Native Americans

In the United States, Native Americans also known as American Indians or just simply Indians are considered to be people whose pre-Columbian ancestors were indigenous to the lands within the nation's modern boundaries. These peoples were composed of numerous distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups, and many of these groups survive intact today as partially sovereign nations.

The terms Native Americans use to refer to themselves vary regionally and generationally, with many older Native Americans self-identifying as "Indians" or "American Indians", while younger Native Americans often identify
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Apostle's Cove (Cork O'Connor, #20)
To the Moon and Back
The Mighty Red
Badlands (Nora Kelly, #5)
Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #19)
Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)
Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
Fire Exit
Where Wolves Don't Die
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
Where They Last Saw Her
Blessing of the Lost Girls (Joanna Brady #20; Walker Family #6)
The Bone Thief
Lost Birds (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #27)
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
There There
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
The Round House
The Night Watchman
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
Caleb's Crossing
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Sentence
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West

Miles Davis
It’s like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of shit is that, but white people’s shit?
Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography

Slavoj Žižek
For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.
Slavoj Žižek

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