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Happy Native American Heritage Month 2023!

Happy Native American Heritage Month 2023! To celebrate, we’re featuring books starring queer Native American and First Nations characters, by Native American and/or First Nations authors, as well as indigqueer poetry. While the usual affiliate links are included, I encourage you to check out and purchase from Birchbark Books, whose links are included as well.

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Rabbit Chase by Elizabeth LaPensée and K.C. Oster (Anishinaabe)

59342979. sx318 Anishinaabe culture and storytelling meet Alice in Wonderland in this coming-of-age graphic novel that explores Indigenous and gender issues through a fresh yet familiar looking glass.

Aimée, a non-binary Anishinaabe middle-schooler, is on a class trip to offer gifts to Paayehnsag, the water spirits known to protect the land. While stories are told about the water spirits and the threat of the land being taken over for development, Aimée zones out, distracting themselves from the bullying and isolation they’ve experienced since expressing their non-binary identity. When Aimée accidentally wanders off, they are transported to an alternate dimension populated by traditional Anishinaabe figures in a story inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

To gain the way back home, Aimée is called on to help Trickster by hunting down dark water spirits with guidance from Paayehnsag. On their journey, Aimée faces off with the land-grabbing Queen and her robotic guards and fights the dark water spirits against increasingly stacked odds. Illustrated by KC Oster with a modern take on their own Ojibwe style and cultural representation, Rabbit Chase is a story of self-discovery, community, and finding one’s place in the world.

Buy it: Bookshop | Amazon | Birchbark Books

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Fave Five: Indigenous Fiction Audiobooks

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Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to the Earth by Darcie Little Badger, narrated by Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Kinsale Hueston (YA)

The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson, narrated by Julie Lumsden (YA)

A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt, narrated by Jesse Nobess

This Town Sleeps by Dennis Staples, narrated by Kaipo Schwab

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, narrated by Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab & Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Bonus: Nature Poem by Tommy Pico is a book-length poem narrated by the author

Fave Five: Queer Indigenous YA

Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones

Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

Love After the End ed. by Joshua Whitehead (anthology)

The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough (publishing in the US as Ready When You Are on February 1, 2022)

Songs that Sound Like Blood by Jared Thomas

Bonus: Coming in 2024, Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon