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Indigenous America Reader

Description: A list of books by or about indigenous people.

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1

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

13,230 members

823 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: SqueakyChu, ahef1963, steller0707, nfwriter60, rowendelle

2

by Tommy Orange

6,054 members

243 reviews

4

4 Members: kjgormley, steller0707, nfwriter60, rowendelle

3

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

8,820 members

360 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aspirit, steller0707, rowendelle

4

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich

4,613 members

228 reviews

4

3 Members: gypsysmom, steller0707, nfwriter60

5

Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story

by Kevin Noble Maillard

1,575 members

119 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: cej1027, aspirit, steller0707

6

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

6,916 members

164 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: gypsysmom, rowendelle

7

by Louise Erdrich

4,382 members

82 reviews

3.9

2 Members: gypsysmom, steller0707

8

by Leslie Marmon Silko

4,090 members

68 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, steller0707

9

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

by Sherman Alexie

1,415 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, nfwriter60

10

Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science

by Kim TallBear

124 members

1 review

½ 4.5

2 Members: aspirit, rowendelle

11

The Dance of Person and Place: One Interpretation of American Indian Philosophy

by Thomas M. Norton-Smith

15 members

1 review

5

2 Members: Muscogulus, rowendelle

12

House Made of Dawn

by N. Scott Momaday

2,258 members

40 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: steller0707

13

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

2,122 members

65 reviews

4.1

Member: rowendelle

14

Trail of Lightning

by Rebecca Roanhorse

1,998 members

118 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

15

The Marrow Thieves

by Cherie Dimaline

1,613 members

53 reviews

4

Member: rowendelle

16

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

1,280 members

13 reviews

4

Member: rowendelle

17

God Is Red: A Native View of Religion

by Jr. Vine Deloria

1,142 members

14 reviews

4

Member: rowendelle

18

Heart Berries: A Memoir

by Terese Marie Mailhot

1,041 members

63 reviews

3.9

Member: steller0707

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1,029 members

16 reviews

4

Member: rowendelle

20

by Stephen Graham Jones

803 members

35 reviews

4

Member: rowendelle

21

Winter in the Blood

793 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: steller0707

22

Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence

by T. C. McLuhan

782 members

3 reviews

4

Member: aspirit

23

The Grass Dancer

756 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: rowendelle

24

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

694 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: rowendelle

25

by Katherena Vermette

666 members

41 reviews

4.1

Member: gypsysmom

26

Son of a Trickster

by Eden Robinson

643 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: gypsysmom

27

Jonny Appleseed

by Joshua Whitehead

614 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: gypsysmom

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by Richard Wagamese

599 members

51 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: gypsysmom

29

555 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: rowendelle

30

Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

by Tanya Talaga

513 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: gypsysmom

31

Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life

by David Treuer

449 members

16 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: rowendelle

32

Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

by Cynthia Leitich Smith

445 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: aspirit

33

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

by Sierra Crane Murdoch

434 members

18 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

34

This Place: 150 Years Retold

by Alicia Elliott

365 members

20 reviews

4.2

Member: aspirit

35

Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

by Anton Treuer

331 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: aspirit

36

Rain Is Not My Indian Name

by Cynthia Leitich Smith

324 members

12 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: rowendelle

37

Where the Dead Sit Talking

by Brandon Hobson

319 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: rowendelle

38

Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders

by Harvey Arden

274 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: aspirit

39

by Brenda J. Child

263 members

30 reviews

3.8

Member: rowendelle

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by Louise Erdrich

252 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: rowendelle

41

by Larry Colton

245 members

1 review

4

Member: rowendelle

42

Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection, Volume 1

by Hope Nicholson

214 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: aspirit

43

The Water Walker

by Joanne Robertson

207 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: rowendelle

44

Shadows Cast by Stars

by Catherine Knutsson

203 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: rowendelle

45

Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology

196 members

½ 3.7

Member: aspirit

46

The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men

by Jr. Vine Deloria

195 members

1 review

½ 4.6

Member: aspirit

47

Islands of Decolonial Love

by Leanne Simpson

195 members

9 reviews

4.2

Member: rowendelle

48

Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America

183 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: Muscogulus

49

The Good Luck Cat

174 members

17 reviews

3.9

Member: cej1027

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A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women

