The BIPOC Book Display, curated by Shandiin Largo ’23, was on display on the first floor of H-L Library through the 2021-22 academic year. The display highlighted materials held at the Bowdoin Library.
The recording of Shandiin Largo’s conversation with Carmen Greenlee is on Facebook.
Shandiin’s curator’s statement:
I would like to recognize that Bowdoin College is located on the traditional homelands of the Abenaki People. The Abenaki are members of the Wabanaki Confederacy, or “People of the Dawn,” which include five member nations: the Abenaki, Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, and the Penobscot. I pay my respects to the Wabanaki Confederacy who have been and continue to be on this land as the original inhabitants and caretakers of what is now known as the State of Maine. I also want to recognize their enduring stewardship over their homelands, their resistance to ongoing forms of settler colonialism, and their resilience in preserving ancestral knowledge and practices for future generations.
Yá’át’ééh, shí eí Shandiin Largo yiniishye. ’Ádóone’é nishłínígíí ‘éí ‘Áshįįhi nishłį́, Kinyaa’áanii bashishchiin, Tódich’ii’nii dashicheii, dóó Ts’ah yisk’idnii dashinalí. Ákót’éego diné asdzáán nishłį́. Tséta’ tó’alk’olí dee naasha adoo Bowdoin College dee’ ííníshta.’
My name is Shandiin Largo, I am Salt clan, born for Towering House clan. My maternal grandfather is Bitter Water clan, and my paternal grandfather is Sagebrush Hill clan. In this way, I am a Diné woman. I am from the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Reservation—Casamero Lake, New Mexico. I am currently in my third year at Bowdoin College.
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, and as part of an ongoing BIPOC series at the Bowdoin College Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, I present to you a snapshot of Indigenous literature, with special focus on contemporary Indigenous authors who have published works within the past year. This collection showcases the complicated history between Indigenous populations and settler colonial powers in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Hawai’i, Russia, and Australia, and includes works from the late 1960s to today. Additionally, I have included a variety of genres, from children’s books, graphic novels, and poetry books to memoirs, horror fiction novels, and academic history books that center Indigenous identities and experiences. The main purpose of this book display is to dispel racist and harmful stereotypes made about Indigenous peoples that still exist in the media and in our classrooms.
As a member of an institution and a society that have been the perpetrators of the dehumanization, exoticization, and erasure of Indigenous peoples, you should let this book display and its contents remind you that Indigenous peoples still exist and are thriving. I hope this book display also reminds you that the work to achieve racial equality and justice does not stop with representation but continues with you and me.
Axhee’ee, Thank you.
The book list
| Author | Title | Call Number | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akiwenzie-Damm, Katerie | This Place: 150 Years Retold | PN6732 .T48 2019 | Graphic Novel |
| Alexie, Sherman | Blasphemy | PS3551.L35774 B53 2012 | Fiction |
| Alexie, Sherman | Ten Little Indians | PS3551.L35774 T46 2003 | Fiction |
| Álvarez, Noé | Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land | GV1065.23.N67 A48 2020 | Biography |
| Anderson, Kim | A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood | E98.W8 A53 2000b | Nonfiction |
