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Updated November 9, 2023

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500 nations : an illustrated history of North American Indians

Josephy, Alvin M.

Paper Book

The story of Native American leaders, customs, political systems, and ways of life, this is American history from the Native American perspective: friendship, betrayal, war, and ultimately, the loss of homeland. A companion volume to the CBS series produced by Kevin Costner, Jack Leustig, and James...

American Indian higher educational experiences : cultural visions and personal journeys

Huffman, Terry E.

Paper Book

American Indian Higher Educational Experiences examines the multiple ways sixty-nine American Indian college students construct and use their ethnic identity while enrolled in a predominantly non-Indian university. Although their cultural backgrounds and orientations differ widely, for all of...

American Indian myths and legends

Erdoes, Richard

Paper Book

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West

Brown, Dee Alexander.

Paper Book

Doumented account of the decimation of Native Americans in the last half of the 19th century, told from the Indian viewpoint.

The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

Perdue, Theda

Paper Book

In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. Historians...

Edward S. Curtis : coming to light

Makepeace, Anne.

Paper Book

Bold, sometimes abrasive, forever passionate, Edward Curtis was the quintessential romantic visionary. Curtis struggled through an impoverished boyhood in Minnesota to become a successful society photographer in Seattle. But he soon moved far beyond weddings and studio portraits to his lifes worka...

Eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers : poems

Skeets, Jake

Paper Book

Winner of the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner of a 2020 Whiting Award in Poetry Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry Selected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is a...

The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890 to the present

Treuer, David

Paper Book

Beginning with the tribes' devastating loss of land and the forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools, he shows how the period of greatest adversity also helped to incubate a unifying Native identity. He traces how conscription in the US military and the pull of urban...

Indian blues : American Indians and the politics of music, 1879-1934

Troutman, John William.

Paper Book

From the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, the U.S. government sought to control practices of music on reservations and in Indian boarding schools. At the same time, Native singers, dancers, and musicians created new opportunities through musical performance to resist and...

Indian removal : a Norton casebook

Heidler, David Stephen

Paper Book

Placing Indian removal in political and social contexts, the editors have selected contemporary primary-source documents that reveal the motives and perspectives of both whites and Indians and cover the complicated influences of Jacksonian Democracy and the early stirrings of what would later be...

An indigenous peoples' history of the United States

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne

Paper Book

New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples ...

Legacy : trauma, story and Indigenous healing

Methot, Suzanne

Paper Book

Winner of the 2019-20 Huguenot Society of Canada Award "Powerful ... A deeply empathetic and inspiring work with insights of value to anyone struggling to overcome personal or communal trauma." -- Library Journal "[A] beautifully written book about...

Living nations, living words : an anthology of first peoples poetry

Harjo, Joy

Paper Book

Joy Harjo, the first Native poet to serve as U.S. Poet Laureate, has championed the voices of Native peoples past and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of contemporary Native poets into a national, fully digital map of story, sound, and space, celebrating their vital and...

Love medicine

Erdrich, Louise.

Paper Book

The first book in Erdrich's Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience--now resequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters.

Mother Earth, Father Sky : Native American myth

Lowenstein, Tom.

Paper Book

Explore the rich worldview of the first Americans, from creation stories to tales of the afterlife. Learn about the ceremonies and rituals that connect these people to each other and to the earth and animals that are so revered in Native American cultures.

Mythic beings : spirit art of the Northwest coast

Wyatt, Gary

Paper Book

Mythic Beings brings together 80 outstanding works by 20 contemporary artists that powerfully interpret Northwest Coast myths and legends. These works include totem poles, argillite sculptures, jewelry in silver and gold, carved and painted boxes, painted drums, and masks. They depict...

The Native American identity in sports : creating and preserving a culture

Salamone, Frank A.

Paper Book

On October 15, 1964 Billy Mills became the only American to win an Olympic Gold Medal for the 10,000 meters. It was but one notable triumph in sports by a Native American. Yet, unlike Mills's achievement, most significant contributions from Native Americans have gone unheralded. From individual...

Native American legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley

Judson, Katharine Berry.

Paper Book

-- Collected almost 100 years ago, these timeless tales reveal the central beliefs and guiding principles of Winnebago, Ojibwa, Menominee, and other peoples and provide a window into their outlook and aspirations. An introduction by historian Peter Iverson highlights the divergent ways Native...

Native American literature : a brief introduction and anthology

Vizenor, Gerald Robert

Paper Book

This is one of a series of brief anthologies designed for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. The series aims to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature. Each text is organized...

Native American voices on identity, art, and culture : objects of everlasting esteem

Williams, Lucy Fowler.

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The dynamic discourse stimulated by 78 magnificent objects created by Native Americans over the years, now housed in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and the responses of contemporary Native Americans to those objects forms the core of this book. As seen in...

New poets of Native nations

Erdrich, Heid E.

Paper Book

A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first century New Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry....

North American Indian art

Penney, David W.

Paper Book

This timely book surveys the artistic traditions of indigenous North America, from those of ancient cultures to the work of modern artists. The text is organized geographically, covering tribes as wide-ranging as the Navajo, Cheyenne, Chumash, Tsimshian and Inuit, and draws upon Native American...

Project 562 : changing the way we see Native America

Wilbur, Matika

Paper Book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . A photographic and narrative celebration of contemporary Native American life and cultures, alongside an in-depth examination of issues that Native people face, by celebrated photographer and storyteller Matika Wilbur of the Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes. ...

Religion and healing in Native America : pathways for renewal

Crawford O'Brien, Suzanne J.

Paper Book

What it means to be healthy or to heal is not universal from culture to culture, from religion to religion. Indeed, in many cultures religion and healing are intimately tied to each other. In Native American communities healing is conceived as the place where ideas about the body and selfhood are...

Silko : writing storyteller and medicine woman

Fitz, Brewster E.

Paper Book

Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko was raised in a culture with a strong oral tradition. In this examination of Silko's award-winning literature, Fitz explores the complex dynamic between the spoken story and the written word.

The Sioux chef's indigenous kitchen

Sherman, Sean

Paper Book

2018 James Beard Award Winner: Best American Cookbook Named one of the Best Cookbooks of 2017 by NPR, The Village Voice, Smithsonian Magazine, UPROXX, New York Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Mpls. St....

Southwest Indian painting; a changing art

Tanner, Clara Lee.

Paper Book

There there

Orange, Tommy

Paper Book

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. A contemporary classic, this...

Totem poles

Stewart, Hilary

Paper Book

Stewart portrays the historical and cultural background of totem poles, their types and purposes, and the tools and techniques of carving and raising them. In explaining how to look at poles, she describes and illustrates a broad array of creatures and objects, gives their meaning, and tells some of...

Tracks : a novel

Erdrich, Louise.

Paper Book

Set in the early 1900s, Tracks follows a North Dakota Indian tribe and its struggle to keep their land out of the hands of an encroaching white society.

Unworthy republic : the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory

Saunt, Claudio

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On May 28, 1830, Congress authorized the expulsion of indigenous peoples from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Over the next decade, Native Americans saw their homelands and possessions stolen through fraud, intimidation, and murder. Thousands lost their lives. In this...

Voices from Haskell : Indian students between two worlds, 1884-1928

Vučković, Myriam.

Paper Book

Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values. For a century and a quarter since that time, this famous boarding school institution has challenged and touched the lives of tens...

With eagle glance : American Indian photographic images, 1868 to 1931 : an exhibition of selected photographs from the collection of Warren Adelson and Ira Spanierman

Adelson, Warren.

Paper Book

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