Most Read This Week In 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 ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Native Americans"

Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel

The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #26)

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Lost Birds (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #27)

Blessing of the Lost Girls (Joanna Brady #20; Walker Family #6)

The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding

The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West

The Sacred Bridge (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #25)

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Sinister Graves (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #3)

Broken Fields (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #4)

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

The Paranormal Ranger: A Navajo Investigator's Search for the Unexplained

The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Young Readers Edition

Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation

Redemption (Eva "Lightning Dance" Duran #1)

Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science

The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America – A True Story of Rescue and Revenge in Revolutionary 1776

Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home

The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America

Daughter of the Light-Footed People: The Story of Indigenous Marathon Champion Lorena Ramírez

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore

To Walk the Sky: How Iroquois Steelworkers Helped Build Towering Cities – A Beautifully Illustrated History of Mohawk Skywalkers and Their Legacy

The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West

Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)

The Sea-Ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas

Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend : A TOON Graphic

Breaking Free (Colorado High Country, #8)

The Water Lady: How Darlene Arviso Helps a Thirsty Navajo Nation

A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

War Along the Wabash: The Ohio Indian Confederacy's Destruction of the US Army, 1792

Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope

The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls

Related Genres

United States
North America
First Nations

Featured News & Interviews

New Nonfiction to Read This Women's History Month

Read »

Quotes Tagged “Native Americans”

“ The Native Americans know that wolves are mirrors for humans. What they show us are our strengths and weaknesses... When I lived with the wolves, I was proud of the reflection of myself. But when I came back, I always paled in comparison. ”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

8 likes

“ A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. ”
― George Bernard Shaw

822 likes

More quotes...