Native American

Non Fiction

1.	Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century 
DB 42864
Bordewich, Fergus M. 
Challenges stereotypes of Native Americans as noble savages and eternal victims. The author believes that across the country, Native Americans are asserting tribal sovereignty and property rights, redefining Indian justice and education, and shaping their own destinies in ways that sometimes conflict with the expectations of others.

2.	The colour of Resistance: A Contemporary Collection of Writing By Aboriginal Women 
DBC 19696
Fife, Connie. 
A powerful collection of works in response to 500 years of colonization, and the worldwide celebrations marking the anniversary of European invasion. A contemporary collection of writing by aboriginal women. Contributors include Chrystos, Beth Brant, Joy Harjo and Lee Maracle. 

3.	Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI 
DB 87767
Grann, David. 
An examination of the 1920s murders of wealthy Osage Indian Nation members in Oklahoma. When the newly-formed FBI bungled the investigation, young Director Hoover turned to ex-Texas Ranger Tom White, who put together an undercover team, including one of the only American Indian agents in the Bureau.

4.	Dancing on the Rim of the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Northwest Native American Writing 
DBC 13907
Lerner, Andrea. 
"An Anthology of Contemporary Northwest Native American Writing" is the subtitle of this work. It is a collection of poems, short stories, and essays, written during the 1980's and 1990's by native American Indian writers from Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, Idaho, and western Montana. For high school and adult readers.

5.	In the Spirit of Crazy Horse 
DB 19138
Matthiessen, Peter. 
Impassioned account supports the American Indian movement's opposition to U.S. government interference in reservation affairs. Matthiessen describes the confrontation between FBI agents and Dakota Indians at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975, a violent encounter that ended in three deaths and led to murder charges against four Indians. 

6.	From the Heart of the Crow country: The Crow Indians' Own Stories 
DBC 13861
Medicine Crow, Joseph. 
Born in Lodge Grass, Montana in 1913 and raised by old grandparents who knew life before reservations days, Joe Medicine Crow acquired training in Indian ways and customs. He combines oral tradition and the written record to compile a history of the Northern Plains tribes that is unique in the American Indian community. 

7.	Custer's Fall: The Native American Side of the Story 
DBC 13851 
Miller, David Humphreys. 
This is the story of the famous Battle of the Little Big Horn as told by the only ones who survived to recount it--the Indians. Based on the oral testimony of seventy-two Native American eyewitnesses, the story reconstructs the events of a battle that has become legend.

8.	We Had A little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy 
DB 102627
Nesteroff, Kliph 
A comedy historian discusses the influence of Native Americans on comedy despite a general lack of representation in the entertainment industry. He details the role of Native Americans in wild west shows in the 1880s, profiles contemporary comedians, and features dozens of interviews. 

9.	Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers 
DB 51572
Swann, Brian; Krupat, Arnold. 
In this follow-up to I Tell You Now (RC 28155), twenty-six authors reflect on their ethnicity and how it relates to their writing. Presented in alphabetical order--from Sherman Alexie to Ofelia Zepeda--each writer explores personal experiences, self-identity, and artistic development. Some strong language.

10.	The Alaska native Reader: History, Culture, Politics 
DB 72102
Williams, Maria Sháa Tláa. 
Essays selected by Alaska Native scholar examine indigenous worldviews, arts, and cultural traditions. In "Memories of My Trap Line," a man describes accompanying his grandfather on a dog sled to check their hunting areas. Includes pieces on European and American colonization, languages, and poetry. 

Fiction

1.	Moccasin Thunder: American Indian stories for Today 
DB 62313
Carlson, Lori M. 
Ten stories about Indians from various tribes. In "How to Get to the Planet Venus" by Joy Harjo, two teenage girls are caught drunk at an Indian boarding school. Other authors include Sherman Alexie, Louise Erdrich, and Joseph Bruchac. Some strong language. 

2.	Love Medicine: A Novel
DB 22061 
Erdrich, Louise. 
A native American poet and short-story writer, poetically fashions this novel out of the mystery, violence, and exaltation of the lives of two Chippewa families in North Dakota, the Kashpaws and the Lamartines. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 

3.	Crooked Hallelujah 
DB 101551
Ford, Kelli Jo.
The collection of interconnected short stories follows the path of four generations of Cherokee women. The author depicts a family of stubborn, proud women making sacrifices for those they love in the midst of larger conflicts. 

4.	When the Light of the World was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: a Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry 
DB 100387
Harjo, Joy; Foerster, Jennifer Elise; Howe, LeAnne.
Collection of poetry by native nations authors, edited by the United States Poet Laureate and author of Crazy Brave (DB 97592). Categorized by geographic regions of the United States, authors represent time periods from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex.

5.	 Mean Spirit : a novel
DB 33685
Hogan, Linda. 
First novel by this Chickasaw poet is set in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Oil is discovered on the land where Native Americans have been resettled, bringing violence, fraud, and betrayal. Nola Blanket, heir to a fortune when her mother is murdered, fears revenge if she reveals that she witnessed the crime. Only years later, when she is awaiting the birth of a child, does she seek to come to terms with the heartbreak that afflicts her people.

6.	House Made of Dawn 
DB 12198 BR 19345
Momaday, N. Scott. 
A Kiowa Indian poet and scholar traces the experience of an unassimilated Indian who cannot adjust to the white world or identify with the dying culture of the American Indian.

7.	There there: a novel 
DB 91321 BR 22564
Orange, Tommy; Taylor-Corbett, Shaun; Cuervo, Alma. 
Twelve people, all Native American, have their own reasons to travel to the Big Oakland Powwow. Some are looking to reconnect with family or share in a celebration of their culture, but not all those gathered have good intentions. Violence and strong language. 

8.	The grass dancer 
DB 42305
Power, Susan. 
Interlocking stories about the Sioux Indians of North Dakota. In these tales, which move freely from the 1860s to the 1970s and 1980s, we learn about the customs and folklore of the Sioux. Power writes of the arrival of a teacher for the reservation's children, of a young couple who must make peace with the ghosts of their ancestors, and of the anger, greed, jealousy, illness, injustice, and poverty that exist on the reservation.

9.	Black Sun 
DB 101429
Roanhorse, Rebecca. 
In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice celebration is coinciding with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event the Sun Priest believes will lead to an unbalancing of the world. As the priests prepare, a ship heads towards Tova with a seemingly harmless passenger. Fantasy fiction.

10.	Bootheel Man: a novel 
DBC 05371
Swingle, Morley. 
When Allison Culbertson takes the case of Joey Red Horse, an Osage Indian charged with stealing a sacred artifact from the Heartland Mound Builder Museum, she finds herself in the middle of a courtroom battle pitting contemporary American Indians against a private museum over legal rights to the bones of 'Bootheel Man,' a Native American who lived, fought, and loved Cahokia and Southeast Missouri in the year 1050. A contemporary murder mystery and legal thriller in a suspenseful story combining history, law, and fiction.