Native American Heritage Month 2025

Commemorate Native American Heritage Month with the library! Catch a film, join a book discussion, and learn about regional Indigenous culture and history. Read on for program details and to browse recent titles that highlight Native American stories. 

 PROGRAMS

• Native American Heritage Films
  • Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30PM at Twin Hickory
    • November 5: Slash/Back (2022, NR, 87 min.)
    • November 12: Night Raiders (2021, NR, 97 min.)
    • November 26: Young Ghouls (2013, R, 88 min.)

• Libbie Mill Afternoon & Evening Book Discussions
  • Wednesday November 12 at Libbie Mill: 1PM and 7PM
  • In this expansive family saga, set over the course of 150 years and spanning from California to Pennsylvania, Red Feather descendants wrestle with the generational legacy of Cheyenne cultural erasure, institutionalized violence, and resultant trauma while building lives defiantly studded with joy and hope. Join us for a discussion of Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange.

• Indigenous History & Culture with Eastern Woodland Revitalization
  • Thursday, November 13, 6:30-7:30PM at Libbie Mill
  • In honor of Native American Heritage Month, all are invited to experience the culture, history, and traditional arts of our regional tribal communities with special guests Eastern Woodland Revitalization. Sponsored by the Friends of Henrico County Public Library.

• History of Machicomoco State Park
  • Thursday, November 20, 7-8PM at Tuckahoe
  • Machicomoco State Park is the first Virginia State Park dedicated to supporting the Indigenous history of Virginia. Learn about Tidewater Virginia's Indigenous history and the stories that surround the park, its mission, and what the park is working on today from a Virginia State Park ranger.

COLLECTION

PICTURE BOOKS

• Bowwow Powwow: bagosenjige-niimi'idim by Brenda J. Child
• Brave by Weshoyot Alvitre
• Bud Finds Her Gift by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard (also available on Hoopla)
• The Gift of the Great Buffalo by Carole Lindstrom
• Let’s Go! = Haw êkwa! by Julie Flett (also available on Hoopla)
• Mnoomin maan’gowing: The Gift of Mnoomin by Brittany Luby
• My Little Ogichidaa: An Indigenous Lullaby by Willie Poll
• Of the Sun: A Poem for the Land’s First Peoples by Xelena González (also available on Hoopla)
• Walking Together by Albert D. Marshall (also available on Hoopla)

KIDS

• The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (also available on Hoopla)
• Blastoff! Discovery: Native American Nations series by Liz Sonneborn and Betty Marcks (also available on Hoopla)
• Coming Home: A Hopi Resistance Story by Mavasta Honyouti (also available on Hoopla)
• Finding My Dance by Ria Thundercloud
• Heroes of the Water Monster by Brian Young (also available on Hoopla)
• Indigenous Cultures Today: Protecting Native Families and Practicing Cultural Traditions by Cayla Bellanger DeGroat (also available on Hoopla)
• On a Wing and a Tear by Cynthia Leitich Smith (also available on Hoopla)
• Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (also available on Hoopla)
• The Ribbon Skirt: A Graphic Novel by Cameron Mukwa (also available on Hoopla)
• We Still Belong by Christine Day (also available on Hoopla)

TEENS

• The Art Thievesby Andrea Rogers (also available on Hoopla)
• Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (also available on Hoopla)
• Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories by Kaua Mahe Adams
• Looking for Smokeby K.A. Cobell (also available on Hoopla)
• Marvel Voices: Heritage by Weshoyot Alvitre (also available on Hoopla)
• The Ouroboros series by H.E. Edgmon
• Ours to Tell: Reclaiming Indigenous Stories by Eldon Yellowhorn
• Rez Ballby Byron Graves (also available on Hoopla)
• Sheine Lendeby Darcie Little Badger (also available on Hoopla)
• Sisters in the Wind by Angeline Boulley
• This Indian Kid: A Native American Memoir by Eddie D. Chuculate (also available on Hoopla)
• The Unfinished series by Cheryl Isaacs (also available on Hoopla)

ADULTS

• Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec (also available on Hoopla)
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
• Big Chief: A Novel by Jon Hickey
• Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
• By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
• Old School Indian: A Novel by Aaron John Curtis
• Our Way: A Parallel History: An Anthology of Native History, Reflection, and Story by Julie Cajune (also available on Hoopla)
• Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk
• Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky: Modern Plant-Based Recipes Using Native American Ingredients by Lois Ellen Frank
• The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava