Native American Heritage Month - Recommended Readings

Recommended by Faculty 

• Ari Kelman, A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek, (Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 2015)

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  Celia E. Naylor, African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens. (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2008).

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  Claudio Saunt, Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)

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  Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013)

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  Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (New York: Holt, 1970)

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  Pekka Hämäläinen, The Comanche Empire, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)

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  Bathsheba Demuth, Floating Coasts: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, (New York: W.W. Norton, 2020)

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  David Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present (New York: Penguin Random House, 2019)

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  Alaina Roberts, I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)

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  Pekka Hämäläinen, Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)

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  Mary Crow Dog / Richard Erdoes, Lakota Woman (New York: Grove Press,1990)

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  Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007)

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  Lisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019)

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  Michael John Witgren, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, (Williamsburg: Omohundra Institute of Early American History and Culture, and Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022)

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  Tiya Miles, The Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, (Oakland: University of California Press, 2015)

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  Claudio Saunt, Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, (New York: W.W. Norton, 2021)

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  Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008)

Recommended by Graduate Students

• Farina King, The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2018)

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  Daniel Cobb, M. Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008)

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  Clint Carroll, Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015)

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  Traci Lynne Voyles, Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015).