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6 months ago with 14 notes

Happy Native American Heritage month -Day 15!

We’ve finally made it halfway! Today is a special ‘thank you’ post. As a thank you, here is a list of my absolute favorite books on Native history. These books are not only highly informational, they don’t sugar coat the history like your kindergarten teacher did! So without further ado, please enjoy!

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee*
• Farewell, My Nation
• American Holocaust*
• The Zuni Man-Woman
• Boarding School Blues
• Education for Extinction
• Native American Testimony
• Pueblo Indians
• 500 Nations
• 1491
• The Captured

Alaska Natives

• Take My Land, Take My Heart

Anasazi

• In Search of the Old Ones 

Apache

• Shadows at Dawn
• Massacre at Camp Grant

Arapaho

• The Arapahoes, Our People

Blackfoot

• The Blackfeet
• The Ways of My Grandmothers

California Indians

• Ishi in Two Worlds*
• When the Great Spirit Died
• The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island
• The Heart is Fire
• Murder State

Cherokee

• The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
• Mankiller

Cheyenne

• Sand Creek*
• Black Kettle
• Tell Them We Are Going Home 

Comanche

• Empire of the Summer Moon*
• Comanches
• Ride the Wind

Crow

• From the Heart of the Crow Country

Diné

• The Long Walk
• Code Talker

Hopi

• Book of the Hopi

Kiowa

• The Way To Rainy Mountain 

Lakota/Sioux

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee* (This is listed twice for a reason. READ IT)
• The Journey of Crazy Horse
• Keeping Heart on Pine Ridge
• The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge
• Prison Writings
• Where White Men Fear to Tread

Nez Perce

• The Last Indian War*
• Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce*
• I Will Fight No More Forever

Ojibwa

• Ojibwa Warrior

I will update this post whenever I come across a book I have read and enjoyed. All books with a * means it is a HIGHLY recommended read. If anything you should read those first!