| Barnaby, Jeff | Blood Quantum | DVD PN1997.2 .B5826 2020 | Horror |
| Barnaby, Jeff | Rhymes for Young Ghouls | Online streaming access | Horror |
| Beardslee, Louis | Words Like Thunder: New and Used Anishinaabe Prayers | PS3602.E255 W67 2020 | Poetry |
| Bearhead, Charlene | Siha Tooskin Knows the Strength of His Hair | PS8603.E3527 S63 | Children’s Fiction |
| Belcourt, Billy-Ray | NDN Coping Mechanisms | PR9199.4.B448 N39 2019 | Poetry |
| Bellecourt, Clyde H. | The Thunder Before the Storm: the Autobiography of Clyde Bellecourt | E99.C6 B425 2016 | Autobiography |
| Belin, Esther G. | The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature | PS508.I5 D56 2021 | Anthology |
| Benaway, Gwen | Day/ Break | PR9199.4.B45945 D39 2020 | Poetry |
| Boivin, Lisa | I Will See You Again | E99.T56 B63 2020 | Young Adult Fiction |
| Charles, Mark | Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery | E93 .C428 2019 | History |
| Cunningham, Francine | On/Me | PR9199.4.C8645 O6 2019 | Poetry |
| Curtice, Kaitlin B. | Native Identity: Belonging & Rediscovering God | E99.P8 C87 2020 | Autobiography |
| Deloria, Philip Joseph | Playing Indian | E98.P99 D45 1998 | Nonfiction |
| Deloria, Vine | Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence | E93 .D35 | Political Nonfiction |
| Deloria, Vine | Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto | E93 .D36 1988 | Political Nonfiction |
| Diaz, Natalie | Postcolonial Love Poem | PS3604.I186 A6 2020 | Poetry |
| Diaz, Natalie | When My Brother Was An Aztec | PS3604.I186 W47 2012 | Poetry |
| Dillon, Grace | Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction | PN6120.95.S33 W35 2012 | Anthology |
| Dimaline, Cherie | Empire of Wild | PR9199.4.D56 E47 2021 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Dimaline, Cherie | The Marrow Thieves | PR9199.4.D56 M37 2017 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne | An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States | E76.8 .D86 2014 | History |
| Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne | Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion | E175 .D86 2021 | History |
| Earling, Debra Magpie | Perma Red | PS3605.A765 P47 2003 | Historical Fiction |
| Elliott, Alicia | A Mind Spread Out on the Ground | E78.C2 E487 2020 | Autobiography |
| Emezi, Akwaeke | Pet | PZ7.1.E474 Pet 2019 | Horror |
| Erdrich, Heid E. | Little Big Bully | PS3555.R418 L58 2020 | Poetry |
| Erdrich, Louise | Future Home of the Living God | PS3555.R42 F88 2017 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Erdrich, Louise | Love Medicine | PS3555.R42 L6 1993 | Fiction |
| Erdrich, Louise | The Night Watchman | PS3555.R42 N54 2020 | Historical Fiction |
| Fajardo-Anstine, Kali | Sabrina & Corina | PS3606.A396 S23 2019 | Fiction |
| Febos, Melissa | Abandon Me | PS3606.E26 Z44 2018 | Autobiography |
| Ford, Kelli Jo | Crooked Hallelujah | PS3606.O7393 C76 2021 | Historical Fiction |
| Gansworth, Eric | Apple: (Skin to the Core) | PS3557.A5196 A66 2020 | Memoir |
| George, Bridget | It’s a Mitig! | PZ8.3.G292 It 2020 | Children’s Fiction |
| Gill, Marie-Andrée | Spawn | PQ3919.3.G53 A2 2020 | Poetry |
| GoldenEagle, Carol Rose | Bone Black | PR9199.4.G634 B66 2019 | Sci-Fi/ Fantasy |
| Good, Michelle | Five Little Indians | PR9199.4.G6645 F58 2020 | Fiction |
| Grace, Patricia | Dogside Story | PR9619.3.W67 C37 2009 | Fiction |
| Grover, Linda LeGarde | The Road Back to Sweetgrass | PS3607.R6777 R63 2014 | Fiction |
| Harjo, Joy | Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings | PS3558.A62423 C6 2015 | Poetry |
