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Native American History

The history of Native Americans in the United States began in the Pre-Columbian era with the settlement of the Americas by the Paleo-Indians. Anthropologists have identified and studied a wide variety of cultures that existed during this era. Their subsequent contact with Europeans had a profound impact on their history.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Native American History"

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720–1877
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

Native American History Books

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Comanche Empire
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
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Lists

John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,300 books — 3,119 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinConspiracy in the Streets by Jon WienerDetroit by Charlie LeDuffThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Histories of United States Cities I (nonfiction)
280 books — 37 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Heart of Everything That Is by Bob DruryThe Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens
"The American Indian Wars" (nonfiction)
171 books — 18 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonBecoming by Michelle ObamaAn American Summer by Alex KotlowitzUgly Prey by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD
Chicago History (nonfiction)
214 books — 15 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Native American History”

“ It is simply not enough to know that English politicians and armies won the battle for eastern America—we already knew that. What we need to take into account, now that history is more than past politics, is that in cultural attraction and educational sophistication the English were decidedly inferior to the their French and Indian rivals, who lost what they did for other reasons. ”
― James Axtell, Invasion Within
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“ Hesitant at first, the Mormons required some encouragement from slavers, who tortured children with knives or hot irons to call attention to their trade and elicit sympathy from potential buyers or threated to kill any child who went unpurchased. Brigham Young's son-in-law Charles Decker witnessed the execution of an Indian girl before he agreed to exchange his gun for another captive. In the end, the Mormons became buyers and even found a way to rationalize their participation in this human mar ...more ”
― Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
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The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong
The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong
Forgotten Rebellion: Black Seminoles and the Largest Slave Revolt in U.S. History
Forgotten Rebellion: Black Seminoles and the Largest Slave Revolt in U.S. History
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