Biography & Autobiography - Native Americans

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Par...

S. C. Gwynne

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche...

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Published: May 2011

Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Ind...

Alma H. Snell

“I became what the Crows call káalisbaapite—a ‘grandmother’s grandchild.’ That means that I was always with my Grandma, and I learned from her. I learned how to do things in the old ways.”—Al...

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Published: Sep 2001

Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Surviv...

Jennifer Niven

Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic.In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned.When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed ...

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Published: Nov 2004

My Indian Boyhood, New Edition

Luther Standing Bear

Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux so...

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Published: Nov 2006

Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman...

Yvette D. Melanson

 In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a 'Lost Bird,' a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grie...

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Published: Jan 2000

Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leade...

R. Eli Paul

Red Cloud was the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. Here, for the first time in print, is Red Cloud's 'as-told-to' autobiography in which he shares the story of his early years.

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Published: Jan 1997

"I Am a Man": Chief Standing Bear's J...

Joe Starita

In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears. "I Am a Man...

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Published: Jan 2010

Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux M...

Leonard Crow Dog

From the co-author of Lakota Woman, which has sold more than 150,000 paperback copies, comes a compelling account detailing the unique experiences and spiritual knowledge accumulated by four generations of powerful medicine men.

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Published: Feb 1996

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Thr...

Noe Alvarez

In thisNew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice, the son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir th...

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Published: Mar 2021

A History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt

\"In this stunning essay-collection-cum-prose-poem-cycle, Belcourt meditates on the difficulty and necessity of finding joy as a queer NDN in a country that denies that joy all too often. Out of the \'ruins of the museum of political ...

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Published: Jul 2020

With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tell...

Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun

With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857–1945), the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brule Lakota woman, was raised near Fort Laramie and experienced firstha...

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Published: Aug 1999

At the End of Ridge Road

Joseph Bruchac

A noted teller of the traditional tales of the Adirondacks and of Native peoples everywhere, Joseph Bruchac has performed throughout the world. That gift for narrative informs this revealing autobiography. Tracing his progression from...

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Published: Mar 2005

More Encounters with Star People: Urb...

Ardy Sixkiller Clarke

AUTHENTIC STORIES OF ALIEN CONTACT WITH URBAN AMERICAN INDIANS Following on her bestselling book, "Encounters with Star People," which told the stories of those living "on the reservation," Ardy Sixkiller Clarke's ...

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Published: Jul 2016

Lakota Woman

Mary Crow Dog

Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures fo...

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Published: Jun 2011

The True Story of Pocahontas: The Ot...

Linwood Custalow

The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History incorporates the sacred oral history of the Mattaponi that has been passed down to Lin 'Little Bear' since his childhood, by his father, the late Mattaponi Chief Webster 'Little ...

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Published: Jan 2007

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains

Charles Alexander Eastman

Raised as a young Sioux in the 1860s and 1870s, Eastman knew some of the Indian leaders he portrays here in vivid, biographical sketches. Included are Red Cloud, Rain-in-the-Face, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Little Crow, Chief Joseph a...

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Published: Nov 2011

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions

Richard Erdoes

Lame DeerStoryteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, ...

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Published: Oct 1994

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

Joy Harjo

"Compressed . . . lyrical . . . unflinching . . . raw. . . . Harjo is a magician and a master of the English language."—Jonah Raskin, San Francisco ChronicleIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry...

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Published: Jul 2013

Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoi...

Ernestine Hayes

In the spring, the bear returns to the forest, the glacier returns to its source, and the salmon returns to the fresh water where it was spawned. Drawing on the special relationship that the Native people of southeastern Alaska have a...

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Published: Sep 2006

Dreaming Bears: A Gwich'in Indian Sto...

J. Michael Holloway

Dreaming Bears is the true story of the rare friendship that develops between a young medical student with deep roots in the South and an elderly Indian couple in the wilds of northeast Alaska. In 1961, Mike Holloway, his brother Ted,...

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Published: May 2014

Life Among The Piutes: Their Wrongs A...

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins

Excerpt: 'FIRST MEETING OF PIUTES AND WHITES.I WAS born somewhere near 1844, but am not sure of the precise time. I was a very small child when the first white people came into our country. They came like a lion, yes, like a roaring l...

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Published: Sep 1994

A Soldier's Silent Prayer: The Surviv...

Sherry Wickliffe Kast

Phillip W. Coon's life is an incredible journey – one that took him from a small Indian community near Mason, Oklahoma in the 1920s to the world stage as the United States declared war against Germany and Japan in December 1941. Phi...

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Published: Jun 2015

Sitting Bull - Paperback: His Life an...

Ernie Lapointe

This story of Native American History, told by a Native American, provides a new perspective on the iconic legend Sitting Bull. Now in paperback, this is the only book on Sitting Bull written by a lineal descendant of the famous Hunk...

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Published: Apr 2021

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiograph...

Sasha Lapointe

Winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award An Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage...

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Published: Mar 2023

Pretty-shield: Medicine Woman of the ...

Frank B. Linderman

A rare, documented account of the life of a Crow medicine woman, drawn from interviews conducted by legendary writer and ethnographer Frank Bird Linderman and told in her own words.In the spring of 1931, Pretty-shield, a grandmother a...

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Published: Aug 2021

They Called Me Uncivilized: The Memoi...

Walter Littlemoon

Walter Littlemoon's memoir, They Called Me Uncivilized, is a call to awareness from within the heart of Wounded Knee. In telling his story, Littlemoon describes the impact federal Indian policies have had on his life and on the histor...

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Published: Aug 2009

Red Cloud: Oglala Legend (South Dakot...

John D. McDermott

No Indian of modern times can compare with him in ability, courage and statecraft. Denver Times, 16 April 1902 A celebrated warrior who led his people to victory on the battlefield, Red Cloud was also a skilled diplomat who transit...

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Published: Jun 2015

Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

Darrel McLeod

As a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree family's history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror―of the strong men in their family, ...

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Published: Jun 2019

Dying in Indian Country: Revised Edit...

Elizabeth Morris

Dying in Indian Country is the true story of a father who, recognizing how current tribal and federal government policies were destroying his family, embarked on a bold journey of change. The names of children who are perishing daily ...

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Published: Dec 2015

Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Da...

Leonard F. Peltier

Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark.In 1977, Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents. He has affirmed his i...

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Published: Jun 2000
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