| Harjo, Joy | How We Became Human | PS3558.A62423 H69 2004 | Poetry |
| Harjo, Joy | When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry | PS591.I55 W47 2020 | Anthology |
| Hausman, Blake M. | Riding the Trail of Tears | PS3608.A8765 R53 2011 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Hilton, Carol Anne | Indigenomics: Taking a Seat At the Economic Table | E98.B87 H55 2021 | Nonfiction |
| Hobson, Brandon | Where the Dead Sit Talking | PS3608.O248 W48 2018 | Young Adult Fiction |
| Howe, LeAnne | Choctalking On Other Realities | PS3608.O95 C46 2013 | Biography |
| Howe, LeAnne | Savage Conversations | PS3608.O95 S28 2019 | Historical Fiction |
| Howe, LeAnne | Shell Shaker | PS3608.O95 S48 2001 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Hulme, Keri | The Bone People | PR9639.3.H75 B6 1986 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Ittusardjuat, Serapio | How I Survived: Four Nights On the Ice | G606 .I8813 2020 | Graphic Novel |
| Johnson, Harold | Peace and Good Order: The Case of Indigenous Justice in Canada | KE7709 .J64 2019 | Biography |
| Jones, Stephen Graham | Ledfeather | PS3560.O5395 L43 2008 | Historical Fiction |
| Jones, Stephen Graham | The Only Good Indians | PS3560.O5395 O55 2020 | Horror |
| Jonnie, Brianna | If I Go Missing | PN6733.J66 I35 2019 | Graphic Novel |
| Kahakauwila, Kristiana | This is Paradise | PS3611.A3455 T48 2013 | Fiction |
| Kimmerer, Robin Wall | Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants | E98.P5 K56 2013 | Autobiography |
| King, Thomas | 77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin | PR9199.3.K4422 A16 2019 | Poetry |
| King, Thomas | The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America | E77 .K566 | History |
| Knott, Helen | In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience | E78.B9 K56 2020 | Memoir |
| Kwaymullina, Ambelin | The Things She’s Seen | PR9619.4.K929 T454 2021 | Sci-Fi/ Fantasy |
| Lavell-Harvard, Memee | Forever Loved: Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada | HV6250.4.W65 F674 2016 | Nonfiction |
| Lindstrom, Carole | We Are Water Protectors | PZ7.L6613 We 2020 | Children’s Fiction |
| Little Badger, Darcie | Elatsoe | PZ7.1.L57812 El 2020 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Long Soldier, Layli | Whereas | PS3612.O5248 A6 2017 | Poetry |
| Lundy, Randy | Field Notes for the Self | PR9199.3.L864 F54 2020 | Poetry |
| Mailhot, Terese Marie | Heart Berries | RC552.P67 M3555 2018 | Autobiography |
| Mankiller, Wilma | Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women | Online Book Access | Biography |
| Maracle, Lee | Hope Matters | PR9199.3.M3497 H67 2019 | Poetry |
| McBride, Karen | Crow Winter | PR9199.4.M3945 C76 2019 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| McCue, Duncan | The Shoe Boy: A Trapline Memoir | E99.C88 M34 2020 | Memoir |
| McLeod, Darrel J. | Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age | E99.C88 M34 2019 | Autobiography |
| Momaday, N. Scott | Earth Keeper | PS3563.O47 E278 2020 | Poetry |
| Momaday, N. Scott | House Made of Dawn | PS3563.O47 H6 2018 | Historical Fiction |
| Naponse, Darlene | Before the Usual Time: A Collection of Indigenous Stories and Poems | PR9194.5.I5 B44 2020 | Anthology |
| Noodin, Margaret | What the Chickadee Knows | PS3614.O63 W46 2020 | Poetry |
| Orange, Tommy | There, There | PS3615.R32 T48 2018 | Fiction |
| Ortiz, Simon J. | Woven Stone | PS3565.R77 W6 1992 | Poetry |
| Pennock, Tyler | Bones | PR9199.4.P4635 B66 2020 | Poetry |
