9 Best indigenous books like Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land by N. Scott Momaday

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Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

By: N. Scott Momaday

4.23

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illu…

If you liked the indigenous plot in Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land by N. Scott Momaday , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Nature Poem

By: Tommy Pico

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Nature Poemfollows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to… read more

Similar categories in Tommy Pico's Nature Poem book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • poetry
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2. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

By: John G. Neihardt , Black Elk

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The most important aspect of this book is upon the contemporary generation of young Indians who hav… read more

Similar categories in John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • spirituality
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3. Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

By: James R. Hansen , Allan J. McDonald

3.41

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

What they didn't want you to know "We all watched in shock and disbelief when Challenger was lost. … read more

Similar categories in James R. Hansen's Truth, Lies, and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • nonfiction
  • history

4. Last Summer at Mars Hill

By: Elizabeth Hand

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is Elizabeth Hand's long-awaited collection of short stories, centered around her Nebula and W… read more

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5. Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

By: Joy Harjo

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these poems, the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of … read more

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6. Crossing Open Ground

By: Barry Lopez

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and fo… read more

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7. Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

4.25

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more

Similar categories in Oscar Hokeah's Calling for a Blanket Dance book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • native american
  • indigenous
"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

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8. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's An American Sunrise book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • poetry
  • history
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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9. Poet Warrior: A Memoir

By: Joy Harjo

4.35

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's Poet Warrior: A Memoir book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • poetry
  • history
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"

-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir

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10. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

By: Joy Harjo

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Over a long, influential career in poetry, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm, oracular voice… read more

Similar categories in Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • poetry
  • history
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
"Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets."

-Joy Harjo, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

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11. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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12. 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 N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • history
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
"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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13. Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation

By: Tiya Miles

3.56

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning historian shows how girls who found self-understanding in the natural world became… read more

Similar categories in Tiya Miles's Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
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14. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Thunder Song: Essays book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
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15. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir

By: Julia Zarankin

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A writer discovers an unexpected passion for birding, along with a new understanding of the world a… read more

Similar categories in Julia Zarankin's Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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16. 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 N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • nature
"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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17. We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

By: Dahr Jamail

4.47

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis an… read more

Similar categories in Dahr Jamail's We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land by N. Scott Momaday

18. Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

By: N. Scott Momaday

4.23

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

"Dazzling. . . . In glittering prose, Momaday recalls stories passed down through generations, illu… read more

Similar categories in N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • poetry
  • history
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
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19. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

By: Manjula Martin

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural hi… read more

Similar categories in Manjula Martin's The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • nature
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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20. Blood Orange

By: Yaffa As

4.60

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

"Blood Orange" is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She… read more

Similar categories in Yaffa As's Blood Orange book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • poetry
  • nonfiction
"you've drawn every line there could be while we wait for a circle"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

"we know it ends in flame because those with power were never taught to relinquish / we wait for them to / we forget you can't give up what wasn't yours to begin with"

-Yaffa As, Blood Orange

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21. Cyclettes

By: Tree Abraham

3.85

Format: None pages, ebook

Some people “live to ride”, while others simply ride to live. In Cyclettes , author and designer Tr… read more

Similar categories in Tree Abraham's Cyclettes book and N. Scott Momaday's Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • essays

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