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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 718 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 287,612 ratings — published 2007
There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 709 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 232,545 ratings — published 2018
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 651 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.26 — 104,837 ratings — published 1970
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 636 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.14 — 461,992 ratings — published 2017
The Round House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 461 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.99 — 126,491 ratings — published 2012
Firekeeper’s Daughter (Firekeeper's Daughter, #1)
by (shelved 406 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.30 — 209,241 ratings — published 2021
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 388 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.50 — 183,710 ratings — published 2013
The Night Watchman (ebook)
by (shelved 352 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.08 — 97,765 ratings — published 2020
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 325 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 70,089 ratings — published 2010
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
by (shelved 293 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,923 ratings — published 1984
Ceremony (Paperback)
by (shelved 290 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.84 — 27,223 ratings — published 1977
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (Paperback)
by (shelved 283 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,025 ratings — published 1932
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.09 — 27,030 ratings — published 1993
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 264 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.68 — 121,738 ratings — published 2020
The Sentence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 238 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 87,357 ratings — published 2021
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3)
by (shelved 226 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,338 ratings — published 2014
Wandering Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 197 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.81 — 39,499 ratings — published 2024
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,189 ratings — published 2005
The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)
by (shelved 184 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.00 — 33,294 ratings — published 1970
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.07 — 346,626 ratings — published 2023
House Made of Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.61 — 10,734 ratings — published 1968
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 180 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.39 — 7,121 ratings — published 2019
The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)
by (shelved 180 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,283 ratings — published 1999
The Plague of Doves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.80 — 19,078 ratings — published 2008
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 166 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.88 — 353,330 ratings — published 1960
Tracks (Love Medicine. #3)
by (shelved 166 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,068 ratings — published 1988
Lakota Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,926 ratings — published 1990
Trail of Lightning (The Sixth World, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.95 — 27,770 ratings — published 2018
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (ebook)
by (shelved 159 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,804 ratings — published 2019
Reservation Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,315 ratings — published 1995
We Are Water Protectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.48 — 9,147 ratings — published 2020
LaRose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.92 — 25,034 ratings — published 2016
The Seed Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.25 — 25,973 ratings — published 2021
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women, #1)
by (shelved 146 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.91 — 138,241 ratings — published 1998
Heart Berries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.81 — 30,606 ratings — published 2018
Dance Hall of the Dead (Leaphorn & Chee, #2)
by (shelved 140 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,359 ratings — published 1973
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,234 ratings — published 1969
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.13 — 18,484 ratings — published 2017
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.18 — 13,906 ratings — published 2001
Flight (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,314 ratings — published 2007
Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,610 ratings — published 1988
Winter Counts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.83 — 24,147 ratings — published 2020
The Marrow Thieves (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.93 — 45,790 ratings — published 2017
Fools Crow (Contemporary American Fiction)
by (shelved 120 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,528 ratings — published 1986
Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as native-american)
avg rating 3.97 — 23,850 ratings — published 2020
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,368 ratings — published 1983
Warrior Girl Unearthed (Firekeeper's Daughter, #2)
by (shelved 118 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.29 — 31,941 ratings — published 2023
American Indian Myths and Legends (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,430 ratings — published 1984
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.27 — 69,932 ratings — published 2024
This Tender Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as native-american)
avg rating 4.39 — 228,946 ratings — published 2019
“They're all gone, my tribe is gone. Those blankets they gave us, infected with smallpox, have killed us. I'm the last, the very last, and I'm sick, too. So very sick. Hot. My fever burning so hot.
I have to take off my clothes, feel the cold air, splash water across my bare skin. And dance. I'll dance a Ghost Dance. I'll bring them back. Can you hear the drums? I can hear them, and it's my grandfather and grandmother singing. Can you hear them?
I dance one step and my sister rises from the ash. I dance another and a buffalo crashes down from the sky onto a log cabin in Nebraska. With every step, an Indian rises. With every other step, a buffalo falls.
I'm growing, too. My blisters heal, my muscles stretch, expand. My tribe dances behind me. At first they are no bigger than children. Then they begin to grow, larger than me, larger than the trees around us. The buffalo come to join us and their hooves shake the earth, knock all the white people from their beds, send their plates crashing to the floor.
We dance in circles growing larger and larger until we are standing on the shore, watching all the ships returning to Europe. All the white hands are waving good-bye and we continue to dance, dance until the ships fall off the horizon, dance until we are so tall and strong that the sun is nearly jealous. We dance that way.”
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
I have to take off my clothes, feel the cold air, splash water across my bare skin. And dance. I'll dance a Ghost Dance. I'll bring them back. Can you hear the drums? I can hear them, and it's my grandfather and grandmother singing. Can you hear them?
I dance one step and my sister rises from the ash. I dance another and a buffalo crashes down from the sky onto a log cabin in Nebraska. With every step, an Indian rises. With every other step, a buffalo falls.
I'm growing, too. My blisters heal, my muscles stretch, expand. My tribe dances behind me. At first they are no bigger than children. Then they begin to grow, larger than me, larger than the trees around us. The buffalo come to join us and their hooves shake the earth, knock all the white people from their beds, send their plates crashing to the floor.
We dance in circles growing larger and larger until we are standing on the shore, watching all the ships returning to Europe. All the white hands are waving good-bye and we continue to dance, dance until the ships fall off the horizon, dance until we are so tall and strong that the sun is nearly jealous. We dance that way.”
― The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”
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