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Native American History Books
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 100,908 ratings — published 1970
Empire of the Summer Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 65,730 ratings — published 2010
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 435,483 ratings — published 2017
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,106 ratings — published 2005
The Comanche Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,831 ratings — published 2008
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,911 ratings — published 2014
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,611 ratings — published 1932
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,511 ratings — published 1988
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 19,628 ratings — published 2006
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,470 ratings — published 2016
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,065 ratings — published 2004
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,321 ratings — published 2023
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,306 ratings — published 1983
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (ebook)
by (shelved 20 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,533 ratings — published 2019
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,403 ratings — published 2013
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,280 ratings — published 1991
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,082 ratings — published 1969
Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,316 ratings — published 2001
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,036 ratings — published 2010
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,872 ratings — published 2020
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,094 ratings — published 2016
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,089 ratings — published 1998
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
by (shelved 14 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,432 ratings — published 2009
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark (History of the American West)
by (shelved 13 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 291 ratings — published 2003
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,206 ratings — published 1998
Ceremony (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 26,112 ratings — published 1977
Lakota Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,785 ratings — published 1990
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,963 ratings — published 1983
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,535 ratings — published 1942
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid, and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,730 ratings — published 2016
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,666 ratings — published 1988
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,604 ratings — published 2022
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History)
by (shelved 9 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,159 ratings — published 2019
Son of the Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,249 ratings — published 1984
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 395 ratings — published 2006
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,103 ratings — published 1992
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,257 ratings — published 2005
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 218 ratings — published 2002
An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (Early American Studies)
by (shelved 8 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 104 ratings — published 2011
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,242 ratings — published 1972
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 10,066 ratings — published 2011
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,391 ratings — published 1984
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 636 ratings — published 1978
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,665 ratings — published 1994
Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 519 ratings — published
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 165,366 ratings — published 2013
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,974 ratings — published 2019
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 17,568 ratings — published 2012
The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living (Compass)
by (shelved 7 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,928 ratings — published 2001
Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as native-american-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 822 ratings — published 2014
“If we were to add up all the Indian slaves taken in the New World from the time of Columbus to the end of the nineteenth century, the figure would run somewhere between 2.5 and 5 million slaves.”
― The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
― The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
“They missed the chance to learn that “savage” and “civilized” are relative terms without objective authority or content, that “men call that barbarism” which simply is “not common to them”. Such a lesson was badly needed in that fiercely intolerant age, as it still is in our own more subtly and intolerant one.”
― The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America
― The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America
