It’s Indigenous Peoples' Day! We urge all readers — today and all year — to seek out and share books respectfully and accurately representing diverse Indigenous peoples and cultures throughout North America. See the American Indian Library Association's American Indian Youth Literature Award, announced every other year (including this year) during the American Library Association's Youth Media Awards. For an extensive resource by a cultural insider and a children’s literature scholar, visit Dr. Debbie Reese’s website American Indians in Children’s Literature (and in particular the “Best Books of the Year” lists). Also pick up a copy of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese; and 2021's young readers' edition of Anton Treuer's Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask.

You can find many reviews, interviews, and links in our previous years' Indigenous People's Day posts. In addition, relevant Horn Book articles from this past year include:

• The Writers' Page: The Heroes Inside Us: Fighting for Truth, Justice, and the Right to Share Our Stories by Kekla Magoon and Cynthia Leitich Smith [from the September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine; see also our review of their book, Mission One: The Vice Principal Problem from March/April 2024]
• Blowing the Horn: Toot and Shout by Carole Lindstrom [from the May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Our Centennial]
• Publishers' Preview: Spring 2024: Five Questions for K. A. Cobell [from the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine; see also our review of the book, Looking for Smoke from May/June 2024]
• Tall Tales by Noah Van Sciver and Marlena Myles [from the March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine; see also our review of their book, Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend from Nov/Dec 2023]
• Remember: Joy Harjo's 2023 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech [from the January/February 2024 Horn Book Magazine]
• Remember: Michaela Goade's 2023 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech [from the January/February 2024 Horn Book Magazine]
• Warrior Girl Unearthed: Angeline Boulley's 2023 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Award Speech [from the January/February 2024 Horn Book Magazine]
• Indigenous stories [from November 2023 Notes from the Horn Book]
• Publishers' Preview: Fall 2023: Five Questions for Jen Ferguson [from the September/October 2023 Horn Book Magazine; see also our starred review of the book, Those Pink Mountain Nights from Sep/Oct 2023]
• Publishers' Preview: Fall 2023: Five Questions for Carole Lindstrom and Bridget George [from the September/October 2023 Horn Book Magazine; see also our review of the book in the Notes section mentioned above]

Other recommended books recently reviewed by the Horn Book:

Picture Books

• Why We Dance: A Story of Hope and Healing by Deidre Havrelock; illus. by Aly McKnight [Jan/Feb 2024]
• Let's Go! by Julie Flett [starred review; May/June 2024]
• A Family Tree by Staci Lola Drouillard; illus. by Kate Gardiner [Jul/Aug 2024]

Fiction

• Maggie Lou, Firefox by Arnolda Dufour Bowes; illus. by Karlene Harvey [Nov/Dec 2023]
• Eagle Drums by Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson [Nov/Dec 2023]
• Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger; illus. by Rovina Cai [May/June 2024]
• Where Wolves Don't Die by Anton Treuer [Jul/Aug 2024]
• Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan [Sep/Oct 2024]

Folklore

• The Seventh Direction: A Legend of Creation by Kevin Locke; illus. by Kristy Cameron [May/June 2024]

Nonfiction

• Daughter of the Light-Footed People: The Story of Indigenous Marathon Champion Lorena Ramírez by Belen Medina; illus. by Natalia Rojas Castro [starred review; Sep/Oct 2024]
• Kindred Spirits: Shilombish Ittibachvffa by Leslie Stall Widener; illus. by Johnson Yazzie [Sep/Oct 2024]