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There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as native)
avg rating 3.97 — 235,456 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as native)
avg rating 4.05 — 288,689 ratings — published 2007
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as native)
avg rating 4.50 — 188,972 ratings — published 2013
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as native)
avg rating 4.26 — 106,063 ratings — published 1970
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as native)
avg rating 4.30 — 212,281 ratings — published 2021
Ceremony (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as native)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,466 ratings — published 1977
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as native)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,707 ratings — published 2017
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as native)
avg rating 4.01 — 29,150 ratings — published 1984
The Round House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as native)
avg rating 3.99 — 127,428 ratings — published 2012
The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as native)
avg rating 4.08 — 99,689 ratings — published 2020
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as native)
avg rating 3.68 — 125,456 ratings — published 2020
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as native)
avg rating 4.09 — 27,113 ratings — published 1993
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as native)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,124 ratings — published 1932
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as native)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,770 ratings — published 2014
Wandering Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as native)
avg rating 3.80 — 40,292 ratings — published 2024
Heart Berries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as native)
avg rating 3.81 — 30,760 ratings — published 2018
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as native)
avg rating 4.25 — 71,351 ratings — published 2010
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as native)
avg rating 3.91 — 88,515 ratings — published 2021
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as native)
avg rating 4.23 — 18,032 ratings — published 2012
Reservation Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as native)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,354 ratings — published 1995
The Seed Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as native)
avg rating 4.25 — 26,645 ratings — published 2021
Night of the Living Rez (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as native)
avg rating 3.86 — 13,801 ratings — published 2022
The Marrow Thieves (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as native)
avg rating 3.93 — 46,407 ratings — published 2017
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as native)
avg rating 4.07 — 364,807 ratings — published 2023
Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as native)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,089 ratings — published 2020
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Never Whistle at Night, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as native)
avg rating 3.84 — 35,224 ratings — published 2023
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as native)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,920 ratings — published 2019
Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)
by (shelved 23 times as native)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,148 ratings — published 1988
House Made of Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as native)
avg rating 3.61 — 10,836 ratings — published 1968
The Plague of Doves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as native)
avg rating 3.80 — 19,255 ratings — published 2008
Lakota Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as native)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,956 ratings — published 1990
Warrior Girl Unearthed (Firekeeper's Daughter, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 4.29 — 32,810 ratings — published 2023
Winter Counts (Virgil Wounded Horse, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 3.83 — 24,568 ratings — published 2020
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,154 ratings — published 2005
Crazy Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 4.19 — 8,047 ratings — published 2012
Winter in the Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,965 ratings — published 1974
Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,355 ratings — published 2007
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,318 ratings — published 1972
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,261 ratings — published 1969
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as native)
avg rating 4.26 — 75,030 ratings — published 2024
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as native)
avg rating 4.09 — 19,879 ratings — published 1993
The Toughest Indian in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as native)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,173 ratings — published 2000
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as native)
avg rating 3.95 — 67,313 ratings — published 2025
Bad Cree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as native)
avg rating 3.89 — 21,515 ratings — published 2023
Indian Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 18 times as native)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,340 ratings — published 1996
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as native)
avg rating 3.88 — 355,039 ratings — published 1960
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as native)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,439 ratings — published 1984
Sisters of the Lost Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as native)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,747 ratings — published 2023
Calling for a Blanket Dance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as native)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,002 ratings — published 2022
A Snake Falls to Earth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as native)
avg rating 3.94 — 12,223 ratings — published 2021
“Everything was an excuse. The felt so concrete, so real at the time. Now they are wispy, pathetic. I was terrified. If I participated in the world I moved closer to, then I would have to stomach the chance that I might fail at every task I tackled.
I didn't want to fail at being Native. Being Native to me then meant not only having the experience of all of these cultural things, but also being decent at them. I wanted to feel a peace in myself that cultural things brought me, but I had never felt so out of my depth. Failure felt imminent.
But I couldn't fail at something I never had the chance to try. So the excuses continued to pour from me, sweetly apologetic to hide the stench of the rotting fear that created them.”
― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
I didn't want to fail at being Native. Being Native to me then meant not only having the experience of all of these cultural things, but also being decent at them. I wanted to feel a peace in myself that cultural things brought me, but I had never felt so out of my depth. Failure felt imminent.
But I couldn't fail at something I never had the chance to try. So the excuses continued to pour from me, sweetly apologetic to hide the stench of the rotting fear that created them.”
― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
“Chapter 90: [This] Countryside
I swear by [this] countryside, you are a native settled on this land, as well as any parent and whatever he may father. We have created man under stress. Does he reckon that no one can do anything against him? He says: "I have used up piles of money!" Does he consider that no one sees him? Have we not granted him both eyes, a tongue and two lips, and guided him along both highroads? Yet he does not tackle the Obstacle!
What will make you realize what the Obstacle is?
It means redeeming the captive, or feeding some orphaned relative on a day of famine or some needy person in distress.
Then he will act like someone who believes, recommends patience and encourages mercifulness. Those will be the companions on the right-hand side, while the ones who disbelieve in Our signs will be companions on the sinister side: above them a fire will hem them in.”
― A Translation Of The Meaning Of The Noble Qur'an
I swear by [this] countryside, you are a native settled on this land, as well as any parent and whatever he may father. We have created man under stress. Does he reckon that no one can do anything against him? He says: "I have used up piles of money!" Does he consider that no one sees him? Have we not granted him both eyes, a tongue and two lips, and guided him along both highroads? Yet he does not tackle the Obstacle!
What will make you realize what the Obstacle is?
It means redeeming the captive, or feeding some orphaned relative on a day of famine or some needy person in distress.
Then he will act like someone who believes, recommends patience and encourages mercifulness. Those will be the companions on the right-hand side, while the ones who disbelieve in Our signs will be companions on the sinister side: above them a fire will hem them in.”
― A Translation Of The Meaning Of The Noble Qur'an
