Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: THE ROUNDUP Celebrating Alaska Native Heritage Month and Native American Heritage Month by getting to know books authored/illustrated by Alaska Native creators is great, but know what’s even greater? Fin…

Whether for a Cyber Monday purchase or for reading all year long, here’s all 44 #Indigenous created books from #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth. If you click on the link for that book’s day, there are additional links to purchase all of the #books that were featured.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 28 For this twenty eighth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting coloring books by Indigenous creators from five major Alaska cultural regions. But there are so many more, so leave yo…

For this 28th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting #coloringbooks by #Indigenous creators from five major #Alaska cultural regions. But there are so many more - leave your favorites in the comments!

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 27 We’re doing a little something different for day 27 of Alaska Native Heritage Month, and highlighting several Alaska Native language books. There are 23 Alaska Native languages, and even more diale…

A little something different for the twenty seventh day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth. Instead of a single book we’re highlighting a sampling of #Alaska Native-authored language #books from regions around the state.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 26 On this twenty sixth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting “Iñuksuk: Northern Koyukon, Gwich’in, and Lower Tanana 1800-1901” by Netsaii Gwich’in author Adeline Peter Raboff. It’s …

On this 26th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re celebrating the history book “Iñuksuk” by Netsaii #Gwich’in author Adeline Peter Raboff.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 25 For the twenty fifth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting the beautiful children’s book “How the Devil’s Club Came to Be” by Tlingit writer Miranda Rose Kaagwil Worl and Tlingit …

On this twenty fifth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “How the Devil’s Club Came to Be” by #Tlingit writer Miranda Rose Kaagwil Worl & Tlingit illustrator Michaela Goade, Lingít language version by Tlingit Elder Florence Sheakley.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 24 We’re headed back to children’s literature for this twenty fourth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month. “Uluit Atuqtaatka” by Inupiat/Kiowa writer and illustrator Kunaq Marjorie Tahbone is all about…

For this 24th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting #Inupiat #Kiowa artist Kunaq Marjorie Tahbone’s children’s book “Uluit Atuqtaatka.”

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 23 For the twenty third day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we are highlighting a memoir by Aleut/Yup’ik writer Alexis C. Bunten, “So, How Long Have You Been Native?” Her essays explore Alaska Native…

On this 23rd day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting the #memoir “So, How Long Have You Been Native?” by #Aleut #Yup’ik scholar Alexis C. Burton.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 22 On this twenty second day of Alaska Native Heritage Month and we’re highlighting “Bekk’aatugh Ts’uhuney: Stories We Live By” from Koyukon Athabascan storyteller Catherine Attla. These a…

On this 22nd day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting Koyukon #Athabascan storyteller Catherine Attla’s “Bekk'aatugh Ts'uhuney: Stories We Live By.”

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenous #dine #books #booksky #authors #womenwriters #alaskanative

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 21 On this twenty first day of Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re highlighting “The Winter Walk” by Inupiat author Loretta Outwater Cox. It’s a tough, true story passed to the author from her ancestor…

On this 21st day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “The Winter Walk” by #Inupiat author Loretta Outwater Cox.

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanative #indigenous #books #booksky #writer #inupiaq #inuit #nativebooks #indigenousauthor #alaska

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 20 On this twentieth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re highlighting Inupiat/Tlingit/Nisga’a writer Lily H. Tuzroyluke’s “Sivuliiq,” a fictional work with strong historical foundation. Inupiat/…

On this 20th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting #Inupiat #Tlingit #Nisga’a #writer Lily H. Tuzroyluke’s #novel “Sivuliiq.” A fictional #book with historical foundation.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 19 On this nineteenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re highlighting “My Side of the River” by Yup’ik writer Elias Kelly. In this memoir Elias gives a unique look at ecological and legal discu…

On this 19th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting #Yup’ik agricultural specialist Elias Kelly’s memoir about life in #Alaska.

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanative #yupik #indigenous #books #booksky #writer #author #native #nativeamerican

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 18 On this eighteenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re celebrating “Life Woven With Song” by Tlingit scholar Nora Marks Dauenhauer. It’s a beautiful collection of poems, plays, and stories. …

On this 18th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re celebrating #Tlingit scholars Nora Marks Dauenhauer’s “Life Woven With Song.”

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 17 For our seventeenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting “How Raven Got His Crooked Nose.” This is a traditional Dena’ina story retold by Dena’ina mother/son team Barbara J. Atwa…

On this seventeenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting the children’s #picturebook “How the Raven Got His Crooked Nose” by #Dena’ina mother/son team Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 16 On our sixteenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting “Courtesans of Flounder Hill” by Tlingit/Inupiat poet Ishmael Hope. While Ishmael has a considerable catalogue, including ad…

For our sixteenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting Tlingit/Inupiat poet Ishmael Hope’s book “Courtesans of Flounder Hill.”

