Native Americans

In the United States, Native Americans also known as American Indians or just simply Indians are considered to be people whose pre-Columbian ancestors were indigenous to the lands within the nation's modern boundaries. These peoples were composed of numerous distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups, and many of these groups survive intact today as partially sovereign nations.

The terms Native Americans use to refer to themselves vary regionally and generationally, with many older Native Americans self-identifying as "Indians" or "American Indians", while younger Native Americans often identify
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Apostle's Cove (Cork O'Connor, #20)
To the Moon and Back
The Mighty Red
Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #19)
Badlands (Nora Kelly, #5)
Lightning Strike (Cork O’Connor, #0)
Shadow of the Solstice: A Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito Novel
Where They Last Saw Her
The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito #26)
Shutter (Rita Todacheene, #1)
The Bone Thief (Syd Walker #2)
A Council of Dolls
Fire Exit
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Lost Birds (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #27)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
There There
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
The Round House
The Night Watchman
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
Caleb's Crossing
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Sentence
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West
The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe MartinThe First Strawberries by Joseph BruchacThe Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul GobleFrog Girl by Paul Owen LewisThe Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola
Native American Picture Books
350 books — 65 voters
The Great War of Hind by Vaibhav AnandLife of Pi by Yann MartelTe Amo... I LOVE YOU by Rohit  SharmaThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Blue Monsoon by Damyanti Biswas
The India Reading List
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Paul Rudnick
Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf, and eat hot h'ors d'ourves. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller. And ...more
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
And by then, I well knew what would be done upon that land, how the sin of theft would be multiplied by the sin of bondage.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer

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