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Native American Heritage

Native American Heritage

  • #NotYourPrincess: voices of Native American women. Y 970.1 NOT
  • An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States. Kyle T. Mays. 973.0496 MAY
  • “All the real Indians died off”: and 20 other myths about Native Americans. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Dina Gilio-Whitaker. 970.004 DUN
  • American Indian cooking before 1500. Mary Gunderson. 641.592 GUN, J 641.509 GUN
  • American Indian food. Linda Murray Berzok. 394.12 BER
  • American Indians and the law. N. Bruce Duthu. 970.5 DUT
  • Another country: journeying toward the Cherokee Mountains. Christopher Camuto. 917.688 CAM
  • Arts of diplomacy: Lewis and Clark’s Indian collection. Castle McLaughlin. 978 MACL
  • Atlas of the North American Indian. Carl Waldman. 970.1 WAL
  • Before Columbus: the Americas of 1491. Charles C. Mann. Y 970.011 MAN
  • Black Hawk: the battle for the heart of America. Kerry A. Trask. 973.56 TRA
  • Black snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and environmental justice. Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys. 978.488 TOD
  • Blood and thunder: an epic of the American West. Hampton Sides. 978.02 SID
  • Bows & arrows of the native Americans: a complete step-by-step guide to wooden bows, sinew-backed bows, composite bows, strings, arrows & quivers. Jim Hamm. 688.79 HAM
  • Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West. Dee Brown. 970.5 BRO, CD 970.5 BRO, DVD Drama B
  • Cahokia: ancient America’s great city on the Mississippi. Timothy R. Pauketat. 977.386 PAU
  • Canyon dreams: a basketball season on the Navajo Nation. Michael Powell. 796.323 POW
  • The captured: the true story of abduction by Indians on the Texas frontier. Scott Zesch. 976.4 ZES, CD 976.4 ZES
  • Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, and the forgotten story of football’s greatest battle. Lars Anderson. 796.332 AND
  • Chasing rainbows: collecting American Indian trade & camp blankets. Barry Friedman. 677.626 FRI
  • The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green. 970.3 PER
  • Conflict resolution for holy beings: poems. Joy Harjo. 811.54 HAR
  • Coyote warrior: one man, three tribes, and the trial that forged a nation. Paul VanDevelder. 323.1197 VAN
  • The day the world ended at Little Bighorn: a Lakota history. Joseph M. Marshall III. 970.5 MAR
  • The death of Sitting Bear: new and selected poems. N. Scott Momaday. 811.54 MOM
  • The divided ground: Indians, settlers, and the northern borderland of the American Revolution. Alan Taylor. 974.7 TAY
  • Driven West: Andrew Jackson and the trail of tears to the Civil War. A.J. Langguth. 973.56 LAN
  • Edward S. Curtis: coming to light. Anne Makepeace. 970.1 MAK
  • Empire of the summer moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. S.C. Gwynne. 970.3 GWY, CD 970.3 GWY
  • Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians970.4 ENC
  • Exploring ancient native America: an archaeo-logical guide. David Hurst Thomas. 970.01 THO
  • The first North Americans: an archaeological journey. Brian Fagan. 970.01 FAG
  • 500 nations: an illustrated history of North American Indians. Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. 970.1 JOS
  • Foods of the Americas: native recipes and traditions. Fernando & Marlene Divina. 641.592 DIV
  • A forest of time: American Indian ways of history. Peter Nabokov. 970.1 NAB
  • 1491: new revelations of the Americas before Columbus. Charles C. Mann. 970.011 MAN
  • Frank Bennett Fiske: the Standing Rock portraits. 779.2 FRA
  • God, war, and Providence: the epic struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England. James A. Warren. 974.502 WAR
  • The great circle: a history of the First Nations. Neil Philip. Y 973.0497 PHI
  • Great Lakes Indians: a pictorial guide. William J. Kubiak. 970.47 KUB
  • The heathen school: a story of hope and betrayal in the age of the early Republic. John Demos. 371.829 DEM
  • Highway of Tears: a true story of racism, indifference and the pursuit of justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Jessica McDiarmid. 362.8808 MACD
  • A history of fashion and costume. Early America. Paige Weber. 391 WEB
  • In the hands of the Great Spirit: the 20,000-year history of American Indians. Jake Page. 970.1 PAG
  • In the shadow of Wounded Knee: the untold final chapter of the Indian Wars. Roger L. Di Silvestro. 973.86 DIS
  • Indian mounds of the middle Ohio Valley. Susan L. Woodward and Jerry N. McDonald. 917.71 WOO
  • Indian names in Indiana. Alan McPherson. Ind. Coll. 917.72 MACP
  • Inuit art: a history. Richard Crandall. 704.0397 CRA
  • IRL. Tommy Pico. 811.6 PIC
  • The killing of Crazy Horse. Thomas Powers. 970.3 POW
  • Lakota America: a new history of indigenous power. Pekka Hämäläinen. 970.3 HAM
  • Lakota noon: the Indian narrative of Custer’s defeat. Gregory F. Michno. 973.82 MIC
