Native America Calling: Your Native Bookshelf in 2024

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Native Bookshelf 2024

Stacie Shannon Denetsosie’s life on the Navajo Nation is the inspiration for many of her imaginative stories in the collection, The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories, published this year.

Ojibwe writer Marcie Rendon’s illustrated children’s book, Stitches of Tradition (Gashkigwaaso Tradition), measures time and culture through the ribbon skirts a grandmother makes through the years.

And Danica Nava’s romance novel, The Truth According to Ember, has readers rooting for its Chickasaw protagonist to get the guy.

Those are among the books that our expert readers will review in our look back on notable works by Indigenous authors.

The Missing Morningstar: And Other Stories

by Stacie Shannon Denetsosie (Torrey House Press 2024)

Stitches of Tradition (Gashkigwaaso Tradition) by Marcie Rendon, Illustrated by Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley (HarperCollins 2024

The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava

Guests on Native America Calling

Andrea L. Rogers (Cherokee), author, undergraduate professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and a PhD student at the University of Arkansas

Calvin Crosby (Cherokee), owner of King’s English Bookshop and executive director of Brain Food Books, both located in Utah