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November is Native American Heritage Month, and MIT Libraries staff are celebrating by reading and listening to works by native and indigenous authors. These titles were gathered by MIT Reads members and inspired by our recent event with Tommy Orange, author of There There. Check out our guide for discussion prompts, further reading, and more.
Braiding sweetgrass / Robin Wall Kimmere
In mad love and war / Joy Harjo
Love medicine : a novel / Louise Erdrich
Mending skins / Eric Gansworth
Miko Kings : an Indian baseball story / LeAnne Howe
Rez life : an Indian’s journey through reservation life / David Treuer
There there : a novel / Tommy Orange
This wound is a world : poems / Billy-Ray Belcourt
What the Chickadee Knows / Margaret Noodin
When my brother was an Aztec / Natalie Diaz
The woman who married a bear : poems / Tiffany Midge
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