Native American Heritage Month 2025
November 1-30
To celebrate Indigenous traditions, languages and stories during Native American Heritage Month, we're highlighting some University Libraries resources and recommended reads.
Wildcat Reads recommendation
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Chippewa)
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. This electrifying thriller is layered with a rich exploration of the modern Native experience, a reckoning of current and historical injustices, and a powerful celebration of community.
Wildcat Reads is a collection of recreational titles over a wide range of genres available for checkout on the 3rd floor of the Main Library.
The University of Arizona Press recommendations
Severalty: Poems by Laura Da’ (Eastern Shawnee)
"Severalty" begins in a garden and moves through ancestral and contemporary hometowns that shimmer between wholeness and severing. The poems shift perspectives to examine devastation and healing, transience and seasonality, loss and resurrection.
Gathering Together, We Decide: Archives of Dispossession, Resistance, and Memory in Ndé Homelands edited by Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache, Ndé), Cynthia Bejarano, Jeffrey P. Shepherd
Based on events on the Texas-Mexico border, this collection spotlights powerful voices and perspectives from Ndé leaders, Indigenous elders, settler allies, Native youth, and others associated with the Tamez family, the Ndé defiance, and the larger Indigenous rights movement.
Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570–1914 by Rick A. López
This work traces how scientific intellectuals studied and debated what it meant to know and claim the flora that sprang from Mexican soil—ranging from individual plants to forests and vegetated landscapes—and the importance they placed on indigeneity. It also points to the short- and long-term consequences of these efforts.
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Indigenous History in the Borderlands LibGuide
LibGuides are subject guides created by librarians that pull all types of information about a particular subject or course of study. Our Indigenous History in the Borderlands LibGuide is the third in a series of libguides focused on the history of marginalized groups in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands including Akimel O'odham, Apache, Chemehuevi, Cocopah, Havasupai, Hopi, Hualapai, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Paiute, Quechan, Seri, Tohono O'odham, Yaqui, Yavapai, and Zuni.
Databases
- North American Indian Drama contains 250+ plays from American Indian and First Nation playwrights.
- American Indian Newspapers provides access to 200+ years of Indigenous journalism from the U.S. and Canada.
- American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism includes FBI documentation on AIM and informant reports and materials.
- You can find more American Indian Studies resources in the A-Z Database guide.