Holly LaFrance has worked tirelessly finding published material relating to our Abenaki and other indigenous people. From time to time Holly will provide a review of the books she’s read from this list. Click here to see her latest review. Most of these books can be found at your local bookstore.

Dear Canada, These are my words by Ruby Slipperjack

Nadakinna our land by Joseph Bruchac

The Story of the Milky Way by Joseph Bruchac

Squanto’s Journey by Joseph Bruchac

Abenaki Indian Legends, Grammar and Place Names by Henry Masta

The Abenaki by Elaine Landau

Makoons  by Louise Erdrich

Black Elk Speaks by John Neihardt and Black Elk

Seven Eyes, Seven Legs by Gerald Rancourt Tsonakwa

Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Smith

Vermont Almanac by Various authors

Surviving Through the Days by Herbert Luthin

Think Indigenous by Doug Good Feather

Breeding Better Vermonters by Nancy L. Gallagher

Native American Testimony by Peter Nabokov

Abenaki Daring by Jean Barman

My Murder and Other Local News by David Schein

Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

Malian’s Song by Joseph Bruchac

The First Strawberries by Joseph Bruchac

The Legend of Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac

Aunt Sarah by Trudy Ann Parker

The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

Black Elk the Sacred Pipe by Joseph Epes Brown

Welcome the Caribou Man by Gerald Rancourt Tsonakwa

We are the Gardeners by Joanna Gaines

Rediscovering Heritage Seeds in Atlantic Canada by Rosemary Taylor

The Scalp Hunters by Alfred Kayworth

Ceremonial Stonework by Markham rStar

Vermont for the Vermonters by Mercedes de Guardiola

1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving by Catherine O’Neill Grace

Corn Husk Doll by Kerry Wood

Tokens: a play on the Plague by David Schein

Two Roads by Joseph Bruchac

Raccoon’s Last Race by Joseph Bruchac

The Earth Under Sky Bears Feet by Joseph Bruchac

Eagle Song by Joseph Bruchac

Darkness Under the Water by Beth Kanell

The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich

Sacred Sage, how it heals by Silver Wolf Walks Alone

Western Abenaki of Vermont 1600-1800 by Colin Calloway

Legends in Stone, Bone and Wood Gerald Rancourt Tsonakwa

Fry Bread by Kevin Noble Maillard

Betty The Betty Osborne Story by David Robertson

The Tree Book by The Smithsonian

Woven Through the Sweetgrass by Claudia Chicklas

1491 by Charles Mann

Hawk Rising by Maria Gianferrari

The Voice of the Dawn by Fred Wiseman

At the End of the Ridge Road by Joseph Bruchac

Turtle’s Race with Beaver by Joseph Bruchac

Thirteen Moons on Turtles Back by Joseph Bruchac

The Winter People by Joseph Bruchac

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Porcupine Year by Louise Erdrich

The Legends of Mollyockett by Charles Everett Johnson

The Abenaki by Colin Calloway

No Spiritual Surrender by Ryan Vizzions

The First Blade of Sweetgrass by Suzanne Greenlaw

Sugar Falls by David Robertson

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

1493 by Charles Mann

Indian Babies How to Keep Them Well by Dept of the Interior

Reclaiming the Ancestors by Fred Wiseman

Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac

How Chipmunk Got His Stripes by Joseph Bruchac

Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec

Buffalo Song by Joseph Bruchac

New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues by Joseph Laurent

Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Chickadee by Louise Erdrich

Mobas and the Magic Flute by Jesse Bowman Bruchac

Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell

Rethinking Columbus by Bill Bigelow

We are the Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom

Western Abenaki Dictionary by Gordon Day

Trickster by Matt Dembicki

Our Hidden Landscapes by Lucianne Lavin

Building Resiliency by Dr Ruth Moore

Singing Bird by Karen Johnson

Seven Sisters by Fred Wiseman