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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map at Seattle Art Museum -- Books for Youth

The Seattle Art Museum is exhibiting “Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map” from February 29 to May 12, 2024. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation) is one of the most innovative and significant artists of her generation. As a multifaceted artist, activist, curator, and educator, she positions Native American art at the center of today’s critical dialogues around land, social justice, preservation, and sustainability. For further exploration of themes presented in this exhibition, here are books for kids and teens, selected by Seattle Public Library youth services librarians. Most of these books are written and/or illustrated by Indigenous creators. We have noted their tribal affiliations when possible.

The Seattle Public Library

25 items

  • Ancestor Approved

    Intertribal Stories for Kids

    KIDS FICTION / Editor Cynthia Leitich Smith (enrolled Muscogee Creek) describes this anthology as a "sampling of the many rising Indigenous voices who are changing children's literature for the better." [Publishers Weekly]
    BookNew York, NY : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — J ANCESTOR A 2021
  • TEEN FICTION / Author Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2021. — YA BOULLEY 2021
  • PICTURE BOOK FOLKTALE / Beautifully illustrated and narrated in the tradition of the Salish and Kootenai Tribes, this account of conservation as the legacy of one generation to the next is about being good to the land that has been good to…
    BookLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2011] — J398.20899 C76012B 2011
  • KIDS FICTION / Author Christine Day is an enrolled citizen of the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe.
    BookNew York, NY : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — J DAY
  • TEEN FICTION / Author Cherie Dimaline is a registered and claimed member of the Métis Nation of Ontario.
    BookNew York : Amulet Books, [2021] — YA DIMALIN 2021
  • Apple

    Skin to the Core : a Memoir in Words and Pictures

    Gansworth, Eric, 1965-
    TEEN NONFICTION / Author Eric Gansworth (Sˑha-weñ na-saeˀ), is a member of Eel clan, enrolled Onondaga, born and raised at the Tuscarora Nation.
    BookMontclair, NJ : Levine Querido, 2020. — YA 970.00497 G157G 2020
  • PICTURE BOOK / Author & illustrator Michaela Goade is an enrolled member of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — E GOADE
  • PICTURE BOOK / The 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States (2019-2022), Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Illustrator Michaela Goade is an enrolled member of the Tlingit & Haida…
    BookNew York : Random House Studio, [2023] — E HARJO
  • PICTURE BOOK / Author Hali Heavy Shield is a multidisciplinary artist and a member of the Kainai (Blood) Tribe of Southern Alberta.
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Second Story Press, [2023] — E HEAVY SHIE
  • KIDS NONFICTION / In this alphabet book highlighting women artists, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is included under 'H is for Horse' - as "she often includes horses as both a personal symbol...and a political one..."
    BookNew York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2020] — J704.04209 L111W 2020
  • PICTURE BOOK NONFICTION / Author Carole Lindstrom is Anishinaabe/Métis and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. Illustrator Bridget George is an Anishinaabe author and illustrator raised on Kettle and Stony Point First…
    BookNew York : Roaring Brook Press, 2023. — JB P368L 2023
  • PICTURE BOOK / Author Carole Lindstrom is Anishinaabe/Métis and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. Illustrator Steph Littlebird is an artist, curator, writer, and a registered member of Oregon’s Grand Ronde…
    BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2023. — E LINDSTROM
  • PICTURE BOOK / Author Carole Lindstrom is Anishinaabe/Métis and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. Illustrator Michaela Goade is an enrolled member of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
    BookNew York, NY : Roaring Brook Press, 2020. — E LINDSTROM
  • TEEN FICTION / Author Darcie Little Badger is an enrolled member of the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas.
    BookMontclair : Levine Querido, 2020. — YA LITTLE BAD 2020
  • KIDS FICTION / Author Charlene Willing McManis was an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde (Umpqua). Co-author Traci Sorell is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation.
    BookNew York : Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc., [2019] — J MCMANIS
  • Grandma's Tipi

    a Present-day Lakota Story

    Nelson, S. D.
    PICTURE BOOK / Author & illustrator S.D. Nelson is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakotas.
    BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2023. — E NELSON
  • #NotYourPrincess

    Voices of Native American Women

    TEEN NONFICTION / Winner of the 2018 American Indian Youth Literature Young Adult Book Award from the American Indian Library Association.
    BookToronto : Annick Press Ltd., 2017. — YA 971.00497 N849 2017
  • KIDS NONFICTION / Author Simon J. Ortiz is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Acoma. Illustrator Sharol Graves is a member of the Absentee Shawnee tribe.
    BookNew York : Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, 2017. — J970.00497 Or87P 2017
  • KIDS NONFICTION / Authors Leona and Gabrielle Prince are from the Lake Babine nation and Nak'azdli Whu'ten and belong to the Likh Tsa Mis Yu (Beaver) Clan. Illustrator Carla Joseph is a Cree artist from Prince George, British Columbia.
    BookVictoria, British Columbia : Orca Book Publishers, 2022. — J170.83 P9355B 2022