Excerpt from novel's description: "A gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past." BLS students: Main character Mitch Caddo is "a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer...."
NPR described this book as a "horror masterpiece" by Prof. Stephen Graham Jones, Excerpt from this historical novel's description: "A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a [member of the] Blackfeet [Nation] named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits."
Publicly accessible report.
Publicly accessible dissertation of Sarah Ashley Whitt (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), who is "a scholar of Native American history and Indigenous experiences at the turn of the twentieth century." Excerpt from dissertation's abstract: "[A]nalyzes the punishment of adult Indian women and men at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918) and the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (1902-1934)."
Young Lawyer Rising podcast episode featuring attorney Mary Smith, immediate past president of the American Bar Association and former CEO of national healthcare organization the Indian Health Service.
Autobiography.
Excerpt from book's description: Journalist Mary Annette Pember's "sweeping and deeply personal account of Native American boarding schools in the United States, and the legacy of abuse wrought by them in an attempt to destroy Native culture and life."
Anthology of essays and poems.
Ordered by BLS Library.
History. Pulitzer Prize winner, 2025.
Short stories. This debut short story collection won many awards, including the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize.
Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Excerpt from publisher's book description: "Before Martha’s Vineyard became one of the most iconic vacation destinations in the country, it was home to the Wampanoag people. Today, as tourists flock to the idyllic beaches, the island has become increasingly unaffordable for tribal members, with nearly three-quarters now living off-island. Growing up Aquinnah Wampanoag, journalist Joseph Lee grappled with what this situation meant for his tribe, how the community can continue to grow, and more broadly, what it means to be Indigenous."
Recording of webinar sponsored by multiple sections of the American Association of Law Schools. Excerpt from this program's description: "This panel centers the rights of Indigenous nations and their citizens to consider what the American rule of law has meant and how the assertion of Indigenous sovereignty is fundamentally changing those historical (mis-)conceptions."
Related sources: Iroquois Genealogy Society provides records of this residential school attended by Hodinöhsö:ni' children. National Museum of the American Indian provides a photo collection of this school's students.
Documentary feature directed by Anne Makepeace. Summary: Summary: "Tribal Justice is a feature documentary about a little known, but effective, criminal justice reform movement in American today: the efforts of tribal courts to create alternative justice systems based on their traditions. In California, two formidable Native American women are among those leading the way. Abby Abinanti, Chief Judge of the Yurok Tribe on the northeast coast, and Claudette White, Chief Judge of the Quechan Tribe in the southeastern desert, are creating innovative systems that focus on restoring rather than punishing offenders in order to keep tribal members out of prison, prevent children from being taken from their communities, and stop the school-to-prison pipeline that plagues their young people."
Novel. Excerpt from book's description: "Pulitzer-Prize Finalist ... Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. "
Fifty poems written and selected by three-term U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (poet, performer, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation).
Presentation by Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis, Supreme Court of Washington.
Lenapehoking: An Anthology
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On p. 14 of the Introduction, Joe Baker (Co-Founder/Executive Director of Lenape Center) states: “This anthology of essays and interviews features leading Indigenous scholars, culture bearers, and artists offering important new scholarship and knowledge of Lenape culture and history that is not readily available to the general public.”
Below is a link to a video of a "Live from NYPL" event held on March 6, 2023 at which contributors to Lenapehoking: An Anthology "explore[d] the personal journeys of people seeking welcome in their ancestral homeland while pushing back against their erasure."
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation sponsors free Native American Heritage Month Events. These events include: Native American Heritage Month: The Lenape (Sun., November 16, 2025, 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. in Inwood Hill Park, NY, NY).
New York Public Library sponsors free events for Native American Heritage Month. BLS Library provides the book that will be featured at this "in person" NYPL book talk: Heritage Book Club: The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (Tues., Nov. 18, 2025, 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. @ the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, Floor 1M.) See also: Rachel Kahn, Native American Heritage Month: Five Films You Can Stream For Free Using Your Library Card (Oct. 30, 2025).
