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Check out all of 2022 Santa Fe Reads titles at your favorite Santa Fe Public Library branch. Some titles are also available in e-book and audiobook formats.
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There There follows twelve characters from Native communities—all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize—as they travel to the Big Oakland Powwow.
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, a chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty, spirituality, communion, sacrifice, and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic, There There is at once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, utterly contemporary and unforgettable. Tommy Orange is the author of The New York Times bestselling novel There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. There There was one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, and won the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the Pen/Hemmingway Award. There There was also longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California. SAVE THE DATE!
An Evening with Tommy Orange
November 5, 2022 6:30 PM Santa Fe Indian School | Pueblo Pavilion 1501 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505 Event registration is now open! Register to attend! Free and open to the public. Seating limited. This event will be live streamed through the Santa Fe New Mexican. |
Healer of the Water Monster captures an epic hero's journey of 11-year-old Nathan when he visits his grandma, Nali, at her mobile home on the Navajo reservation. With no electricity or cell service, Nathan expected a pretty uneventful summer. Wandering into the desert, he encounters Pond, an ailing water monster. With the help of a communication stone, he enters a world of Navajo cosmology to help save Pond.
Author and filmmaker Brian Young is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. Young earned his BA in Film Studies at Yale University and his MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia University. His powerful debut novel, Healer of the Water Monster, won the 2022 American Indian Youth Literature Award for Best Middle Grade Book. Brian will be discussing his book in a live streaming event through Santa Fe New Mexican. SAVE THE DATE!
A Virtual Talk with Brian Young October 14, 2022 10 AM This event will be live streamed through the Santa Fe New Mexican. |
Firekeeper's Daughter is a thriller told through the eyes of 18-year-old Daunis—a biracial, unenrolled member of the Ojibwe tribe. With crystal meth abuse on the rise in her community, Daunis uses her knowledge of science and native medicine to go undercover as a confidential informant with the FBI. What she uncovers makes her question everything she's ever known.
Angeline Boulley's authentic depictions of the complexities of native communities—and the traumas and strengths of Native women, specifically—make this book a standout for YA readers. Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault St. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Firekeeper's Daughter, her debut novel, was an instant #1 New York Times Bestseller. |
The Marrow Thieves—Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The Indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. For now, survival means staying hidden—but what they don't know is that one of them holds the secret to defeating the marrow thieves.
Cherie Dimaline is a writer from the Feorgian Bay Métis Nation, a part of Nétis Nation of Ontario. She has written a variety of award-winning novels and other acclaimed stories and articles. She is most noted for her 2017 Science Fiction/Dystopian Fiction YA novel The Marrow Thieves, which explores the continued colonial exploitation of Indigenous people. |
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story—told in verse—is about a unifying cultural food: something universal across tribes, but also something that everyone can eat. “Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories…”
Kevin Maillard is an enrolled member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. He is the debut author of Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story, a picture book illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal, which won the Sibert Medal and the American Indian Youth Literature Award. |
We Are Water Protectors—was written in response to Indigenous-led environmental protests. It tells the story of a young Ojibwe girl and her people as they take on the “black snake” of an oil pipeline threatening their way of life, and rally to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption.
Carol Lindstrom is the author of The New York Times bestselliing and Caldecott Award-winning We Are Water Protectors. She is Anishinabe/Métis and is a proud member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe Indians. |