Raven's Cry
Raven's Cry 4.05 avg rating β€” 76 ratings
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Orca's Song
Orca's Song 4.17 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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Sila and the Land
Sila and the Land 4.83 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Raven Returns the Water
Raven Returns the Water 4.19 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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How Rabbit Tricked Otter and Other Cherokee Trickster Stories
How Rabbit Tricked Otter and Other Cherokee Trickster Stories 4.25 avg rating β€” 44 ratings
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Discovering Animals
Discovering Animals 3.88 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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When We Are Kind
When We Are Kind 4.24 avg rating β€” 732 ratings
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Raven & Snipe
Raven & Snipe 3.82 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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How Turtle's Back Was Cracked: A Traditional Cherokee Tale
How Turtle's Back Was Cracked: A Traditional Cherokee Tale 3.79 avg rating β€” 58 ratings
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Bearwalker
Bearwalker 3.68 avg rating β€” 347 ratings
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ᑕᐃᒃᓱα’ͺα“‚αŠα“—α’ƒ / Way Back Then
ᑕᐃᒃᓱα’ͺα“‚αŠα“—α’ƒ / Way Back Then 3.82 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
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T'aal: The One Who Takes Bad Children
T'aal: The One Who Takes Bad Children liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Trail of Tears (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5)
Trail of Tears (Step-Into-Reading, Step 5) 3.99 avg rating β€” 324 ratings
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Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story
Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story 3.61 avg rating β€” 90 ratings
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Raven's Flight
Raven's Flight 4.17 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Little Bear's Vision Quest
Little Bear's Vision Quest 3.25 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
81.
α‘­α“―α’₯ ᑕᐃα’ͺᐃᑉᐸᒃᑐᑦ αŠα–α•α•‹α•†α”­α•‹α“‚ / Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown
α‘­α“―α’₯ ᑕᐃα’ͺᐃᑉᐸᒃᑐᑦ αŠα–α•α•‹α•†α”­α•‹α“‚ / Kisimi Taimaippaktut Angirrarijarani / Only in My Hometown 3.54 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
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Swift Fox All Along
Swift Fox All Along 4.19 avg rating β€” 232 ratings
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The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada 4.33 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Spirit Quest
Spirit Quest 3.67 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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The Moccasins
The Moccasins 4.26 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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A Journey to the Mother of the Sea
A Journey to the Mother of the Sea 4.21 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
85.
Nibi Is Water
Nibi Is Water 4.01 avg rating β€” 69 ratings
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Time of the Thunderbird
Time of the Thunderbird it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Whale Girl
Whale Girl liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Wabi: A Hero's Tale
Wabi: A Hero's Tale 3.92 avg rating β€” 271 ratings
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Dancing Feathers
Dancing Feathers 4.50 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
92.
We Are Water Protectors
We Are Water Protectors 4.49 avg rating β€” 8,575 ratings
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NAPI and the Rock: Level 3 Reader
NAPI and the Rock: Level 3 Reader it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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A Coyote Solstice Tale
A Coyote Solstice Tale 3.83 avg rating β€” 318 ratings
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NAPI and the Rock: Level 2 Reader
NAPI and the Rock: Level 2 Reader 4.60 avg rating β€” 10 ratings
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Meet Lydia: A Native Girl From Southeast Alaska
Meet Lydia: A Native Girl From Southeast Alaska 3.80 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
97.
NAPI and the Bullberries: Level 3 Reader
NAPI and the Bullberries: Level 3 Reader 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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The Fox Wife
The Fox Wife 3.75 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails
Northern Lights: The Soccer Trails 3.83 avg rating β€” 63 ratings
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NAPI and the Bullberries: Level 2 Reader
NAPI and the Bullberries: Level 2 Reader 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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