165 members

3.8

Member: aspirit

51

Spirit of the Harvest: North American Indian Cooking

161 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: aspirit

52

Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America

157 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: aspirit

53

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder

by Ma-Nee Chacaby

156 members

5 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: gypsysmom

54

Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People

by William L. Iggiagruk Hensley

155 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aspirit

55

Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)

by Gregory Smithers

143 members

1 review

4

Member: aspirit

56

The Mitsitam Café Cookbook: Recipes from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

by Richard Hetzler

136 members

1 review

3.8

Member: rowendelle

57

Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality

by Sue-Ellen Jacobs

135 members

½ 4.3

Member: aspirit

58

Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature

by Qwo-Li Driskill

130 members

3 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: aspirit

59

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

by Daniel Heath Justice

125 members

2 reviews

4.8

Member: rowendelle

60

Sanaaq : an Inuit novel

by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk

122 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: rowendelle

61

Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature

by Qwo-Li Driskill

116 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: aspirit

62

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers: Poems (National Poetry Series)

98 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: aspirit

63

The Death of Bernadette Lefthand

by Ronald B. Querry

96 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: rowendelle

64

Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir

by Ernestine Hayes

90 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aspirit

65

85 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: rowendelle

66

Cogewea, The Half Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range

by Mourning Dove

82 members

2.8

Member: rowendelle

67

A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged (Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation)

by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

81 members

1 review

4.8

Member: rowendelle

68

80 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: rowendelle

69

Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory

by Qwo-Li Driskill

80 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: aspirit

70

The Powwow Highway (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)

by David O'Brien Seals

80 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: rowendelle

71

Drowning in Fire

by Craig S. Womack

68 members

½ 4.3

Member: rowendelle

72

The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge

by Donald Fixico

53 members

4

Member: aspirit

73

The Sockeye Mother

by Brett D. Huson

52 members

4 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: rowendelle

74

Who Speaks for Wolf: A Native American Learning Story

by Paula Underwood

50 members

4

Member: rowendelle

75

Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel

50 members

1 review

Member: rowendelle

76

Where People Feast: An Indigenous People's Cookbook

39 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: rowendelle

77

The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The World Readers)

by Maria Sháa Tláa Williams

30 members

Member: aspirit

78

Why Storms Are Named after People and Bullets Remain Nameless: Poems

by Tanaya Winder

19 members

1 review

5

Member: rowendelle

79

by Storme Webber

6 members

5

Member: aspirit

80

Two-Spirits Belong Here: An Anthology of works by Two-Spirit Transgender, Intersex, & Gender Non-Conforming Native American Artists

by Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul

6 members

Member: aspirit

81

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival

by Velma Wallis

1,746 members

67 reviews

3.9

82

Almanac of the Dead

by Leslie Marmon Silko

1,058 members

16 reviews

3.9

83

The Way to Rainy Mountain

by N. Scott Momaday

1,002 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

84

We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga

by Traci Sorell

961 members

54 reviews

½ 4.3

85

by Cynthia Leitich Smith

797 members

122 reviews

4.2

86

Storm of Locusts

by Rebecca Roanhorse

701 members

39 reviews

4

87

How I Became A Ghost

678 members

53 reviews

½ 4.4

88

If I Ever Get Out of Here

by Eric Gansworth

581 members

28 reviews

4

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by Layli Long Soldier

479 members

8 reviews

4.1

90

Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians

447 members

5 reviews

3.9

91

Gardens in the Dunes

by Leslie Marmon Silko

432 members

4 reviews

3.8

92

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

by Alicia Elliott

429 members

11 reviews

½ 4.3

93

I Can Make This Promise

by Christine Day

404 members

11 reviews

4.1

94

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

398 members

6 reviews

4.2

95

The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen

by Sean Sherman

396 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

96

395 members

7 reviews

3.8

97

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women

by Lisa Charleyboy

394 members

24 reviews

½ 4.3

98

Hiawatha and the Peacemaker

by Robbie Robertson

369 members

16 reviews

4.1

99

I Am Not a Number

by Dr. Jenny Kay Dupuis

361 members

15 reviews

½ 4.5

100

Hearts Unbroken

by Cynthia Leitich Smith

329 members

26 reviews

½ 3.6

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