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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This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
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Python's Kiss
Sisters in the Wind
To the Moon and Back
Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #19)
Badlands (Nora Kelly, #5)
Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)
Lost Birds (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #27)
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
Where They Last Saw Her
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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
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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
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The Night Watchman
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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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
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Maya Angelou
Jimmy said, "We survived slavery. Think about that. Not because we were strong. The American Indians were strong, and they were on their own land. But they have not survived genocide. You know how we survived?" I said nothing. "We put surviving into our poems and into our songs. We put it into our folk tales. We danced surviving in Congo Square in New Orleans and put it in our pots when we cooked pinto beans. We wore surviving on our backs when we clothed ourselves in the colors of the rainb ...more
Maya Angelou, A Song Flung Up to Heaven

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