Native American culture is one of the richest in our nation. Share this powerful and important history with your students through these fictional stories, many based on real events and influential figures, and others from some of the most powerful voices in Native American literature today.

These titles are essential additions to any classroom library and can be used throughout the year to supplement lessons on Native American history, Native customs, and colonialism, but especially during Native American Heritage month and Thanksgiving. 

For example, Jingle Dancer is a beautiful picture book about a little girl named Jenna who prepares for an upcoming powwow. Having grown up admiring the women who have danced at powwows in years past, Jenna hopes for her own chance to dance and asks for help from her family and community to make her own dress "sing" for this momentous occasion. 

Meanwhile, middle-grade readers will love The Storyteller, the story of Cherokee boy Ziggy who is dealing with his anxiety and the trauma of losing his mother mysteriously when he was younger. But when Ziggy begins to believe that clues to his mother's disappearance may lie in a nearby cave, he sets out on an adventure with his friends and his sister, Moon, to discovering what happened to her, and how his story is intrinsically tied to the Cherokee storytellers that came before him.

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