Authors with Indigenous American descent

There are many good books awarded with the American Indian Youth Literature Award. Their website can be checked for good lists too.

Picture books:

At the Mountain’s Base by Traci Sorrel

Awâsis and the World-Famous Bannock by Dallas Hunt

Baby Rattlesnake / Viborita de Cascabel - Lynn Moroney

Bears Make Rock Soup By Lise Erdrich

Birdsong by Julie Flett

Bowwow Powwow by Brenda Child

Crazy Horse's Vision – Joseph Bruchac

Encounter by Brittany Luby

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard

Go Show the World -Wab Kinew

Swift Fox All Along -Rebecca Thomas

The First Blade of Sweetgrass -Suzanne Greenlaw, Gabriel Frey

On the Trapline - David A. Robertson, Julie Flett

When We Were Alone -David A. Robertson, Julie Flett

Stolen Words -Melanie Florence

Sharice’s Big Voice -Sharice Davids, Nancy K. Mays

Greet the Dawn: The Lakota Way by S. D. Nelson

Hungry Johnny Written by Cheryl Kay Minnema and illustrated by Welsey Ballinger

I Sang You Down from the Stars -Tasha Spillett-Sumner

Encounter -Brittany Luby

We Are Water Protectors -Carole Lindstrom

We All Play: kimêtawânaw -Julie Flett

When We are Kind -Monique Gray Smith

Little You:| Gidagaashiinh -Richard Van Camp

First Laugh: Welcome, Baby! -Rose Ann Tahe, Nancy Bo Flood

Raven Squak, Orca Squeak -Roy Henry Vickers, Robert Budd

Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! -Art Coulson

Nibi’s Water Song -Sunshine Tenasco

Johnny’s Pheasant by Cheryl Minnema

Rock and Roll Highway: The Robbie Robertson Story by Sebastian Robertson

Mission To Space by John Herrington

Shaped By Her Hands: Potter Maria Martinez by Anna Harber Freeman (Author), Barbara Gonzales (Author), Aphelandra (Illustrator) Sweetest Kulu by Celina Kalluk

Swift Fox All Along by Rebecca Lea Thomas

The Good Luck Cat by Joy Harjom

The Pencil by Susan Avingaq

Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga - Traci Sorell

We Are Still Here! -Traci Sorell

Welcome Song for Baby by Richard Van Camp

We All Count A Book of Cree Numbers by Julie Flett

Wolf Cub’s Song -Joseph Bruchac

Giving Thanks -Chief Jake Swamp

You Hold Me Up by Monique Gray Smith

Chapter books:

Chula the Fox - Anthony Perry

Code talker by Joseph Bruchac

Surviving the City -Tasha Spillett

Elatsoe -Darcie Little Badger

Apple (Skin to the Core) -Eric Gansworth

Hearts Unbroken -Cynthia Leitich Smith

Found -Joseph Bruchac

Apple in the Middle -Dawn Quigley

Hunting by Stars -Cherie Dimaline

Rain is not my Indian Name -Cynthia Leitich Smith

Fatty Legs - Christy Jordan-Fenton

Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich -Annie Boochever and Roy Peratrovich Jr.

Firekeeper’s Daughter -Angeline Boulley

Give Me Some Truth by Eric Gansworth

Home to Medicine Mountain - Chiori Santiago

How I became A Ghost - Tim Tingle

If I Ever Get Out of Here - Eric Gansworth

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie

Indian No More - Charlene Willing McManis, Traci Sorell

Race to the Sun - Rebecca Roanhorse

Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American Childhood -- EdNah New Rider WeberRez Dogs -Joseph Bruchac

Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend -Dawn Quigley

Stone River Crossing - Tim Tingle

The Barren Grounds -David A. Robertson

Ancestor Approved -Edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Healer of the Water Monster -Brian Young

I Can Make this Promise -Christine Day

The Birchbark House -Louise Erdrich

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

The Sea in Winter - Christine Day Borders -Thomas King

Notable Native People -Adrienne Keene

Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson