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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Sitting Bull's War: The Battle of Little Big Horn and the Fight for Buffalo and Freedom on the Plains
The Bone Thief
Apostle's Cove (Cork O'Connor, #20)
To the Moon and Back
The Mighty Red
The Night Watchman
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
Broken Fields (Cash Blackbear Mysteries, #4)
Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #19)
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
Where Wolves Don't Die
Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)
Blood Sisters
The Bone Thief
Mask of the Deer Woman
Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
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
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
The Sentence
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!
Eddie Izzard

Sherman Alexie
But we reservation Indians don’t get to realize our dreams. We don’t get those chances. Or choices. We’re just poor. That’s all we are. It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you’re poor because you’re stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you’re stupid and ugly because you’re Indian. And because you’re Indian you start believing you’re destined to be poor. It’s an ugly circle and there’s nothing you can do about it. ...more
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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