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

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

Horace Axtell (Nez Perce)

That's pronounced "nez-purse," not "nez-pierce," and that's just one of the things to learn from this highly readable book about the Indian nation whose traditional lands are part of what is now Washington and Idaho. Axtell and Aragon weave the traditions of the people of Chief Joseph ("I will fight no more forever" ) with contemporary questions of religion and culture into a fabric that reflects the life of a single man, Nez Perce spiritual leader Axtell, whose grandmother was a Christian but whose great-aunt was a medicine woman. Although he has chosen the latter way, his respect for the spirit, however it shows itself, is palpable. Finding the path of the spirit entailed for him a quest whose way stations he documents with Aragon's help and which included the temptations of liquor, the ambiguous benefits of military service, the promptings of relatives who kept the old ways, and the call of the powwow trail. More than an autobiography, his story is the document of a people's struggle. - Patricia Monaghan

Confluence Press

Ward Churchill (Creek/Cherokee)
Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America. Here, he explores the history of holocaust and denial in this hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and continuing on into the present.
City Lights Publishers

Anna Moore Shaw (Pima)
"A most interesting book. . . . Her account of how the Pima Indians lived, their family structure, how they reared their children, courtship and marriage, how they treated their elders, their religious practices before the coming of a Christian missionary in 1870, and their accommodation with death are related in language that can be easily understood by the layman and, yet, provide information which can be used by the sociologist and anthropologist." —Journal of the West
University of Arizona Press

Howard Adams (Metis)

This book emanated from experiences of life and political struggle under colonization in Metis and other Aboriginal communities in Canada. The book provides a uniquely Aboriginal sociopolitical perspective on the effect of colonization on Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: it also presents a fresh outlook on de-colonization and contemporary Aboriginal life and culture.

Theytus

W.S. Penn (Nez Perce)
In this autobiographical work, which won the 1994 North American Prose Award, given by the University of Nebraska, Penn attempts to come to terms with his mixed heritage of Nez Perce, Osage, and Anglo descent. Penn traces three generations of his family who are trying to resolve their white and Native American ancestries. "Mixblood writers who do not want to be consumed by the power have to remember why they tell stories," Penn states. "They must remember that their identities come from their participation in the ongoingness of Time, of the generations, not from the here-and-nowness that makes the American Dream seem so dreamless." Although the author attempts to dovetail the white universe with the Native American world, he realizes that the two cultures cannot be blended. He concludes, however, that the two cultures can be bridged and finds answers to this quest in an analysis of Native American literature and in his relationship with his grandfather.
Bison Books

Joseph B. Oxendine (Lumbee)
“Neither the highly commercialized nature of professional sports today nor the more casual attitude prevailing in amateur activities captures the essence of Indian sport,” writes Joseph B. Oxendine. Through sport, Indians sought blessings from a higher spirit. Sport that evolved from religious rites retained a spiritual dimension, as seen in the attitude and manner of preparing and participating. In American Indian Sports Heritage, Oxendine discusses the history and importance in everyday life of ball games (especially lacrosse), running, archery, swimming, snow snake, hoop-and-pole, and games of chance.  Indians gained nationwide visibility as athletes in baseball and football; the teams at boarding schools such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania and the Haskell Institute in Kansas were especially famous. Oxendine describes the apex of Indian sports during the first three decades of the twentieth century and chronicles the decline since. He looks at the career of the legendary Jim Thorpe and provides brief biographies of other Indian athletes before and after 1930.
University of Nebraska Press

James Bruchac (Abenaki)

The inspiring true story of how one family's vision led to the creation of a nature preserve ...
Modern Curriculum Press