Note – Not all the authors are Native American/First Nations.
In The Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen. Matthiessen is best known for his nature writing, but this book details the conflict between AIM and the Federal Government.
Edwin Barnhart has three Great Courses offerings that focus on the Indigenous populations of North And South America. They are quite good.
Part of the ReVisioning American History series, Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is a good place to start. There is a young reader’s edition available as well.
Another good introduction is North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue. It is part of the Oxford University Press Very Short Introduction series.
Andrés Résendes’ The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America is a must read.
Dina Whitaker-Gilio details the Indigenous Environmental Justice movement in her As Long as the Grass Grows.
Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee while dated is important.
While not focusing on Native America history in particular, James W. Lowen’s Lies Across America details what historic sites get wrong or use as propaganda.
Jennifer Niven tells a story of survival in her book Ada Blackjack. Blackjack was part of a scientific group in the far north. She survived.
Elizabeth A. Fenn’s Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People is a Pulitzer Prize winning account of the Mandan People who Lewis and Clark sheltered with.
David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon is an excellent read.
David W. Grua’s Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory is not just a history of the Massacre but also an examination of how US interactions with Native populations should be talked about.
Tony Horowitz’s A Voyage Long and Strange does address how US founding myths portray Native populations.
Charles Mann’s 1491 and 1493 are excellent books about early America.
American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook by Frances H. Kennedy. A good guide.
The University of Manitoba has a series of books – Critical Studies in Native History – whose purpose is to re-examine the traditional (i.e. colonial) view of Native Peoples.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treur focuses on Native America from 1890 onwards.
Surviving Canada edited by Kiera L. Ladner is about the First Nations/Indigenous population’s experience living under colonial rule for 150 years.
Horse Nations by Peter Mitchell is about the impact of horses on North American Indigenous populations.
Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers and Nathenial Philbrick’s The Last Stand are both highly recommended.
Sarah Deer’s The Beginning and End of Rape is an important read for any feminist.
Queen Liliuokalani’s account of the last years of Hawaii as an independent country is detailed in Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen.
The Earth Shall Weep by James Wilson is an important book.
While not focused solely on the Native American experience, The Lamar Series in Western History includes several Native American focused books.
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