Stories & Poems

 

Stories

  • Wash, by Margaret Wrinkle

  • The Inheritance, by Christine Sleeter

  • Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

  • In Search of April Raintree, by Beatrice Mosionier

  • Kindred, by Octavia Butler

  • A Rain of Nightbirds, by Deena Metzger

  • Beloved, by Toni Morrison

  • The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich

  • Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women, by Sharon Blackie

  • Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko

  • Native Son, by Richard Wright

  • The Alchemist, by Paolo Coelho

  • The Maeve Chronicles, by Margaret Cunningham

  • Secret of Ron Mor Skerry, by Rosalie K. Fry

  • Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World, by Kathleen Ragan

  • Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures, and the Search for Heaven on Earth, by Annette McGivney

  • Decolonial Dames of America, by Morgan Curtis


Poems

  • Climbing Poetree, by Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman

  • WHEREAS, by Layli Long Soldier

  • From Sand Creek, by Simon Ortiz

  • Lifting Hearts off the Ground: Declaring Indigenous Rights in Poetry, by Joy de Vito and Lyla June Johnston

  • Salt, by Nayyirah Waheed

  • Nejma, by Nayyirah Waheed

  • New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich

  • Glimpses: A Poetic Memoir, by Leny Mendoza Strobel

  • V’ahavta, by Aurora Levins Morales

  • Please Call Me by My True Names, by Thich Nhat Hanh

  • The In Between, by Erin Caitlin Sweeney


Podcast

 
 
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Lyla June on Lifting Hearts off the Ground

 


Spoken Word

 

Climbing Poetree

Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman perform selections from their newly released record, at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference.

 
Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman perform selections from their newly released record. This speech was given at the 2016 National Bioneers Conference. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges.
 
"It is dawn. The sun is rising the sky and my grandmother and I are singing prayers to the horizon. This morning, she's teaching me the meaning of hozhó. Although there's no direct translation from Diné Bizaad, the Navajo language, into English, every living being knows what hozhó means.
 

Hozhó - Lyla June

Lyla June Johnston is of the Diné Nation. She was was trained in environmental sciences at Stanford University, and the ecological sciences of her Indigenous Elders.

Becoming Native to a Place

With Lyla June Johnston, Nikki Finney, and Ilarion Merculieff

 

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