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
Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #19)
Badlands (Nora Kelly, #5)
Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)
Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
Where They Last Saw Her
The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #26)
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
The Bone Thief (Syd Walker #2)
A Council of Dolls
Fire Exit
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Lost Birds (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #27)
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

William Faulkner
... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mound. Aboriginal, it rises profoundly and darkly enigmatic, the only elevation of any kind in the wild, flat jungle of river bottom. Even to some of us - children though we were, yet we were descended to literate, town-bred people - it possessed inferences of secret and violent blood, of savage and sudden destruction, as though the yells and hatchets we associated with Indians through the hidden and ...more
William Faulkner, Collected Stories of William Faulkner

Bridges McCall
The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. ...more
Bridges McCall

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Native Comic Book Society Native Comic Book Society is a forum where Natives and friends of Natives can share, discuss and…more
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The old rivalry. Some of us may remember dressing up as cowboys or indians with our friends and …more
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James Museum Book Club We read books about the American West, both fiction and nonfiction. This book club is sponsored …more
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