Sidner Larson (Gros Ventre)
"The ongoing tale of the mixed-blood Indian in this country can be convoluted and difficult. Sidner Larson's version of the paradox is honest and compelling, a coming of age story from the northern plains unlike anything else I have read." - Joy Harjo. Larson was a catch colt - a child born to an unmarried Gros Ventre woman. In this rapid and candid autobiography Larson describes his youth in Montana, in apartments and ranch houses. He lived at various times with his mother, his aunt, and his grandmother, but always without his father, whom he wondered about for years. Eventually Larson found his father, but he first found himself, and that took more time and trouble. "Catch Colt" is a romp through modern American Indian life, told by someone who knows both its thrills and its bruises.
University of Nebraska Press

Jacquelyn Kilpatrick (Cherokee)
Celluloid Indians is an accessible, insightful overview of Native American representation in film over the past century. Beginning with the birth of the movie industry, Jacquelyn Kilpatrick carefully traces changes in the cinematic depictions of Native peoples and identifies cultural and historical reasons for those changes. In the late twentieth century, Native Americans have been increasingly involved with writing and directing movies about themselves, and Kilpatrick places appropriate emphasis on the impact that Native American screenwriters and filmmakers have had on the industry. Celluloid Indians concludes with a valuable, in-depth look at influential and innovative Native Americans in today’s film industry.
University of Nebraska Press

Robert J. Conley (Cherokee)
Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people's history, and what it meanst to be Cherokee.
University of Oklahoma Press

John Stands in Timber (Cheyenne)
This classic work is an oral history of the Cheyenne Indians from legendary times to the early reservation years, a collaborative effort by the Cheyenne tribal historian, John Stands In Timber, and anthropologist Margot Liberty. Published in 1967, the book now has an updated bibliography and a new preface by Liberty, in which she shares her memories of Stands In Timber and describes the circumstances of the Cheyennes over the past thirty years.
Yale University Press

Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne)
This book draws on oral histories, interviews, and tribal records to document 111 years during which Cheyenne and Arapaho children were educated in White ways. Throughout the book, the feelings and experiences of the author and her great-grandmother, White Buffalo Girl, provide personal commentary on historical events. Chapter 1 provides background information on Cheyenne and Arapaho beliefs, symbolism, rituals, spirituality, traditional history, modern history from 1673 to 1867, and traditional educational practices. Chapter 2 describes the role of Protestant, Jesuit, and Franciscan missionaries in the early schooling of American Indians, as well as federal government strategies for solving the "Indian problem." In 1876, for economic reasons, the Cheyenne resigned themselves to placing their children in schools. Chapter 3 traces government policies after 1871, when formal education and forced acculturation were instituted. A sketch of daily life at an industrial education school is given as well as an account of the formation and practices of the Indian School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and other off-reservation boarding schools.
University Press of Colorado

Eugene Delorme (Santee Sioux)
An affecting story of one man's life of crime, Cardozo-Freeman lets the man, Eugene Delorme, tell it in his own words. His voice is at once contemplative, childlike, and angry. His childhood is nothing short of horrendous, as he and his family are ravaged by racism, poverty, and an alcoholic father. By the age of 10, Delorme is living the life of a criminal. His shoplifting and joyriding quickly escalate to breaking and entering and armed robbery. Prison is not simply in Delorme's future, after about the age of 13, it's essentially his life.
University of Nebraska Press

Clara Sue Kidwell (Choctaw)
This is a highly focused, richly detailed, scholarly account of the interactions of Choctaws, Christian missionaries, and government in the gradual removal of these Native Americans from their homeland. The dates in the title reflect the span of time from the arrival of the first missionaries to the year the Mississippi Choctaws' identity as a tribe was formally recognized by the government. Recommended for collections strong in history and Native American studies.
University of Oklahoma Press

Joseph Iron Eye Dudley (Yankton Sioux)
This compelling memoir covers the author's formative years (1948-1956) on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, where he lived with his dollar-poor but spirit-rich maternal grandparents in a small brown house on Choteau Creek. The product of a broken home, Dudley, now a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina, elevates his elderly grandparents, especially "grandma" Bessie Bourissau, to saintly status as they impart to him their beliefs, loves and fears. His strong sense of home and of his own spiritual awakening are striking as he describes a church service, a brother's homecoming, winter hardships, grandma's storytelling, chores around the house, medicine men and, finally, the inevitable illness, decline and death of his grandparents. Bison Books