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

• 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 (September/October 2024 Horn Book Magazine)
• Blowing the Horn: Toot and Shout by Carole Lindstrom (May/June 2024 Horn Book Magazine: Special Issue: Our Centennial)
• Publishers' Preview: Spring 2024: Five Questions for K. A. Cobell (March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine)
• Tall Tales by Noah Van Sciver and Marlena Myles (March/April 2024 Horn Book Magazine)
• Remember: Joy Harjo's 2023 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech (January/February 2024 Horn Book Magazine)
• Remember: Michaela Goade's 2023 BGHB Picture Book Honor Speech (January/February 2024 Horn Book Magazine)
• Warrior Girl Unearthed: Angeline Boulley's 2023 BGHB Fiction and Poetry Award Speech (January/February 2024 Horn Book Magazine)

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

• Book Bundles: Native Heritage by Summer Edward (Guide/Reviews Database)
• Horn Book Herald: October 2024
• Indigenous stories (November 2023 Notes from the Horn Book)
• Middle-grade-and-up for Native American Heritage Month (November 2021 Notes from the Horn Book)
• Book Bundles: American Indians by Anita L. Burkam (Guide/Reviews Database)
• Indigenous Peoples' Day
• Native American Heritage Month

From around the web

• Native American Heritage Month official website
• 2024 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