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #alaskanativeheritagemonth #tlingit #inupiat #poetry #books #writer #alaska #booksky

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 15 We’re halfway through Alaska Native Heritage Month, and highlighting “Fifty Miles from Tomorrow,” a memoir from Inupiat leader William Iġġiaġruk Hensley. Willie Hensley is one of the foremost Nativ…

Halfway through #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth and we’re highlighting #Inupiat leader Willie Hensley’s #memoir “Fifty Miles from Tomorrow.”

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 13 On this thirteenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re celebrating “Celebration” by Tlingit artist Lily Hope. It’s a picture book highlighting the every-other-year gathering of culture in Jun…

For this 13th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re celebrating “Celebration” by #Tlingit artist Lily Hope, illustrated by Tlingit artist Kelsey Mata Foote.

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #indigenous #books #childrensbooks #picturebooks #alaskanative #alaska

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 13 Today’s book highlight for Alaska Native Heritage Month is kind of a dozens-for-one gift, “The Alaska Native Reader,” edited by Tlingit scholar Maria Sháa Tláa Williams. There are essays about Alas…

We get dozens of #Indigenous writers in one for today’s #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth #book, “The Alaska Native Reader,” edited by Tlingit scholar Maria Shaa Tláa Williams.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 12 One of our most prolific contemporary Alaska Native poets is Inupiat writer Joan Naviyuk Kane, and so for the twelfth day celebrating Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re holding up “Hyperboreal.” Th…

For the twelfth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting Inupiat poet Joan Naviyuk Kane’s beautiful book of poetry, “Hyperboreal.”

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry #indigenous #inupiat #inupiaq #alaska #writer #alaskanative

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 11 There are some really great children’s picture books written by Alaska Native authors, like “Am’ala,” written by Tlingit author Frank Henry Kaash Katasse. It’s available in either Smʼalgyax or Engl…

Our first large format children’s picture book for #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth is “Am’ala” by #Tlingit writer Frank Kaash Katasse.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 10 Our tenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month celebration brings us Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup‘s “The Museum of Unnatural Histories.” The unique style gives the reader a really special poetic exp…

Celebrating the tenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth with Dena’ina poet Annie Wenstrup’s “The Museum of Unnatural Histories.”

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #poetry #indigenous #nativeheritagemonth #athabascan #book

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 9 On this ninth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting a book that examines life pre- and during first contact with the Western world. “Once Upon an Eskimo Time” is by Inupiat artist…

On this ninth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth, Inupiat artist Edna Wilder takes us on a year of her mother’s life as she is introduced to the Western world for the first time, in “Once Upon an Eskimo Time.”

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 8 Infant and toddler age is so incredibly important to a person’s formative reading time, and so for the eighth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re highlighting the “Button Up!: Fall in Alaska”…

Time to focus on the littles! On our eighth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth, we’re highlighting the board #book “Button Up!: Fall in Alaska” by Koyukon Athabascan writer Angela Y. Gonzalez

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 7 We’re headed back into poetry for the seventh day of Alaska Native Heritage Month. “Gagaan X’usyee: Below the Foot of the Sun” is a beautiful and touching collection of poems by Tlingit/Haida/Yup’i…

We’re headed back into poetry for the seventh day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth. “Gagaan X’usyee: Below the Foot of the Sun” is a touching collection of poems by Tlingit/Haida/Yup’ik/Sami writer X̱’unei Lance Twitchell.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 6 “Attu Boy” is the memoir of Unungan survivor Nick Golodoff who, at the age of six, was captured by Japanese soldiers on the island of Attu during World War II. For the sixth day of Alaska Native He…

“Attu Boy” is the memoir of Unungan survivor Nick Golodoff who was captured by Japanese soldiers on the island of Attu during World War II. Highlighting this extraordinary story for the 6th day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth #books #nativeamericanheritagemonth

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 5 For the fifth day celebrating Alaska Native Heritage Month we’re highlighting “A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit” by Yup’ik scholar Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley. In this examination o…

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY FIVE

For the fifth day celebrating #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit” by #Yup’ik scholar Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 4 Celebrating the fourth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting “Roughly for the North” by Inupiat writer Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen. This beautiful book of poetry centers on Carrie’s an…

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY FOUR

On this fourth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “Roughly for the North” by Inupiat writer Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen.

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#alaska #alaskanative #inupiaq
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 3 Our third book highlight for Alaska Native Heritage Month is “Eagle Drums” by Inupiat author Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson. It’s a middle-grade story about cultural origins and beautiful legend, and in 20…

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY 3

Our third book highlight for #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth is “Eagle Drums” by #Inupiat author Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson. It’s a middle grade book that received a #NewberyHonor in 2024.

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 2 Our second book for Alaska Native Heritage Month is “Blonde Indian” by Tlingit writer Ernestine Hayes. It’s a celebrated memoir about Ernestine, who was also Alaska State Writer Laureate from 2016-…

Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: DAY TWO

For our second book celebrating #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting “Blonde Indian” by #Tlingit author Ernestine Shaankalaxt Hayes.

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Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month is celebrated each November to honor the rich cultures, traditions, and contributions of Native American and Alaska Native peoples. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth