Native American Fiction
National Native American Heritage Month, observed in November, honors the histories, cultures, and contributions – historical and ongoing – of American Indians and Alaska Natives. Try these recently published novels by Indigenous authors from Turtle Island. Tribal affiliation(s) listed before annotations. (Updated August 2025)
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Prairie Edge
(Métis) A slow-moving, quietly furious portrait of two Indigenous Canadians and their attempts to ignite a protest movement. (Kirkus)
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Seventhblade
(Michif, Treaty 6) This stirring fantasy debut from video game writer Laird serves as a condemnation of settler colonialism, a celebration of Indigenous wisdom and practices, and a testament to the power of a mother’s love. (Publishers Weekly)
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The Whistler
(Tunica-Biloxi) A young man is haunted by a mythological specter bent on stealing everything he loves in this unsettling horror from the author of Indian Burial Ground. (Publisher description)
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Love Is A War Song
(Chickasaw) A troubled Native American pop star retreats to her estranged grandmother’s ranch in Oklahoma and finds unexpected love. (Kirkus)
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Wandering Stars
(Cheyenne and Arapaho) Traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting in There There. (NoveList)
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Waiting for the Long Night Moon
(Mi'kmaq) Stories of Indigenous experiences across time, from early European contact to modern water-rights activism, depicting resilience through characters like a residential school survivor, a water protector, and a young dancer, all revealing strength and dignity amid systemic hardships. (NoveList)
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Broken Fields
(White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa) Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman, is back on the case after two men are found dead on a rural farm in 1970s Minnesota. (NoveList)
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Moon of the Turning Leaves
(Wasauksing) Years after a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky's community is running out of resources in remote northern Ontario. Evan and his fifteen-year-old daughter, Nangohns, lead a small scouting party to their traditional home on the north shore of Lake Huron, to discover what kind of life--and what dangers--still exist in the lands to the south. (NoveList)
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Silent Are the Dead
(Kiowa) One mystery bleeds into another as a Native woman and her cousin seek a missing headdress that may have instigated a murder. (Kirkus)
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Passing Through A Prairie Country
(Ojibwe) A haunted casino has left the people of the Languille Lake reservation living in constant terror. (Booklist)
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