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Indigenous Pasts, Presents, Futures

• "Hearts Unbroken" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
• "Indiginerds: Tales from Modern Indigenous Life" edited by Alina Pete
• "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
  RI Teen Book Award Nominee 2009
• "Looking for Smoke" by K.A. Cobell
  RI Teen Book Award Nominee 2026
• "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer and adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith
• "Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and adapted into a graphic novel by Paul Peart-Smith
• "Ours to Tell: Reclaiming Indigenous Stories" by Eldon Yellowhorn & Kathy Lowinger
• "Notable Native People" by Adrienne Keene