November is National Native American Heritage Month! This year, indie bookstores put up displays, posted on social media, held events, and appeared at local celebrations.
Here's how a few of our member stores celebrated this month.
(Did your store hold an event to celebrate National Native American Heritage Month? Email [email protected] and tell us about it!)
Ballast Book Company
Bremerton, WA
Ballast Book Company participated in a screening for the film Sugarcane by their local Oscar-nominated documentarian, Julian Brave NoiseCat. They were at the event selling his new book, We Survived the Night (an Indies Introduce title!), but they also brought along titles by other Indigenous authors.
They've also been sharing titles in-store and on Instagram from both big publishers and indie presses!
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Green Feather Book Company
Norman, OK
Green Feather Book Company hosted a poetry night featuring Chelsea T. Hicks, one of the authors who contributed to the new anthology, Beyond The Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms.
Green Feather Book Company said that while this is the first time Hicks has been the featured poet at their monthly poetry reading, she's appeared at the store before, including for Native American Heritage Month last year, when she shared a reading from her book, A Calm and Normal Heart.
Quiet Quail Books and Black Walnut Books
San Bernardino, CA and Glens Falls, NY
Quiet Quail Books teamed up with Black Walnut Books to put together the Indigenous Voices Bookstagram Tour, showcasing Indigenous-owned bookstores across the country as well as Indigenous authors and bookstagrammers!
The King's English
Salt Lake City, UT
The King's English partnered with the University of Utah's Center for Native Excellence & Tribal Engagement to host a discussion of Max Perry Mueller's new book, Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West. The event also featured Ute knowledge keeper Forrest S. Cuch.
The King's English told Bookselling This Week that more than a hundred people attended the November 4 event, and that they plan to hold partner with the Center for Native Excellence & Tribal Engagement again in the future!
