November is Native American Heritage Month! To help bookstores and libraries celebrate, we’ve put together this roundup of 11 books of poetry and nonfiction to spotlight all month and year-round. (We publish longer reading lists each month as well—check out our most recent reading list for Native American Heritage Month for more books to feature!)
Poetry
The 3rd Thing | September 12, 2023
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 9781737925842
In this poetry collection, Hart “navigates the twisting dynamics of a family that is both Native and settler.”
Trio House Press | July 1, 2025
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 9781949487367
This poetry collection “embodies the meaning of the word ‘mele’—a Hawaiian song or chant traditionally used to preserve history through the oral tradition.”
Season Unleashed by Anna Odessa Linzer
Empty Bowl | April 9, 2024
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 9798988370147
Linzer’s latest poetry collection “evokes the dramatic yet subtle beauty of the Salish Sea bioregion in intimate detail based on the author’s long acquaintance, close attention, and deep reflection.”
Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
Red Hen Press | April 8, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781636282084
The core of Paschen’s forthcoming poetry collection “grapples with a dark period of American history, ‘The Reign of Terror,’ when outsiders murdered individual members of the Osage for their oil headrights.”
Siren of Atlantis by Cedar Sigo
Wave Books | April 15, 2025
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9798891060135
The poems in this collection “speak to Sigo’s profound experience of learning to write again after suffering a stroke in 2022.”
A Woman’s Life on the Edge of the Sea by Irene Skyriver
Green Writers Press | October 10, 2023
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group
ISBN: 9798987070772
In this debut collection, Skyriver “delves deep into her family and heritage and into the richness of nature and Mother Earth.”
Nonfiction
Verb Animate: Poetry and Prose from Collaborative Acts by Heid E. Erdrich
Trio House Press | 2024
Distributor: Ingram
ISBN: 9781949487503
This collection of poems and reflections “explores the nuances and joys of Erdrich’s artistic collaborations with Twin Cities choreographers, visual artists, digital artists, and others.”
Haymarket Books | July 16, 2024
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9798888900826
Now available in paperback, this book features a new afterword by Estes about “the rising indigenous campaigns to protect our environment from extractive industries and to shape new ways of relating to one another and the world.”
Warrior Princesses Strike Back by Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart-White
Feminist Press | January 24, 2023
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781558612938
“Interspersing personal memoir with radical notions of self-help and collective recovery,” this book explores “how Indigenous activist strategies can be a crucial roadmap for contemporary truth and healing.”
SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide by Cannupa Hanska Luger
Ayin Press/Aora Books | September 2, 2025
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 9781961814264
This hybrid work “seeks to reimagine Indigenous life and culture in a postcolonial world where space exploration has reduced and reconfigured the earth’s population.”
Positively Uncivilized by Rena Priest
Raven Chronicles Press | August 4, 2025
Distributor: IngramSpark
ISBN: 9798991403238
This essay collection “examines the impact of human inhabitants on planet earth” and includes “personal accounts of the deterioration of salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest and the loss of Indigenous history.”
