Popular media depict miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original newspaper articles that describe in detail the murder, rape, and enslavement perpetrated by those who participated in the infamous gold rush. "It is a mercy to the Red Devils," wrote an editor of the Chico Courier, "to exterminate them." Newspaper accounts of the era depict both the barbarity and the nobility in human nature, but while some protested the inhumane treatment of Native Americans, they were not able to end the violence. Native Americans fought back, resisting the invasion, but they could not stop the tide of white miners and settlers. They became "strangers in a stolen land."
Michigan State University Press

Bruchac, Marge (Abenaki)
Catherine O'Neill Grace and Marge Bruchac (an adviser for the Wampanoag Indian Program at Plimoth Plantation) provide a well-researched, smooth account of the Wampanoag side of the Thanksgiving story. Arguing that "a number of today's assumptions about that event are based more on fiction than on fact," the authors explain a map that shows Wampanoag territory and the ways in which they acted as "caretakers" never owners of the land, and fascinating facts
National Geographic Children's Books

Historian, visual artist and poet rolled into one, Mihku Paul tells lively stories of Maliseet heroes throughout the millennia; vividly maps a territory encompassing old canoe routes and aunties’ work tables; and sings in every register from the mythic to the modern. This beautiful chapbook lights up the Native presence that has always permeated Maine and the Maritimes. Paul joins the ranks of other important Wabanaki poets--Alice Azure, Carol Bachofner, Joseph Bruchac, Carol Dana, and Cheryl Savageau—dedicated to preserving and updating their literary traditions. - Siobhan Senier, University of New Hampshire

Voices and visions of Ameircan indians, North American Natiuve writers and photographers...
Beyond Words Publishing

Edward Goodbird (Hidasta)
Based on the Life and Drawings of Edward Goodbird.  Fifty delightful drawings and five stories...Gives todays children a glimpse of the lives of Hidatsa children in the 19th century. The drawings and stories were recorded in the 1910s by anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Chief W.G. Grayson (Creek)
One can't help but come away from reading this autobiography of Chief G.W. Grayson with a deep sense of pride in character for this good and brave man. Chief Grayson's dignity, not only with regard to his Creek people, but especially in himself, from his exalted writing style to his modest, but declared nevertheless, mention of accomplishments is remarkable to behold.
University of Oklahoma Press

With an introduction by the editor and a map of Alaska Native Peoples. This "collection of twenty myths is an excellent introduction into the world of southeast Alaska Native cultures." (--Dr. Alexandr Vaschenko) John Smelcer has dedicated his professional life to recording the traditionally oral tales of Alaskan Native peoples; his latest book contains narrative myths and legends from the Eyak, Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian Peoples of Southeast Alaska. Thoroughly enchanting as literature and crucially important, along with THE RAVEN AND THE TOTEM and ALASKA NATIVE ORAL NARRATIVE LITERATURE by the same editor, as a reference resource, A CYCLE OF MYTHS "keenly captures the mystical world of Alaska Native legend and lore--a world in which the supernatural is natural."
"No collection of Native American mythology is complete without this book. The most comprehensive collection in print." -- Alaska Magazine
Salmon Run Press

A collection by North American Indian women demonstrating the vibrancy and breadth of Native women's writing by Beth Brant.
Firebrand Books

Darren Bonaparte (Mohawk)
More books have been written about the “Lily of the Mohawks” than any other aboriginal woman who has ever lived, but none have ever told her story from the perspective of her own nation.  Mohawk author Darren Bonaparte sets out to do just that by presenting a bold new biography that reestablishes her place in the greater context of Kanien’kehá:ka history and culture. He brings a critical eye to the documents written by the priests who knew her, and asserts that it was much more than religion and the fur trade that drew so many of her people from their Mohawk Valley homeland to the banks of the St. Lawrence River more than three centuries ago. Illustrations by R. Kakwirakeron Montour