Non-fiction books about Native American history, culture, and perspectives. Comment if you have recs!
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Upon Her Shoulders: Southeastern Native Women Share Their Stories of Justice, Spirit, and Community
Mary Ann Jacobs
Heart Berries
Terese Marie Mailhot
The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere
Paulette F.C. Steeves
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Ronald Takaki
Talking Indian: Identity and Language Revitalization in the Chickasaw Renaissance
Jenny L. Davis
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Deborah A. Miranda
All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Winona LaDuke
Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
Leah Myers
Warrior Princesses Strike Back: How Lakota Twins Fight Oppression and Heal through Connectedness
Sarah Eagle Heart
A History of My Brief Body
Billy-Ray Belcourt
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
Nick Estes
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, The Premier Edition
John G. Neihardt
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
Pekka Hämäläinen
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Militarization of Indian Country
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown
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