10 must-read memoir books like Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

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Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.14

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of…

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1. Skeleton Tree

By: Kim Ventrella

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

"When Stanley Stanwright finds a bone poking out of the earth in his back garden, he is determined … read more

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2. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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3. Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more

Similar categories in Terese Marie Mailhot's Heart Berries book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • biography
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Pain expanded my heart."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"You are such a home to me."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

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4. A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more

Similar categories in Michelle Porter's A Grandmother Begins the Story book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • audiobook
  • indigenous
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

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5. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • audiobook
  • native american
  • indigenous
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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6. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Jackson Taffa's Whiskey Tender: A Memoir book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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7. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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8. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.14

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

By: Lydia Millet

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's We Loved It All: A Memory of Life book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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10. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

By: Leah Myers

3.81

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A vibrant new voice blends Native folklore… read more

Similar categories in Leah Myers's Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I wonder if I will ever feel Native enough."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"You don't have the right to define my identity."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"She gave up herself and her identity for security."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

"My home is in Georgia, but my soul is at home here."

-Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

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12. Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)

By: Gregory D. Smithers

4.12

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, … read more

Similar categories in Gregory D. Smithers's Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action) book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
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13. The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade

By: Hannah Durkin

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Durkin's The Survivors of the Clotilda: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Rangikura

By: Tayi Tibble

4.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

They saw things in me I wanted to see in myself that’s why I let them see me that’s why I let th… read more

Similar categories in Tayi Tibble's Rangikura book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
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15. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

Similar categories in Patty Krawec's Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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16. Ma and Me

By: Putsata Reang

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The memoir of a refugee caught between her identity as a gay woman and the love and life debt she o… read more

Similar categories in Putsata Reang's Ma and Me book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Something About the Sky

By: Rachel Carson

4.21

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Cut-paper wizard Nikki McClure is a brilliant steward for the words of a pioneering environmentalis… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Carson's Something About the Sky book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • nonfiction
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18. Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

By: Andrea Warner

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Folk hero. Rock icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things, and Greystone is pr… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Warner's Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • indigenous
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The pecking order comes from the barnyard"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

"Angry is a way for power holders To dismiss and deligitmize activism and protest"

-Andrea Warner, Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography

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19. The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room

By: Amy Low

4.34

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lessons and advice on navigating uncertainty while battling stage four cancer after divorce in midl… read more

Similar categories in Amy Low's The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Where the Language Lives: Vi Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed by Janet Yoder

20. Where the Language Lives: Vi Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed

By: Janet Yoder

4.32

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

The life and work of Upper Skagit tribal elder Vi Hilbert, who, more than anyone, revitalized her n… read more

Similar categories in Janet Yoder's Where the Language Lives: Vi Hilbert and the Gift of Lushootseed book and Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

  • nonfiction
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21. Patriarchy Blues

By: Rena Priest

4.19

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

"Rena Priest addresses those who crave 'the meat of beasts with beets and leeks.' And while she ins… read more

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Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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3.84

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Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

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4.37

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Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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Amy Tan

4.14

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