Indigenous Writers

"Blue Bearies" is a follow-up to the popular 2018 children’s book "Bowwow Powwow" written by Brenda Child, illustrated by Jonathan Thunder, and translated by Gordon Jourdain.

Family, friends and skateboarding are at the center of this heartfelt and compelling new young adult novel “Medicine Wheels” by Red Lake Nation writer Byron Graves.

Grand Rapids Area Library children's librarian Tracy Kampa shares her recommendations on new children’s books by Indigenous authors including Jen Moudahi, Maria DesJarlait, Michaela Goade, and more. Also, new books by Kate DiCamillo and Kate Messner.

Dennis E. Staples' new novel "Passing Through a Prairie Country" is a spine-chilling and darkly humorous thriller taking place in a Northern Minnesota casino.

Children's librarian Tracy Kampa and “What We're Reading” producer and librarian Tammy Bobrowsky discuss Cynthia Leitich Smith's new book "On a Wing and a Tear."

Stories of humor, mischief and misbehaving from Larry Amik Smallwood as told to Michael Migizi Sullivan Sr. in “Plums or Nuts: Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor.”

Minnesota writer Marcie Rendon’s engaging thriller “Where They Last Saw Her” highlights community and the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, or MMIW.

The acclaimed Bemidji author and Ojibwe professor’s debut novel is part coming-of-age, part thriller, set in Nigigoonsiminikaaning First Nation.

Photographer Travis Novitsky and astrophysicist Annette S. Lee collaborate on a book celebrating the science of and our connections to the northern lights and night skies.

“A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids” reunites us with the people of Mozhay Point Ojibwe Reservation as past converges with present and both the land and the people reveal their secrets.