  • Land of the spotted eagle. Luther Standing Bear. 970.3 STA
  • The last Indian war: the Nez Perce story. Elliott West. 970.5 WES
  • The last stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Nathaniel Philbrick. 973.82 PHI
  • Lewis and Clark through Indian eyes978 LEW
  • Little big bully. Heid E. Erdrich. 811.54 ERD
  • Living nations, living words: an anthology of first peoples poetry. 811.008 LIV
  • Looks like daylight: voices of indigenous kidsY 970.1 LOO
  • The lost world of the Old Ones: discoveries in the ancient Southwest. David Roberts. 978.01 ROB
  • Love and hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the heart of a new nation. David A. Price. 975.542 PRI
  • Making the white man’s Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood movies. Angela Aleiss. 791.436 ALE
  • Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war. Nathaniel Philbrick. 974.402 PHI, Large Type 974.402 PHI, CD 974.402 PHI
  • The Miami Indians of Indiana: a persistent people, 1654-1994. Stewart Rafert. Ind. Coll. 970.4 RAF
  • My people the Sioux. Luther Standing Bear. 970.3 STA
  • Native American crafts and skills: a fully illustrated guide to wilderness living and survival. David Montgomery. 745.089 MON
  • Native American history for dummies. Dorothy Lippert, Stephen J. Spignesi. 970.1 LIP
  • Native American place names of Indiana. Michael McCafferty. Ind. Coll. 977.2 MACC
  • Native American testimony: a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-2000970.5 NAT
  • Native Americans of the Southwest: the serious traveler’s introduction to peoples and places. Zdenek and Joy M. Salzmann. 917.904 SAL
  • Native North American art. Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips. 709.01 BER
  • New poets of Native nations. 811.6 NEW
  • Nez Perce country. Alvin M. Josephy Jr. 970.3 JOS
  • North American Indian jewelry and adornment: from prehistory to the present. Lois Sherr Dubin. 739.27 DUB
  • Of Earth and elders: visions and voices from native America970.1 CHA
  • On the rez. Ian Frazier. 978 FRA
  • Our history is the future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of indigenous resistance. Nick Estes. 978.004 EST
  • Our savage neighbors: how Indian war transformed early America. Peter Silver. 973.2 SIL
  • Paying the land. Joe Sacco. Graphic 971.2 SAC
  • Postcolonial love poem. Natalie Diaz. 811.6 DIA
  • Pottery by American Indian women: the legacy of generations. Susan Peterson. 738 PET
  • The radiant lives of animals. Linda Hogan. 811.54 HOG
  • The real all Americans: the team that changed a game, a people, a nation. Sally Jenkins. 796.332 JEN
  • Saga of the Sioux: an adaptation from Dee Brown’s Bury my heart at Wounded KneeY 970.3 BRO
  • The scratch of a pen: 1763 and the transformation of North America. Colin G. Calloway. 973.26 CAL
  • Seeing America: native artists of North America. 704.0397 SEE
  • The Shawnees and the war for America. Colin G. Calloway. 970.3 CAL
  • Shedding skins: four Sioux poets811 SHE
  • Skywalkers: Mohawk ironworkers build the city. David Weitzman. Y 720.483 WEI
  • A terrible glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn– the last great battle of the American West. James Donovan. 973.82 DON
  • The three-cornered war: the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West. Megan Kate Nelson. 978.02 NEL
  • Thunder in the mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War. Daniel J. Sharfstein. 970.5 SHA
  • The tipi: traditional Native American shelter. Adolf Hungrywolf. 970.004 HUN
  • Tracks that speak: the legacy of native American words in North American culture. Charles L. Cutler. 422 CUT
  • Trail to Wounded Knee: the last stand of the Plains Indians, 1860-1890. Herman J. Viola. 970.5 VIO
  • Trails of tears, paths of beauty. Joseph Bruchac. 970.3 BRU
  • Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School football team. Steve Sheinkin. Y 796.332 SHE
  • The unquiet grave: the FBI and the struggle for the soul of Indian country. Steve Hendricks. 323.1197 HEN
  • The war that made America: a short history of the French and Indian War. Fred Anderson. 973.26 AND
  • Warriors in uniform. Herman J. Viola. 355.009 VIO
  • We had a little real estate problem: the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy. Kliph Nesteroff. 792.7028 NES
  • When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through: a Norton anthology of Native nations poetry. 811.008 WHE
  • When the rain sings: poems by young Native Americans811.008 WHE
  • Whereas. Layli Long Soldier. 811.6 LON
  • The wrath of Cochise. Terry Mort. 970.5 MOR
  • Yellow Bird: oil, murder, and a woman’s search for justice in Indian country. Sierra Crane Murdoch. 364.1523 MUR
  • Yellow dirt: an American story of a poisoned land and a people betrayed. Judy Pasternak. 979.1 PAS
  • Yellowman; My red hand, my black hand: two plays. Dael Orlandersmith. 812 ORL

