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Native American History

Books:


Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices,

Wiping the War Paint Off the Lens: Native American Film and Video,

Documents of American Indian Removal: Eyewitness to History, 1st Edition

Native American Ceremonies and Celebrations: From Potlatches to Powwows (Native American Cultures)

Native American Cultures: Native American Homes: From Longhouses to Wigwams, 1st Edition

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Owl Books 2001.

Denetdale, Jennifer Nez. Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

Eco-Hawk, Walter R. In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Fulcrum Publishing, 2013.

______. Tin the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. Fulcrum Publishing, 2010.

Howe, Craig and Kim TallBear, editors. This Stretch of the River: Lakota, Dakota, & Nakota Responses to the Lewis & Clark Expedition and Bicentennial. Oak Lake Writers’ Society, 2006.

Mason, Dale. Indian Gaming: Tribal Sovereignty and American Politics. University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

McCool, Daniel. Native Waters – Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty Era. The University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Meyer, John, editor. American Indians and U.S. Politics: A companion Reader. Praeger Paperback, 2002.

Neihardt, John. Black Elk Speaks. Bison Books, 2004.

Prucha, Francis Paul. Documents of United State Indians. University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Smith, Andrea. Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. South End Press, 2005.

Sullivan Robert. A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village Did What No one Thought It Could. Scribner, 2002.

Wilkins, David E. and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law. University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Wilkinson, Charles. Blood Struggle. W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Wittstock Waterman, Laura and Dick Bancroft. We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement. Borealis Books, 2013.

Fixico, Donals L. The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources. University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

Frazier, Ian. On the Rez. Picador, 2001.

Jenkins, Sally. The Real All Americans. Doubleday, 2007.

McAuliff, Dennis. Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation. Council Oak Books, 1999.

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. Anti-Indianism in Modern America. A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth. University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. New Indians, Old Wars. University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Deloria, J., Vine. God is Red. Fulcrum Publishing, 2003.

Mihesuah, Devon A. Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Waggoner, Josephine and Emily Levine, editors. Witness: A Húnkpapha Historian’s Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas. University of Nebraska Press, 2013.

Meyer, Carter Jones and Diana Royer, editors. Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures. University of Arizona Press, 2001.

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Duke University Press, 2005.

Spindel, Carol. Dancing at Halftime: Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots. NYU Press, 2000.

Las Casas, Bartolome. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. United Kingdom, Penguin Books Limited, 2004.

Mann, Charles C., and Stefoff, Rebecca. Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491. United States, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. United States, Beacon Press, 2014.

Gwynne, S. C.. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. United States, Scribner, 2010.

Ehle, John. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. United Kingdom, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011.

Hearth, Amy Hill, and Strong Medicine. "Strong Medicine" Speaks: A Native American Elder Has Her Say. United States, Atria Books, 2008.

Thornton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. United Kingdom, University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.

O'Brien, Sharon. American Indian Tribal Governments. United Kingdom, University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Skinner, Alanson, and Oneroad, Amos Enos. Being Dakota: Tales and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton. United States, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2003.

Bridger, Bobby. Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull : inventing the Wild West. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2002.

Sweeney, Kevin, and Haefeli, Evan. Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. United Kingdom, University of Massachusetts Press, 2003.

Perdue, Theda, and Green, Michael D.. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series (Penguin Library of American Indian History). New York, Viking, 2007.

Findley, Tim, and Fortunate Eagle, Adam. Heart of the Rock: The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz. United States, University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

Loew, Patty. Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, 2 Edition. United States, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2013.

Treuer, Anton. Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories. United States, Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2010.

Living Stories of the Cherokee. United States, University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley. United States, Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.

Schultz, Duane. Over The Earth I Come: The Great Sioux Uprising Of 1862. United States, St. Martin's Press, 1993.

Mann, John W. W.. Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country. Ukraine, University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Allen, Paula Gunn. The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. United States, Open Road Media, 2015.

Calloway, Colin Gordon. The Shawnees and the war for America. United Kingdom, Viking, 2007.

Powless, Irving. Treaty of Canandaigua 1794: 200 Years of Treaty Relations Between the Iroquois Confederacy and the United States. United States, Clear Light Publishers, 2000.

Waggoner, Josephine, and Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux. With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History. United States, University of Nebraska Press, 1999.