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Indigenous History Books
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 40 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,739 ratings — published 2014
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 102,991 ratings — published 1970
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 175,803 ratings — published 2013
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 17,777 ratings — published 2012
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 450,820 ratings — published 2017
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 95,727 ratings — published 2005
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,766 ratings — published 2022
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 68,181 ratings — published 2010
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,743 ratings — published 2023
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,791 ratings — published 2019
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,682 ratings — published 2019
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,863 ratings — published 1932
The Comanche Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,876 ratings — published 2008
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,535 ratings — published 2013
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.57 — 9,978 ratings — published 2018
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life (CPS)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,101 ratings — published 2013
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,135 ratings — published 2016
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,539 ratings — published 2019
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,798 ratings — published 2024
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,574 ratings — published 1988
Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,129 ratings — published 2024
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,282 ratings — published 1972
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 227,453 ratings — published 2018
The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,175 ratings — published 2004
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.52 — 14,587 ratings — published 2017
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,601 ratings — published 2016
Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 20,406 ratings — published 2006
They Called Me Number One (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,129 ratings — published 2012
A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 329 ratings — published 1999
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 3.75 — 967 ratings — published 2023
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 2,812 ratings — published 2022
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,357 ratings — published 2019
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,915 ratings — published 2020
Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,146 ratings — published 2019
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (The Lamar Series in Western History)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,189 ratings — published 2019
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,335 ratings — published 1983
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,175 ratings — published 1969
The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,104 ratings — published 1998
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,682 ratings — published
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,034 ratings — published 1983
Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.44 — 79 ratings — published 1975
Kill the Indian, Save the Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.42 — 226 ratings — published 2004
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 422 ratings — published 1996
The North-West Is Our Mother: The Story of Louis Riel's People, the Metis Nation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 974 ratings — published 2019
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Indigenous Americas)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,190 ratings — published 2017
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Indigenous Americas)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.48 — 927 ratings — published 2014
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 21,098 ratings — published 2011
“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,999 ratings — published 2016
A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.49 — 788 ratings — published 2015
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as indigenous-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 45,745 ratings — published 2025
“We did not arrive on this land as labor. We were already here—and history has been editing that fact ever since.”
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“Around the world other countries have laws to protect their archaeological heritage...We continue to do a very bad job of preserving and managing our own heritage, a heritage that also belongs to the Native Americans who preceded us here.”
― Famous Florida Sites: Mt. Royal and Crystal River
― Famous Florida Sites: Mt. Royal and Crystal River