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

  • Ada Blackjack: a true story of survival in the Arctic. Jennifer Niven. B Blackjack
  • All American: the rise and fall of Jim Thorpe. Bill Crawford. B Thorpe
  • Apple: skin to the core: a memoir in words and pictures. Eric Gansworth. Y 813.54 GAN
  • Black Elk speaks: being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux970.3 BLA
  • A brave and cunning prince: the great chief Opechancanough and the war for America. James Horn. 975.5004 HOR
  • Chief Joseph: guardian of the people. Candy Moulton. Y 970.3 MOU
  • Crazy Horse: a Lakota life. Kingsley M. Bray. B Crazy Horse
  • Geronimo’s bones: a memoir of my brother and me. Nasdijj. B Nasdijj
  • The girl who sang to the buffalo: a child, an elder, and the light from an ancient sky. Kent Nerburn. 970.49 NER
  • Heart berries: a memoir. Terese Marie Mailhot. 362.1968 MAI
  • How the world moves: the odyssey of an American Indian family. Peter Nabokov. 970.1 NAB
  • Lakota portraits: lives of the legendary plains people. Joseph Agonito. 970.3 AGO
  • A line of driftwood: the Ada Blackjack story. Diane Glancy. 811.54 GLA
  • Native American son: the life and sporting legend of Jim Thorpe. Kate Buford. B Thorpe
  • Neither wolf nor dog: on forgotten roads with an Indian elder. Kent Nerburn. 978.004 NER
  • Notable American Indians: Indiana & adjacent states. Alan J. McPherson, James Carr. Ind. Coll. 970.47 MACP
  • Notable native people: 50 indigenous leaders, dreamers, and changemakers from past and present. Adrienne Keene. 920.0092 KEE
  • Poet warrior: a memoir. Joy Harjo. B Harjo
  • Prison writings: my life is my sundance. Leonard Peltier. B Peltier
  • Rez life: an Indian’s journey through reservation life. David Treuer. 323.1197 TRE
  • The scalpel and the silver bear. Lori Arviso Alvord. B Alvord
  • Stolen life: [the journey] of a Cree woman. Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson. B Johnson
  • Tecumseh: a life. John Sugden. B Tecumseh
  • Where courage is like a wild horse: the world of an Indian orphanage. Sharon Skolnick. B Skolnick
  • The woman who watches over the world: a native memoir. Linda Hogan. B Hogan

