The Bingo Queens of Oneida: How Two M...
Mike HoeftBefore Indian casinos sprouted up around the country, a few enterprising tribes got their start in gambling by opening bingo parlors. A group of women on the Oneida Indian Reservation just outside Green Bay, Wisconsin, introduced bing...
1491: New Revelations of the Americas...
Charles C. MannIn 1491: NEW REVELATIONS OF THE AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS, Charles C. Mann presents an accessible history that effectively wipes away generations of high-school teaching that trivialized, dismissed, or was just flat-out wrong about the ...
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE is an eloquent, fully-documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the 19th century. Using council records, autobiographies and other firsthand descrip...
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native...
David TreuerFINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCEA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR"An informed, mo...
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Ac...
Thomas KingIn The Inconvenient Indian, Thomas King offers a deeply knowing, darkly funny, unabashedly opinionated, and utterly unconventional account of Indian–White relations in North America since initial contact. Ranging freely across the c...
Counting Coup and Cutting Horses: Int...
Anthony R. McGinnisCounting Coup and Cutting Horses is the comprehensive history of more than 150 years of intertribal warfare between northern Plains tribes and a study of the complex rivalries that prevailed among the Native societies that migrated in...
38 Nooses: Lincoln, Little Crow, and ...
Scott W. BergA Kirkus Best Book of the Year In August 1862, after suffering decades of hardship, broken treaties, and relentless encroachment on their land, the Dakota leader Little Crow reluctantly agreed that his people must go to war. After si...
Indian Givers: How Native Americans T...
Jack Weatherford"As entertaining as it is thoughtful....Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate."THE WASHINGTON POSTAfter 500 years, the world's huge debt to the wisdo...
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Sto...
Peter MatthiessenMatthiessen reveals a complex historical struggle between American Indians and the U.S. government and how it influenced the events that lead to the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.
The Earth is Weeping: The Epic Story ...
Peter CozzensWith the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that...
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenou...
Dina Gilio-WhitakerThe story of Native peoples’ resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism\r\n\r\nThrough the unique lens of &...
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Par...
S. C. GwynneS.C. Gwynne's New York Times bestselling historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West is now available from Encore for the first time and at a great low price...
Warrior Nation: A History of the Red ...
Anton TreuerThe Red Lake Nation has a unique and deeply important history. Unlike every other reservation in Minnesota, Red Lake holds its land in common—and, consequently, the tribe retains its entire reservation land base. The people of Red L...
Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill...
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce St...
Elliott WestThis newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and in...
Stolen Generations: Lost Children of ...
Trace L. HentzA highly anticipated follow up to the history-making anthologies TWO WORLDS (Book One) and CALLED HOME (Book Two): Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects series, STOLEN GENERATIONS: Survivors of the Indian Adoption Projects and...
1491: New Revelations of the Americas...
Charles C. MannIn 1491: NEW REVELATIONS OF THE AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS, Charles C. Mann presents an accessible history that effectively wipes away generations of high-school teaching that trivialized, dismissed, or was just flat-out wrong about the ...
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the...
Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizThe first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, desce...
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City...
Timothy R. PauketatThe fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American cit...
A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of...
Elias CastilloThe Spanish missions of California have long been misrepresented as places of benign and peaceful coexistence between Franciscan friars and California Indians. In fact, the mission friars enslaved the California Indians and treated th...
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehum...
Mark CharlesYou cannot discover lands already inhabited. Injustice has plagued American society for centuries. And we cannot move toward being a more just nation without understanding the root causes that have shaped our culture and institutions....
Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Wo...
Brenda J. ChildA groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities In this well-researched and deeply felt account, Brenda J. Child, a professor and a member of the Red Lake Ojibwe tribe, gives Native American women ...
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia ElliottThe Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to \"a mind spread out on the ground.\" In this urgent and visceral work. Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergener...
Encounters at the Heart of the World:...
Elizabeth A. FennEncounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the centre of the North American universe. We know of them mostly becau...
Growing up, I knew two things to be true: My dad was a drunk. Being an Indian was complicated. When I joined the Navy, these two ideas were cemented when my fellow sailors, after finding out that I was an American Indian, wou...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage...
David GrannNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST "Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." —Dave Eggers, New York Times Book ReviewSHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017Named a best book of the year b...
Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, th...
Brian Hicks"Richly detailed and well-researched, this heartbreaking history unfolds like a political thriller with a deeply human side."-Publishers WeeklyToward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored ...
The Militarization of Indian Country
Winona LaDukeWhen it became public that Osama bin Laden’s death was announced with the phrase Geronimo, EKIA!” many Native people, including Geronimo’s descendants, were insulted to discover that the name of a Native patriot was used ...
Ojibwe Sky Star Map - Constellation G...
Annette Sharon LeeA constellation guidebook focusing on Ojibwe Star Knowledge. Greek constellations and astronomical objects of interest are included along with the Ojibwe constellations organized by the four seasons and north circumpolar stars. Writ...
Prairie Man: The Struggle between Sit...
Norman E. MatteoniOne week after the June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Lakota Chief Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had r...