Native American Heritage Month 2026

November is Native American Heritage Month, and the library is commemorating the occasion by hosting programs and exploring Native American voices and stories in our collection. We hope you’ll join us at the library for film screenings, book discussions, and a presentation with the Mariners' Museum. Read on to learn more.

PROGRAMS

• PBS: Native America, Season 1 & 2 Film Screenings
  • All screenings 10AM-1PM at Twin Hickory
  • Tuesday, 11/10: Season 1, Episodes 3 & 4
  • Tuesday, 11/17: Season 2, Episodes 1 & 2
  • Tuesday, 11/24: Season 2, Episodes 3 & 4

• Libbie Mill Afternoon & Evening Book Discussions
  • Tuesday, 11/10: 1-2PM AND 7-8PM at Libbie Mill
  • Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

• Foodways of the Americas
  • Saturday, 11/21, 11AM-12PM at Tuckahoe
  • Prior to October 12, 1492, the Americas, both north and south, were teeming with plants, crops, animals, and more that had sustained indigenous populations for thousands of years. Join historians from the Mariners' Museum to learn how these foodways continue to play a major role in American cuisine today. 

COLLECTION

In addition to books in our physical collection, you can find curated lists of Native American stories for Kids, Teens, and Adults on the Libby app and OverDrive!

PICTURE BOOKS

• The Animals Speak: The Lakota Way by S.D. Nelson (also available on Hoopla)
• Aaniin, I See Your Light by Dawn Quigley
• Gathering the Light by Joy Harjo
• Grandmother Moon by Wunneanatsu Lamb-Cason (also available on Hoopla)
• Here Come the Aunties by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• Indigenous from A to Z by Traci Sorell
• Of the Sun: A Poem for the Land’s First Peoples by Xelena González (also available on Hoopla)
• The Ones Who Came Before by Kevin Noble Maillard
• Stories Are the Heart of the World by Laurel Goodluck
• We All Love = kisâkihitonaw by Julie Flett (also available on Hoopla)

KIDS

• The Froggy Library: Welcome to Soggy Stump by Julie Fiveash
• Indigenous Peoples of North America series by Heather Bruegl (also available on Hoopla)
• Jo Jo Makoons series by Dawn Quigley (also available on Hoopla)
• Native Rights series by various authors (also available on Hoopla)
• Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (also available on Hoopla)
• Raven, Rising by Christine Hartman Derr
• Secrets at Sparkhawk Point by Anna Rose Johnson
• The Summer of the Bone Horses by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (also available on Hoopla)
• Tales from Cabin 23: The Sinking House by Darcie Little Badger
• Wolf Club by James Bird

TEENS

• Children of Owl by Darcie Little Badger
• Death in Tallgrass by Andrea L. Rogers
• Fight Song by Kirk Van Brunt
• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• In Our Own Words: True Stories of Indian Boarding Schools edited by Brenda J. Child
• Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith (also available on Hoopla)
• Medicine Wheels by Byron Graves
• Ouroboros series by H.E. Edgmon
• Shards of Silence by Brian Lee Young
• Thunderous by M.L. Smoker (also available on Hoopla)

ADULTS

• A Feather and a Fork by Crystal Wahpepah
• A Grandmother Begins the Story by Michelle Porter (also available on Hoopla)
• Between the Earth and Sky series by Rebecca Roanhorse (Books 2 & 3 available on Hoopla)
• The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters 
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (also available on Hoopla)
• Forgotten Landscapes: How Native Americans Created the Pre-Columbian North America and What We Can Learn from It by Stanley A. Rice
• Jonny Appleseed: A Novel by Joshua Whitehead (also available on Hoopla)
• Never Whistle at Night, Part II: Back for Blood: An Indigenous Horror Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
• Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty 
• Reclaiming Two Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers
• River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan (also available on Hoopla)
• The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer (also available on Hoopla)
• Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina 
• There, There by Tommy Orange 
• To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
• Who Gets to Be Indian? Ethnic Fraud, Disenrollment, and Other Difficult Conversations About Native American Identity by Dina Gilio-Whitaker