Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:50 — 38.3MB) | Embed
There’s something for everybody on the summer reading lists by our expert panel of Native super-readers. From supernatural slashers to memoirs to poetry, there is an abundance of Native literature available right now to put in your backpack or beach bag. From the usual big names and a few hidden treasures, we’ll have ideas for you to stock up on the printed word.
GUESTS
Samantha Courchane (Chippewa Cree Tribe), library assistant and archive assistant at Stone Child College Library
Desiderya J. Costello (Diné), library paraprofessional at the San Pedro Public Library in Albuquerque
Amber McCrary (Diné), writer and poet
Reading lists from guests:
Desiderya suggests:
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology 2023 edited by Shane Hawk and Throdore Van Alst Jr.
Blood Sisters 2023 by Vanessa Lillie
Winter Counts 2020 by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Night of the Living Rez 2022 by Morgan Talty (I am really excited for his new book to come out, Fire Exit out on 6/4/24)
Anoka 2020 by Shane Hawk
Amber suggests:
The Storyteller 2023 by Brandon Hobson
Firekeeper’s Daughter 2021 by Angeline Boulley
mother by m.s. RedCherries out 7/16/24
Removal Acts 2023 by Erin Marie Lynch
The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava out 8/6/24
Also mentioned Good Medicine 2021 by Tenille Campbell
Samantha suggests:
Rock Your Mocs 2023 by Laurel Goodluck
Who Am I? 2023 by Julie Buchholtz
Why We Dance 2024 by Deidre Havrelock
Powwow Day 2022 by Traci Sorell
Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior 2023 by Carole Lindstrom
My Powerful Hair 2023 by Carole Lindstrom
Andi suggests:
Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook 2023 by Thomas Pecore Weso
Whiskey Tender 2024 by Deborah Jackson Taffa
Wandering Stars 2024 by Tommy Orange
Horns 2024 by Tiffany Midge
Moon of the Turning Leaves 2024 and Moon of the Crusted Snow 2018 by Waubgeshig Rice
Medicine Wheel for the Planet: a Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing by Dr. Jennifer Grenz out in the US 5/28/24
I was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones out 7/16/24
Break 1 Music: In the Balance (song) Sharon Burch (artist) Touch the Sweet Earth (album)
Break 2 Music: Fancy Dance (Song) Yellow Hammer (artist) Yellow Hammer (album)
I enjoyed listening to your program on my way back to Dixon from Española. My mother was a professor of reading education in the 70s, 80s and 90s and was quite involved with the California and International Reading Associations. So I heard a lot about how to teach reading. As a middle and high school history/geography teacher I would employ a variety of techniques to improve reading and writing. One of my mother’s students was a Creek/Choctaw teacher in South Central Los Angeles who started a reading program there. He and my mother eventually wed and I often heard about new and improved methods for teaching reading. But I really did not hear much about Native literature. I just forwarded the program to our librarians at the Embudo Valley Library. Thank you for sharing!