Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux)
Provides biographical sketches of 15 great Indian leaders, most Sioux; tracing their historical importance to both white and Native peoples. While students may turn to this for supplemental reading, many an adult will find this a fine refresher course on key Native leaders. "[Eastman's] close association with [these heroes] affords a personal note of great value." — Nation.
Dover Publications

Mark Monroe (Sioux)
Narrated with intense honesty, this autobiography of Mark Monroe, a Lakota Sioux Indian, is a story of courage, faith, and determination, and a rare opportunity to witness the life of a contemporary American Indian. Despite lifelong confrontations with violence, racism, and personal hardship—alcoholism, family deaths, illness, poverty, and unemployment—Mark Monroe has worked to instill ethnic pride in his fellow Indians.
Temple University Press

Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux)
Autobiographical account of how Eastman became a young Indian scout reveals secrets of the Sioux: how to read footprints, hunt with a slingshot and bow and arrow, trap and fish, make canoe, build a campsite, much more. Also valuable information on the language of feathers, weather wisdom, storytelling, more. 27 illustrations.
Dover Publications

Doug George-Kanentiio (Mohawk)
This book offers fascinating perspectives on the life, traditions, and current affairs of the peoples of the Iroquois Confederacy. The author is a Mohawk who is actively involved in issues affecting the Confederacy and has been writing about developments in Indian Country for the past decade.
Clear Light Publishers

Margaret Sam-Cromarty (Cree)
The poems in this resource are simply written, eloquent sketches of Cree life at James Bay that focus on harmony with the environment and on adjusting to changing ways of living.
Waapoone Pub & Promotions

Greg Sarris (Coast Miwok/Pomo)
This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. His essays cover a range of topics that include orality, art, literary criticism, and pedagogy, and demonstrate that people can see more than just "what things seem to be." Throughout, he asks: How can we read across cultures so as to encourage communication rather than to close it down?
Sarris maintains that cultural practices can be understood only in their living, changing contexts. Central to his approach is an understanding of storytelling, a practice that embodies all the indeterminateness, structural looseness, multivalence, and richness of culture itself. He describes encounters between his Indian aunts and Euro-American students and the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom; he brings the reports of earlier ethnographers out of museums into the light of contemporary literary and anthropological theory.
University of California Press

James Welch (Blackfeet)
Novelist Welch and documentary filmmaker Stekler probe the long-term repercussions that victory over Custer had for Native Americans, in a companion book to their PBS documentary Last Stand at Little Bighorn.
Penguin

LaDonna Harris (Comanche)
This book is the unforgettable story of a Comanche woman who has become one of the most influential, inspired, and determined Native Americans in politics. LaDonna Harris was born on a Comanche allotment in southern Oklahoma in the 1930s. From her earliest years, she was immersed in a world of resistance, reform, and political action. As the wife of Senator Fred R. Harris, LaDonna was actively involved in political advising, campaigning, and networking.
University of Nebraska Press

Mary Crow Dog (Lakota)
In the book Lakota Woman, Mary Crow Dog (nee. Brave Bird) described the difficulties and hardships she was forced to endure as a Native American woman growing up on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. It traces her life from it start in 1953, growing up in a fatherless one-room cabin which did not contain plumbing or electricity, to her discovery of purpose in her life with eventual involvement in the American Indian Movement.
HarperPerennial

Bertha Little Coyote (Cheyenne)
Bertha Little Coyote is a pistol. She is predictably outspoken and courageous, and her opinions are, to many people's chagrin, piercingly correct in most situations. In this memoir and the accompanying compact disc, she shows herself also as a deeply tender-hearted, expressive musician who is fiercely committed to people -- especially Cheyenne people. Here are Bertha Little Coyote's songs and memories of government school, old-time Cheyenne life, fighting white boys, singing around the drum, dancing with the war mothers, being baptized in the lake, and dreaming important dreams.
University of Oklahoma Press