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Book List for Native American Heritage Month
Our Reach Out and Read San Diego program often discusses the importance of shared reading and offering diverse books as they can act as mirrors to our own lives and windows into the lives of others.
Offering books that celebrate Native American and Indigenous characters and cultures spotlights the diversity, histories, and experiences allowing those who identify as Native American, American Indian, Native, Indigenous, Alaska Native, and/or Native Hawaiian to be seen and heard.
Here are our book recommendations we suggest sharing with your little ones:
5 Books for Indigenous Peoples’ Day
On Powwow Day
On Powwow Day
Traci Sorell
Age group: 0-3
In this board book by best-selling Native author Traci Sorell, discover colors, sounds, and counting from one to ten on powwow day!
Ohana Means Family
Ohana Means Family
Ilima Loomis
Age group: 0-3 years
Join the family, or ohana, as they farm taro for poi to prepare for a traditional luau celebration
Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story
Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story
Danielle Greendeer, Anthony Perry, Alexis Bunten
Age group: 4-6, 7-9 years
In this Wampanoag story told in a Native tradition, two kids from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe learn the story of Weeâchumun (corn) and the first Thanksgiving.
https://www.fbmarketplace.org/keepunumuk-weeachumun-s-thanksgiving-story-134418
Can You Hear the Plants Speak?
Can You Hear the Plants Speak?
Nicholas Hummingbird, Julia Wasson
Age group: 4-6, 7-9 years
A lyrical multigenerational story of the lessons we learn from our plant relatives when we listen to what they have to teach us.
https://www.fbmarketplace.org/can-you-hear-the-plants-speak-142962
How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
Joseph Bruchac
Age group: 7-9 years
What happens when a little brown squirrel teases a big black bear? Brown Squirrel gets stripes and is called chipmunk from that day forward... Joseph and James Bruchac join forces to create this buoyant picture book, based on a Native American folktale.
https://www.fbmarketplace.org/how-chipmunk-got-his-stripes-m113336
Matoaka: The True Story of Pocahontas
Matoaka: The True Story of Pocahontas
DK Super Readers
Age group: 7-9 years
Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about the amazing life of Matoaka, better known today as Pocahontas, with this fact-filled nonfiction reader—carefully leveled to help children progress.
https://www.fbmarketplace.org/matoaka-the-true-story-of-pocahontas-dk-super-readers-level-2-146704
Buffalo Dreamer
Buffalo Dreamer
Violet Duncan
Age group: 7-9 years
An illuminating novel about the importance of reclaiming the past, based on the author’s family history
Colonization and the Wampanoag Story
Colonization and the Wampanoag Story
Linda Coombs
Age group: 10-13 years
Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: the "discovery" of America told by Christopher Columbus, the Pilgrims, and the Colonists. Here's the true story of America from the Indigenous perspective.