November is Native American Heritage Month, a celebration of the many varied Native cultures. Check out the official website for more information and lots of resources.

Here are some additional articles and links from The Horn Book's archives and beyond.

Recent Horn Book resources by and about Native writers and their work

• 2023 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Virtual Celebration Recording featuring Angeline Boulley's Fiction and Poetry Award acceptance speech for Warrior Girl Unearthed [starred review; May/June 2023]
• 2023 Boston Globe-Horn Book Selfies featuring Joy Harjo and Michaela Goade's video acceptances for Picture Book Honor Remember [starred review; Mar/Apr 2023]
• Michaela Goade Talks with Roger about Remember by Joy Harjo
• Five questions for Anthony Perry and Alexis Bunten about Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story [Nov/Dec 2022]
• Publishers' Previews: Jen Ferguson; Carole Lindstrom and Bridget George; Emily Bowen Cohen; Angeline Boulley

Resources on representation of Native Americans in children's books

• Seeing Ourselves: Correcting the Landscape by Andrea L. Rogers (May/June 2023 Horn Book Magazine)
• Seeing Ourselves: Cherokee DNA Tree of Life by Jeff Edwards (May/June 2023 Horn Book Magazine)
• Seeing Ourselves: Write to Preserve, Edit to Protect by Angeline Boulley (May/June 2023 Horn Book Magazine)
• Change happens when enough people demand it by Debbie Reese (Family Reading)
• Decolonizing Nostalgia: When Historical Fiction Betrays Readers of Color by Sarah Hannah Gómez (September/October 2016 Horn Book Magazine)
• Arrow to the Sun and Critical Controversies by Kathleen Horning (September/October 2013 Horn Book Magazine)
• Field Notes: 'Mom, Look! It’s George, and He’s a TV Indian!' by Debbie Reese (September/October 1998 Horn Book Magazine)

A selection of Horn Book–recommended books

• Books for Indigenous Peoples' Day 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017
• Indigenous stories
• Middle-grade-and-up for Native American Heritage Month
• Book Bundles: American Indians [Guide/Reviews Database]
• Native American Heritage Month 2022, 2021, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015

From around the web

• Native American Heritage Month official website
• 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Awards

• American Indian Library Association

• American Indians in Children's Literature blog

• American Indians in Children's Literature's Best Books of the Year lists
• Cynthia Leitich Smith's Teacher and Librarian Resources for Native American Children’s and Young Adult Books
• "Resources and Kid Lit About American Indians" by Debbie Reese at SLJ
• Oyate

• First Nations Development Institute: Native American Children's Literature Recommended Reading List