FICTION

  • Black Hills. Dan Simmons. Fic SIM
  • Bone walker: an Anasazi mystery. Kathleen O’Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear. Fic GEA
  • Caleb’s crossing. Geraldine Brooks. Fic BRO
  • Cherokee America. Margaret Verble. Fic VER
  • The Cherokee dragon: a novel of the real people. Robert J. Conley. Fic CON
  • Coming of the storm. W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Fic GEA
  • Consumption. Kevin Patterson. Fic PAT
  • The dawn country: a people of the longhouse novel. Kathleen O’Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear. Fic GEA
  • Dead silver. Neil McMahon. Fic MACM
  • Fire the sky. W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Fic GEA
  • Flight. Sherman Alexie. Fic ALE
  • The heartsong of Charging Elk. James Welch. Fic WEL
  • Indian village: Papakeechie, Wawasee, Keelsonau. Karl Keiper. Ind. Coll. Fic KEI
  • It dreams in me. Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Fic GEA
  • Land of echoes: a Cree Black novel. Daniel Hecht. Fic HEC, CD Fic HEC
  • The last matriarch. Sharman Russell. Fic RUS
  • Lay the mountains low: the flight of the Nez Perce from Idaho and the Battle of the Big Hole, August 9-10, 1877. Terry C. Johnston. Fic JOH
  • Motorcycles & sweetgrass. Drew Hayden Taylor. Fic TAY
  • The painted drum. Louise Erdrich. Fic ERD, CD
  • People of the Longhouse. W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Fic GEA
  • People of the nightland. W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Fic GEA
  • People of the thunder. W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Fic GEA
  • People of the weeping eye. W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O’Neal Gear. Fic GEA
  • Perma Red. Debra Magpie Earling. Fic EAR
  • The plague of doves. Louise Erdrich. Fic ERD, Large Type Fic ERD, CD Fic ERD
  • Power. Linda Hogan. Fic HOG
  • Prudence. David Treuer. Fic TRE, Large Type Fic TRE
  • Pushing the bear: after the Trail of Tears. Diane Glancy. Fic GLA
  • Returning to earth. Jim Harrison. Fic HAR, CD Fic HAR
  • A river out of Eden. John Hockenberry. Fic HOC
  • Runner. Thomas Perry. Fic PER
  • The sacred white turkey. Frances Washburn. Fic WAS
  • The search for Joyful. Benedict & Nancy Freedman. Fic FRE
  • Serafina’s stories. Rudolfo Anaya. Fic ANA
  • Shadow tag. Louise Erdrich. Fic ERD
  • Shadows in the cave. Caleb Fox. Sci. Fic FOX
  • A sky without stars. Linda S. Clare. Rel. Fic CLA
  • Spirit sickness. Kirk Mitchell. Fic MIT
  • Take us to your chief: and other stories. Drew Hayden Taylor. Sci. Fic TAY
  • Thirteen moons. Charles Frazier. Fic FRA, CD Fic FRA
  • A thousand voices. Lisa Wingate. Fic WIN
  • The vengeance of mothers: the journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill. Jim Fergus. Fic FER
  • Walking the clouds: an anthology of indigenous science fictionSci. Fic WAL
  • Warrior woman: a novel: based on the life of Nonhelema, Shawnee woman chief. Dark Rain & James Alexander Thom. Fic THO
  • Zadayi Red. Caleb Fox. Sci. Fic FOX

