5 Native authors to read on Indigenous Peoples Day

Drew Hayden Taylor: Ojibway playwright, filmmaker and comedian

• Recommended: "Dead White Writer on the Floor," a two-act play examining (and poking fun at) fictional Native characters written by white people.

Peter Razor: First-time Ojibwe memoirist

• Recommended: "While the Locust Slept," in which Razor shares his harrowing story of growing up as a ward of the state of Minnesota in the 1930s.

Joy Harjo: First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate

• Recommended: "An American Sunrise," a collection of Harjo's poems on returning to her family's homeland and exploring her tribe's history.

Angeline Boulley: Ojibwe New York Times bestselling young adult author

• Recommended: "Firekeeper's Daughter," a YA thriller about a Native teen rooting out corruption in her community.

Diane Wilson: Award-winning Dakota fiction writer and essayist

• Recommended: "The Seed Keeper," which follows a Dakota family for several generations and the women who protected their family seeds.

Thought bubble: I plan to read "The Seed Keeper" after I finish "LaRose" by Louise Erdrich. I'm 50 pages in and already recommend it.