Native Books Encompassing History & Lifeways
Native American books encompass rich and diverse range of literature written by or about Indigenous peoples, featuring themes of cultural identity, history, resilience, and connection to the natural world.
Bachelder, Jody. Here First. 15 June 2022.
Bordewich, Fergus M. Killing the White Man’s Indian : Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. New York, Anchor Books, 1997.
Bourne, Russell. The Red King’s Rebellion. Oxford University Press, USA, 1991.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West. 1970. New York, Fall River Press, 1970.
Calloway, Colin G. After King Philip’s War : Presence and Persistence in Indian New England. Hanover, Nh, University Press Of New England, 1997.
Connole, Dennis A. The Indians of the Nipmuck Country in Southern New England, 1630-1750. McFarland, 9 Jan. 2007.
Coombs, Linda. Colonization and the Wampanoag Story. Crown Books for Young Readers, 12 Sept. 2023.
David Wallace Adams. Education for Extinction : American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence, Kan., University Press Of Kansas, 1995.
Dennis Lyle Cerrotti. Hidden Genocide, Hidden People. Wellesley, Ma, Sea Venture Press, 2014.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press, 3 Oct. 2014.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, and Dina Gilio-Whitaker. “All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths about Native Americans. Boston, Beacon Press, 2016.Green, Michael S. Lincoln and Native Americans. SIU Press, 3 Sept. 2021.
Gwynne, Samuel C. Empire of the Summer Moon : Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. New York, Ny Scribner, 2011.
Johnson, Steven F. Ninnuock (The People). Bliss PublishngCompany, Inc., 1995Kelly-Gangi, Carol. Essential Native Wisdom. 2021.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Milkweed Editions, 2013.
Krauthamer, Barbara. Black Slaves, Indian Masters : Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. Chapel Hill, University Of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Little. Reconnections. 2025.
Mancall, Peter C. Deadly Medicine : Indians and Alcohol in Early America. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1997.Mann, Charles C. 1491 : New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus. 2005. New York, Vintage, 2011.
Mankiller, Wilma, and Michael Wallis. Mankiller : A Chief and Her People. New York, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000.
Ostler, Jeffrey. Surviving Genocide : Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas. New Haven Yale University Press, 2019.
O’Toole, Marjory Gomez. If Jane Should Want to Be Sold. 2016.
Reséndez, Andrés . The Other Slavery : The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Boston, Ma, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Spotted, Larry. The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 22 Nov. 2016.
Townsend, Camilla. Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Treuer, Anton. Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask. Saint Paul, Mn, Borealis Books, 2012.
Trumbull, James Hammond. Natick Dictionary. Legare Street Press, 27 Oct. 2022.
William Loren Katz. Black Indians. Simon and Schuster, 31 Dec. 2030.Yvonne Wakim Dennis, et al. Native American Firsts. Multicultural History & Heroes, 4 Oct. 2022.