| Pico, Tommy | Feed | PS3616.I288 F44 2019 | Poetry |
| Rice, Waubgeshig | Moon of the Crusted Snow: A Novel | PR9199.4.R487 M66 2018 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Robertson, David | Breakdown | PN6733.R63 B74 2020 | Graphic Novel |
| Robertson, David | Black Water: Family, Legacy, and Blood Memory | PR9199.4.R582 Z46 2020 | Autobiography |
| Robertson, David | The Barren Grounds | PR9199.4.R582 B37 2021 | Children’s Fiction |
| Robinson, Eden | Monkey Beach | PR9199.3.R5334 M6 2000 | Sci-Fi/ Fantasy |
| Ruffo, Armand Garnet | Treaty # | PR9199.3.R77 T74 2019 | Poetry |
| Rytkheu, Yuri | A Dream in Polar Fog | PG3476.R965 S613 2005 | Fiction |
| Rytkheu, Yuri | The Chukchi Bible | PG3476.R965 P6713 2011 | Fiction |
| Rytkheu, Yuri | When the Whales Leave | PG3476.R965 K613 2019 | Fiction |
| Scott, Kim | That Deadman Dance | PR9619.3.S373 T43 2012 | Historical Fiction |
| Seesequasis, Paul | Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun | E78.C2 S384 2019 | Biography |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Ceremony | PS3569.I44 C4 | Fiction |
| Skeets, Jake | Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers | PS3619.K46 A6 2019 | Poetry |
| Smith, Cynthia Leitich | Hearts Unbroken | PS3568.M57 H43 2018 | Young Adult Fiction |
| Spillett-Sumner, Tasha | Surviving the City | PN6733.S65 S87 v.1 2018 | Graphic Novel |
| Spillett-Sumner, Tasha | Surviving the City Vol.2, From the Roots Up | PN6733.S65 S87 v.2 2020 | Graphic Novel |
| Staples, Dennis E. | This Town Sleeps | PS3619.T3675 T55 2020 | Fiction |
| Tagaq, Tanya | Split Tooth | PR9199.4.T343 S655 2018 | Fiction |
| Talaga, Tanya | Seven Fallen Feathers | E78.O5 T35 2017 | Biography |
| Taylor, Drew | Chasing Painted Horses | PR9199.3.T35 C37 2019 | Fiction |
| Thistle, Jesse | From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way | E99.M47 T55 2019 | Autobiography |
| Treuer, David | The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present | E77 .T797 2019 | History |
| Twist, Arielle | Disintegrate/ Dissociate | PR9199.4.T94 D57 2019 | Poetry |
| Van Camp, Richard | Moccasin Square Gardens | PS8593 .A5376 M63 2019 | Fiction |
| Vermette, Katherena | A Girl Called Echo | PN6733.V47 P46 v.1 2017 | Graphic Novel |
| Vizenor, Gerald Robert | Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles | PS3572.I9 D37 1990 | Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Wagamese, Richard | A Quality of Light | PR9199.3.W316 Q35 1997 | Fiction |
| Wagamese, Richard | For Joshua: An Ojibwe Father Teaches His Son | PR9199.3.W316 Z466 2020 | Autobiography |
| Wagamese, Richard | Indian Horse | PR9199.3.W316 I63 2012 | Fiction |
| Walbourne-Gough, Douglas | Crow Gulch | PR9199.4.W3243 C76 2019 | Poetry |
| Washuta, Elissa | My Body is a Book of Rules | CT275.W316 A3 2014 | Memoir |
| Washuta, Elissa | White Magic: Essays | BF1598.W37 W5 2021 | Memoir |
| Weiden, David, Heska Wanbli | Winter Counts | PS3623.E4246 W56 2020 | Sci-Fi/ Fantasy |
| Welch, James | Winter in the Blood | PS3573.E44 W5 2008 | Historical Fiction |
| Whitehead, Joshua | Full-Metal Indigiqueer: Poems | PR9199.4.W4745 F8 2017 | Poetry |
| Whitehead, Joshua | Jonny Appleseed | PR9199.4.W4745 J64 2018 | Fiction |
| Whitehead, Joshua | Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction | PN6120.92.G39 L68 2020 | Anthology |
| Wright, Alexis | Carpentaria | PR9619.3.W67 C37 2009 | Fiction |
| Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll | Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga | folio PN6733.Y34 C37 2019 | Graphic Novel |