MYSTERIES

  • Black thunder: an Ella Clah novel. Aimee & David Thurlo. Mystery THU
  • Blood memory. Margaret Coel. Mystery COE
  • Coyote’s wife: an Ella Clah novel. Aimee Thurlo & David Thurlo. Mystery THU
  • Day of the Dead. J.A. Jance. Mystery JAN
  • A dead man’s tale. James D. Doss. Mystery DOS
  • Earthway. Aimee & David Thurlo. Mystery THU
  • Eye of the raven. Eliot Pattison. Mystery PAT
  • The girl with braided hair. Margaret Coel. Mystery COE
  • Indian pipes. Cynthia Riggs. Mystery RIG
  • Killing Custer. Margaret Coel. Mystery COE
  • Never-ending-snake. Aimee & David Thurlo. Mystery THU
  • Night of the white buffalo. Margaret Coel. Mystery COE
  • The shape shifter. Tony Hillerman. Mystery HIL, CD Fic HIL
  • The silent spirit. Margaret Coel. Mystery COE
  • Snake dreams. James D. Doss. Mystery DOS
  • The spider’s web. Margaret Coel. Mystery COE
  • Three sisters. James D. Doss. Mystery DOS
  • Thunderbird: a Ben Pecos mystery. Susan Slater. Mystery SLA
  • Turquoise girl: an Ella Clah novel. Aimee & David Thurlo. Mystery THU
  • White heat. M.J. McGrath. Mystery MACG
  • The widow’s revenge. James D. Doss. Mystery DOS
  • Winter’s child. Margaret Coel. Mystery COE

YOUNG ADULT FICTION

  • The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian. Sherman Alexie. Y Fic ALE, Large Type Fic ALE, Y AUDIO CD ALE
  • Code Talker: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two. Joseph Bruchac. Y Fic BRU
  • Crossing the panther’s path. Elizabeth Alder. Large Type Fic ALD
  • The game of silence. Louise Erdrich. Large Type Fic ERD
  • Horse of seven moons. Karen Taschek. Y Fic TAS
  • House of purple cedar. Tim Tingle. Y Fic TIN
  • Killer of enemies. Joseph Bruchac. Y Fic BRU
  • The lesser blessed. Richard Van Camp. Y Fic VAN
  • Marrow thieves. Cherie Dimaline. Y Fic DIM
  • Minik’s story. Jennifer Owings Dewey. Y Fic DEW
  • Touching Spirit Bear. Ben Mikaelsen. Y Fic MIK
  • Trail of the dead. Joseph Bruchac. Y Fic BRU
  • Trickster: Native American tales: a graphic collectionY 741.5 TRI
  • The trap. John Smelcer. Y Fic SME

REFERENCE

  • Early peoples of IndianaInd. Coll. R 970.4 EAR
  • Encyclopedia of American Indian historyR 970.1 ENC
  • Encyclopedia of Indiana Indians: tribes, nations and people of the woodlands areasInd. Coll. R 970.47 ENC
  • Encyclopedia of Native American tribes. Carl Waldman. R 970.3 WAL
  • The Native Americans: the indigenous people of North AmericaR 970.1 NAT

SPANISH LANGUAGE / EN ESPAÑOL

  • Breve historia de los indios norteamericanos. Gregorio Doval. Spanish Lang. 970.1 DOV
  • Enfoque: Indigenas de NorteamericaVIDEO Spanish Lang.
  • Baby Rattlesnake = Viborita de cascabel. Te Ata. Sp. Lang. E 398.24 ATA
  • Sacagawea. Lise Erdrich. Sp Lang JB Sacagawea