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@unmpress.bsky.social

The Indians Won by Martin Cruz Smith was rated one of the best Native Studies books of 2025! 🥳 📚️
Check out the rest below:
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The Best Native Studies Books of 2025

Whether fiction, history, or memoir, great storytelling stands the test of time. Our annual list assembles some of the finest Native works published this past year.

tribalcollegejournal.org

May 24, 2026 at 3:02 PM

Leah

@roundhound.bsky.social

🐦 The Chickadee Reader is a native-authored book highlight that we do in our Discord server.

Starting off with a native lit CLASSIC! House Made of Dawn by Momaday!

#booksky #nativelit #indigenous #native

May 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM

America Meredith

@ahalenia.bsky.social

Join me and fellow Native artists and authors at Belle Isle Library today through 4pm. Children’s activities, free!

#NativeArt #nativeauthors #Indigenousart #indigenousauthors #nativelit #BelleIsle #OKC

November 16, 2024 at 8:09 PM

⋆｡°✩Kinsale Drake⋆｡°✩

@kinsaledrake.bsky.social

my book spotted at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City!! im so excited to read there this month!! #staciedenetsosie #nativelit

January 3, 2025 at 11:52 AM

Things I'm Reading

@thingsimreading.bsky.social

Awesome! Congratulations & adding to my list.
#nativelit #booksky

Writers' Trust of Canada @writerstrust.bsky.social · Nov 14

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit

November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM

MichaelBurke

@michaelsreading.bsky.social

www.netgalley.com/book/800757/...
5 Star Read. Dark Clouds on the Red Road.
@eccobooks.bsky.social
#Books #BookSky #NativeLit

Wisdom Corner

I just reviewed Wisdom Corner by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

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July 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM

Things I'm Reading

@thingsimreading.bsky.social

You see, in many ways, the ceremonies have always been changing.”

#writing #novels #booksky #literature #readersoftiktok #LitTok #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity#Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans #Nativelit #booksky #reading
4/4

September 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM

Things I'm Reading

@thingsimreading.bsky.social

Faves from Jeffrey Gibson’s work:

#Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans #Nativelit #booksky #reading #choctaw #cherokee #queer

“Dance for Me"
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August 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Leah

@roundhound.bsky.social

Come hang out with the Chickadee Books crew while we visit with Metis author Griffin Bjerke-Clarke!

Griffin is the author of "He Who Would Walk the Earth", a novel that explores themes of identity and memory.

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#indigenous #booksky #native #nativelit

May 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Anton Treuer

@antontreuer.bsky.social

Trauma and Tragedy Tropes: My Frustration with Native Lit

#nativelit #reading

April 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM

Things I'm Reading

@thingsimreading.bsky.social

From “Hardwiring Normalization” by Rafeef Ziadeh
www.merip.org/2025/1...

#Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans #Nativelit #booksky #reading#booksky #reading #indigenous #palestinian #palestine #occupation
10/10

Hardwiring Normalization—Infrastructures, Extraction and Gaza’s Future

In the summer of 2025, a 38-page blueprint circulating inside the Trump administration was leaked to the press: the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust. At first glance, it resembled countless other speculative development schemes, renderings of luxury resorts, free-trade zones and smart cities. Gaza, the plan insisted,

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October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM

Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press

@lupdistribution.bsky.social

"Modernity in Motion" by David J. Carlson is a bold study of #Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor, tracing his idea of "transmotion" across White Earth, occupied Paris & post-Hiroshima Japan to rethink Indigenous sovereignty on a global scale.
From #MSUP
#IndigenousStudies #NativeLit
bit.ly/3ThEzz7

September 14, 2026 at 11:15 AM

America Meredith

@ahalenia.bsky.social

Books Are Good Medicine is a podcast exploring books and other K-12 teaching resources on the Native American experience.

www.booksaregoodmedicine.com

#nativelit #nativepodcasts #nativeeducation

Books are Good Medicine

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November 29, 2024 at 6:24 PM

Things I'm Reading

@thingsimreading.bsky.social

Excerpt from “After Nora: On Preserving the Lenape Language - An interview with Jim Rementer” by Margie Cook from Lenapehoking: An Anthology - ed Joe Baker, Hadrien Coumans & Joel Whitney. #Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans #Nativelit
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July 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM

snow flea

@h-nivicola.bsky.social

20 Days of Books (8/20)

Share 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you

☝🏼 One book per day
⛔️ No particular order
🙅🏻‍♀️ No explanations
🚫 No reviews
✨ Just covers (use ALT text so we can all participate)

#booksky #20daybookchallenge #fantasy #YAbooks #Nativelit #asexual #OCD

The image is an ebook cover. The background is grey but is almost totally obscured by ghostly white dogs racing across the page. Standing in their midst is a girl in a reddish-brown coat and grey pants. She is slight of stature with cool-toned brown skin and black shoulder-length hair that is being whipped to one side by all the rushing dog spirits. Her face is calm as though she is at ease in the chaos. The title of the book is in blue green cursive script right in the center: Elatsoe. At the bottom is script that matches the girl's jacket and spells out: Darcie Little Badger - Illustrations by Rovina Cai.

February 26, 2025 at 3:05 AM

Shel

@sh-el88.bsky.social

A first glimpse of Jett in regalia- a moment that changes everything.
#serialfiction # NativeLit # VignetteWriting # TwoSpiritStories

May 28, 2026 at 10:41 PM

Shel

@sh-el88.bsky.social

50 chapters are up, with more coming — surprises, laughs, and heart‑tugging ahead. Link in bio for easy reading, subscribe if you're enjoying the story as the connections deepen.

#TwoSpirit #NativeLit #VignetteWriting #SlowBurn #NativeAuthor #IndigenousStories #AS #spoonie

May 25, 2026 at 9:11 PM

Shel

@sh-el88.bsky.social

"Quiet isn't weird, Jace. It’s just new to you."

Finally drew Jett for Chapter 3 of 'The Gremlin and the Ghost' on Substack. I had to include his masaani’s handkerchief—it’s part of that "centeredness" Aaron notices.

Is this the Jett you envisioned?

#NativeLit #Indigiqueer #CharacterDesign

March 23, 2026 at 8:39 PM

Shel

@sh-el88.bsky.social

Chapter 3 will be posted tomorrow on Substack. Chapter 4 on Thursday. I'll post 2 chapters each week on substack.
#nativelit#writingcommunity#queerromance#indigiqueer#twospirit

March 23, 2026 at 1:45 AM