I’ve been more into nonfiction lately but I’m open to reading any genre related to the Native American people and their history. Any time period. I read Braiding Sweetgrass recently and really enjoyed it. Thank you! by kaijuxkaiju
BernardFerguson1944 on April 8, 2026 10:45 pm *Cannibal Coast* by Edwin W. Kilman. *The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South* Eric E*.* Bowne. *Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance* by Alvin Josephy. *Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation* by Kenny A. Franks. *The Sand Creek Massacre* by Stan Hoig. *The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877,* edited by R. Eli Paul. *Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad the Sioux and the Panic of 1873* by M. John Lubetkin. *American Indians* by Wiliam T. Hagan. *Fighting Indians of the West* by Dee Brown. *Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas* by Mari Sandoz. *The Battle of the Little Bighorn* by Mari Sandoz. *Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West* by Dee Brown. *Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne. *The Comanchero Frontier: A History of New Mexican-Plains Indian Relations* by Charles L. Kenner. *The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877*, edited by R. Eli Paul. *The Gospel of the Red Man: A Way of Life* by Ernest Thomas Seton and Julia M. Seton, eds. *Black Elk Speaks* by John G. Neihardt. *Ishi in Two Worlds, 50th Anniversary Edition: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America* by Theodora Kroeber. *Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.* by David Grann. *Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means* by Russell Means.
Responsible-Yam4748 on April 8, 2026 10:49 pm These two go well together: Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford (fiction) Cahokia and the North American Worlds by Sarah E Baires (nonfiction)
ConflictGullible392 on April 8, 2026 11:05 pm There, There by Tommy Orange Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle Anything by Louise Erdrich
asimone00 on April 8, 2026 11:54 pm Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah (fiction) There There by Tommy Orange (fiction)
Capybara_99 on April 9, 2026 12:01 am The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History by Ned Blackhawk. An overarching history of native peoples in the US from the time of the first arrival of Europeans to the present day.
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Look up Louise Erdrich and check out her books
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Empire of the summer moon
*Cannibal Coast* by Edwin W. Kilman.
*The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial South* Eric E*.* Bowne.
*Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance* by Alvin Josephy.
*Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation* by Kenny A. Franks.
*The Sand Creek Massacre* by Stan Hoig.
*The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877,* edited by R. Eli Paul.
*Jay Cooke’s Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad the Sioux and the Panic of 1873* by M. John Lubetkin.
*American Indians* by Wiliam T. Hagan.
*Fighting Indians of the West* by Dee Brown.
*Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas* by Mari Sandoz.
*The Battle of the Little Bighorn* by Mari Sandoz.
*Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West* by Dee Brown.
*Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne.
*The Comanchero Frontier: A History of New Mexican-Plains Indian Relations* by Charles L. Kenner.
*The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877*, edited by R. Eli Paul.
*The Gospel of the Red Man: A Way of Life* by Ernest Thomas Seton and Julia M. Seton, eds.
*Black Elk Speaks* by John G. Neihardt.
*Ishi in Two Worlds, 50th Anniversary Edition: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America* by Theodora Kroeber.
*Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I.* by David Grann.
*Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means* by Russell Means.
These two go well together:
Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford (fiction)
Cahokia and the North American Worlds by Sarah E Baires (nonfiction)
*Red deal* by Red Nation
There, There by Tommy Orange
Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Anything by Louise Erdrich
Book of the Little Axe 🙏🏽
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah (fiction)
There There by Tommy Orange (fiction)
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of US History by Ned Blackhawk.
An overarching history of native peoples in the US from the time of the first arrival of Europeans to the present day.