Children's Stories & Young Adult

It's back! Good feather work skills are a must for producing top quality craftwork, and this comprehensive new book covers every facet in great detail. Beginning with a gallery of full-color photos of hundreds of real feathers, the author takes you...

This unique baby book sings with Native cultural detail, while striking a universal chord in its celebration of the blossoming of love that comes with expecting and welcoming a new baby--with art by New York Times bestselling illustrator and...

Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption―a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom...

2023 Reprint! Some 600 plants of the Black Hills and Bear Lodge Mountains of western South Dakota and neighboring Wyoming - plants that may be showy or shy, ecologically meaningful, troublesome, or significant because of their uses as foods and...

2023 Reprint! In the grasslands of South Dakota and the northern Great Plains are many hidden treasures.  Anywhere in the state - in the east where the stands of grass are elegantly tall and thick, in the central Missouri River section, and in the...

What stories are girls told of womanhood? Are they of strength, grace, and creativity? Not long ago, they heard whispered tales of impending curses. Physical changes were clinically defined in textbooks, but not spoken of openly. Embarrassment was...

This retelling of an ancient Native tale relates the story of Star Boy, son of Morning Star and an earthly bride. It is considered a reverent, eye-catching rendition of an important Indian story. As a symbol of the Sun's disapproval for his mother's...

Windy Girl is blessed with a vivid imagination. From Uncle she gathers stories of long-ago traditions, about dances and sharing and gratitude. Windy can tell such stories herself–about her dog, Itchy Boy, and the way he dances to request a treat...

The determined story of an Ojibwe grandmother (nokomis), Josephine Mandamin, and her great love for nibi (water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect nibi for future generations and for all life on the planet. The walks are full of...

A sacred tale of the Blackfoot, this book tells the tale of six orphaned brothers, neglected by their people and taunted and scorned by other children. The neglected boys are befriended only by the camp dogs. Growing tired of the unkindness around them,...

The Native American story of the Buffalo Woman comes from the tribes who followed the buffalo herds on the Great Plains. The buffalo was the source of life for the people, giving them food, hides for robes and tipi covers.The lives of both the buffalo...

Lost in the hills with night approaching, Tiblo and his little sister Tanksi, take shelter in a cave, a wolf watches over them. Seemingly in a dream, a wolf keeps them warm during the cold night and then the next morning leads them back home. For his...

When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear’s autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging an veracious we have ever had.” It remains a landmark in Indian...

"Nooko's spirit is there in the stars," says Niigaanii to his younger brother, Bineshiinh, as they sprawl in a meadow, gazing skyward. "Uncle said when Nooko':s spirit left this world it went there." Nooko was their grandmother, and they...

Back in Stock!This constellation guidebook focusing on D(L)akota Star Knowledge. Greek constellations and astronomical objects of interest are included along with the D(L)akota constellations organized by the four seasons and north circumpolar stars...

In this Own Voices Native American picture book story, a modern Wabanaki girl is excited to accompany her grandmother for the first time to harvest sweetgrass for basket making. Musquon must overcome her impatience while learning to distinguish...

When We Are Kind celebrates simple acts of everyday kindness and encourages children to explore how they feel when they initiate and receive acts of kindness in their lives. Celebrated author Monique Gray Smith has written many books on the topics...

Held by the Land invites us to explore our natural surroundings and renew our connection to the land.  With lyrical, meditative prose, ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph advocates for a way of living that develops and builds relationships wit the plant life...

The Wolf’s Trail tells of Zhi-shay’, an elder wolf, and a litter of young wolves living somewhere on the side of a hill overlooking the river that flows through Nagahchiwanong in northern Minnesota. Zhi-shay’, who knows the whole story...

When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen year’s absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book, first published in 1933.  In addition to...

A stunning picture book biography of a 19th century Hidatsa woman, from award-winning author and illustrator S. D. Nelson Buffalo Bird Girl (ca. 1839-1932) was a member of the Hidatsa, a Native American community that lived in permanent...

While picking berries with her mother, a little girl wanders too far into the woods. When she realizes she is lost, she begins to panic. A large grey wolf makes a sudden appearance between some distant trees. Using his sense of smell, he determines where...

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?”Featuring stories by:Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline •...

Little has been done to compile a complete, in-depth oral history of the Battle of the Little Bighorn from the descendants of the Native American and First Nations people who fought there on June 25th, 1876. Until now. With the help and guidance of...