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There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as native)
avg rating 3.97 — 222,887 ratings — published 2018
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as native)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,272 ratings — published 2007
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as native)
avg rating 4.51 — 169,814 ratings — published 2013
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as native)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,746 ratings — published 1970
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as native)
avg rating 4.31 — 199,366 ratings — published 2021
Ceremony (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as native)
avg rating 3.84 — 26,417 ratings — published 1977
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as native)
avg rating 4.14 — 441,423 ratings — published 2017
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as native)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,432 ratings — published 1984
The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 39 times as native)
avg rating 4.08 — 92,764 ratings — published 2020
The Round House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as native)
avg rating 3.98 — 124,175 ratings — published 2012
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as native)
avg rating 4.09 — 26,819 ratings — published 1993
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as native)
avg rating 3.68 — 112,635 ratings — published 2020
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as native)
avg rating 4.12 — 18,701 ratings — published 1932
Heart Berries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as native)
avg rating 3.82 — 30,006 ratings — published 2018
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 33 times as native)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,325 ratings — published 2014
Wandering Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as native)
avg rating 3.82 — 36,690 ratings — published 2024
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as native)
avg rating 3.93 — 83,270 ratings — published 2021
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as native)
avg rating 4.24 — 17,678 ratings — published 2012
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 29 times as native)
avg rating 4.25 — 66,642 ratings — published 2010
The Marrow Thieves (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as native)
avg rating 3.94 — 43,635 ratings — published 2017
Reservation Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as native)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,218 ratings — published 1995
Night of the Living Rez (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as native)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,168 ratings — published 2022
The Seed Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as native)
avg rating 4.26 — 23,797 ratings — published 2021
Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as native)
avg rating 3.98 — 23,054 ratings — published 2020
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as native)
avg rating 4.08 — 295,730 ratings — published 2023
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (ebook)
by (shelved 23 times as native)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,618 ratings — published 2019
Winter Counts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as native)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,115 ratings — published 2020
House Made of Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as native)
avg rating 3.62 — 10,433 ratings — published 1968
Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)
by (shelved 22 times as native)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,848 ratings — published 1988
The Plague of Doves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as native)
avg rating 3.80 — 18,695 ratings — published 2008
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as native)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,260 ratings — published 1972
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 3.86 — 29,250 ratings — published 2023
Warrior Girl Unearthed (Firekeeper's Daughter, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,014 ratings — published 2023
Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,154 ratings — published 2007
Lakota Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,817 ratings — published 1990
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as native)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,129 ratings — published 1969
Crazy Brave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as native)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,796 ratings — published 2012
Winter in the Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as native)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,709 ratings — published 1974
The Toughest Indian in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as native)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,103 ratings — published 2000
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as native)
avg rating 4.05 — 94,753 ratings — published 2005
Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as native)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,476 ratings — published 1993
Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as native)
avg rating 3.82 — 42,661 ratings — published 2018
Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)
by (shelved 18 times as native)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,341 ratings — published 1986
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as native)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,400 ratings — published 1984
Sisters of the Lost Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as native)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,001 ratings — published 2023
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as native)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,490 ratings — published 2019
Indian Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as native)
avg rating 3.78 — 8,255 ratings — published 1996
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as native)
avg rating 3.88 — 348,950 ratings — published 1960
Ten Little Indians (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as native)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,978 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as native)
avg rating 4.29 — 51,946 ratings — published 2024
“Everything was an excuse. The felt so concrete, so real at the time. Now they are wispy, pathetic. I was terrified. If I participated in the world I moved closer to, then I would have to stomach the chance that I might fail at every task I tackled.
I didn't want to fail at being Native. Being Native to me then meant not only having the experience of all of these cultural things, but also being decent at them. I wanted to feel a peace in myself that cultural things brought me, but I had never felt so out of my depth. Failure felt imminent.
But I couldn't fail at something I never had the chance to try. So the excuses continued to pour from me, sweetly apologetic to hide the stench of the rotting fear that created them.”
― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
I didn't want to fail at being Native. Being Native to me then meant not only having the experience of all of these cultural things, but also being decent at them. I wanted to feel a peace in myself that cultural things brought me, but I had never felt so out of my depth. Failure felt imminent.
But I couldn't fail at something I never had the chance to try. So the excuses continued to pour from me, sweetly apologetic to hide the stench of the rotting fear that created them.”
― Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
“The sun was pushing against the gray horizon hills, sending yellow light across the clouds, and the yellow river sand was speckled with the broken shadows of tamarisk and river willow. The transition was completed. In the west and in the south too, the clouds with round heavy bellies had gathered for the dawn. It was not necessary, but it was right, and even if the sky had been cloudless the end was the same. The ear for the story and the eye for the pattern were theirs; the feeling was theirs: we came out of this land and we are hers.”
― Ceremony
― Ceremony
