NACA Inspired Schools Network Reading List

 

The NACA Inspired Schools Network (NISN) recruited ten expert teacher-designers to create a 6th through 12th grade Native Literature curriculum based on years of original curriculum design that melds fiction and nonfiction texts 1) by and about Indigenous peoples, 2) grounded in anti-bias/anti-racist and equity terminology and learning, 3) and guided by the Common Core State Standards. Each grade-level curriculum is aligned to the others under the conceptual auspice of Indigenous Identity & Joy, Empowerment, Equity, & Justice, and Analysis, Interpretation, & Synthesis and all yearlong and unit curriculum were designed using the research-based framework, Understanding by Design (UbD).  If you or your school/district are interested in adopting or adapting this open-sourced, free curriculum to our 6th-12th Grade Native Literature Program please contact Josh Krause: joshua@nacainspiredschoolsnetwork.org.

 

Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices By Lisa Charleyboy (Editor), Mary Beth Leatherdale (Editor) Cover Image
By Lisa Charleyboy (Editor), Mary Beth Leatherdale (Editor)
$12.95
ISBN: 9781554516865
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Published: Annick Press - March 22nd, 2016

Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers By Elissa Washuta (Editor), Theresa Warburton (Editor) Cover Image
By Elissa Washuta (Editor), Theresa Warburton (Editor)
$29.95
ISBN: 9780295745756
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Published: University of Washington Press - June 28th, 2019

Nevertheless, We Persisted: 48 Voices of Defiance, Strength, and Courage By Amy Klobuchar (Foreword by), In This Together Media (Editor) Cover Image
By Amy Klobuchar (Foreword by), In This Together Media (Editor)
$12.99
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ISBN: 9781524771997
Published: Ember - October 15th, 2019

Look: Poems By Solmaz Sharif Cover Image
$16.00
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ISBN: 9781555977443
Published: Graywolf Press - July 5th, 2016

Unaccompanied By Javier Zamora Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781556595110
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - September 5th, 2017

The Marrow Thieves By Cherie Dimaline Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781770864863
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Published: Dcb Young Readers - September 1st, 2017

The Birchbark House By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9781432865924
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Published: Thorndike Press Large Print - May 22nd, 2019

Toronto at Dreamer's Rock and Education Is Our Rig: Two One-Act Plays By Drew Hayden Taylor Cover Image
$14.95
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ISBN: 9781897252703
Published: Fitzhenry & Whiteside - October 25th, 2011

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning History for Young People #2) By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Jean Mendoza (Adapted by), Debbie Reese (Adapted by) Cover Image
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Jean Mendoza (Adapted by), Debbie Reese (Adapted by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9780807049396
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Published: Beacon Press - July 23rd, 2019

Indian No More By Charlene Willing McManis, Traci Sorell Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781620148396
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Published: Tu Books - September 24th, 2019

Hearts Unbroken By Cynthia Leitich Smith Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9781536213133
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Published: Candlewick - April 14th, 2020

Fire Song By Adam Garnet Jones Cover Image
$9.95
ISBN: 9781554519774
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Published: Annick Press - March 13th, 2018

The Yield: A Novel By Tara June Winch Cover Image
$16.99
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ISBN: 9780063003477
Published: HarperVia - June 15th, 2021

Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture By Bruce Pascoe Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781947534087
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Published: Scribe Us - May 15th, 2018

There There By Tommy Orange Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525436140
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Published: Vintage - May 7th, 2019

Where the Dead Sit Talking By Brandon Hobson Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781641290173
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Published: Soho Press - June 4th, 2019

Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir (Sun Tracks  #57) By Ernestine Hayes Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9780816525379
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Published: University of Arizona Press - September 21st, 2006

The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir By Ernestine Hayes Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9780295745725
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Published: University of Washington Press - January 11th, 2019

So Long, Bob: A Pennsylvania Farm Boy's Letters Home from the War 1941-1945 By Brian D. Berkey Cover Image
$25.95
ISBN: 9781644683132
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Published: Covenant Books - June 30th, 2020

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501126079
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Published: Scribner - May 8th, 2018

Afterlife By Julia Alvarez Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781643751368
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Published: Algonquin Books - April 6th, 2021

Book of the Little Axe By Lauren Francis-Sharma Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802158543
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Published: Grove Press - May 18th, 2021

The Poet X By Elizabeth Acevedo Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780062662811
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Published: Quill Tree Books - April 7th, 2020

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance By Zora Neale Hurston Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062915801
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Published: Amistad - January 5th, 2021

Vessel: Poems By Parneshia Jones Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781571314673
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Published: Milkweed Editions - April 7th, 2015

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning By Cathy Park Hong Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781984820389
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Published: One World - March 2nd, 2021

The Night Watchman: Pulitzer Prize Winning Fiction By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780062671196
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Published: Harper Perennial - March 23rd, 2021

An American Sunrise: Poems By Joy Harjo Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393358483
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 18th, 2020

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir By Sherman Alexie Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316270748
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Published: Back Bay Books - November 12th, 2019

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America By Thomas King Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781517904463
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Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press - January 2nd, 2018

A Radiant Curve: Poems and Stories (Sun Tracks  #64) By Luci Tapahonso Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780816527090
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Published: University of Arizona Press - October 17th, 2008

Drown By Junot Díaz Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781573226066
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Published: Riverhead Books - July 1st, 1997

The Testaments: A Novel By Margaret Atwood Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525562627
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Published: Anchor - September 1st, 2020

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Vintage International) By Maxine Hong Kingston Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679721888
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Published: Vintage - April 23rd, 1989

The Book Thief By Markus Zusak Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780375842207
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers - September 11th, 2007

House of Purple Cedar By Tim Tingle Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9781935955245
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Published: Cinco Puntos Press - February 18th, 2014

The Lesser Blessed By Richard Van Camp Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781771621137
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Published: Douglas & McIntyre - October 8th, 2016

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316453691
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020

If I Ever Get Out of Here By Eric Gansworth Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9780545417310
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Published: Arthur A. Levine Books - April 28th, 2015