6 books I highly recommend:
- Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable
- Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid
- Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors by Denise K. Lajimodiere
- Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens Please note: while this book is not written by or about indigenous people, the author mentions one inspiration for this novel was the Highway of Tears in Northern British Columbia, where women have been murdered and gone missing since the 1970’s. Many of these cases remain unsolved and it is a harsh reality that most involve Indigenous women – who experience a disproportionately higher rate of violence and homicide than the average woman in Canada. To learn more about the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and the Highway of Tears please visit https://highwayoftears.org/ and https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/.
My favorite?
More Indigenous reads:
Horror and thriller novels by Indigenous writers
Books by Indigenous writers on residential schools
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