Written by Faculty

Elizabeth Fenn – History

Distinguished Professor Emerita– Early America / Native American History

Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, (New York: Hill & Wang, 2014) – Awarded 2015 Pulitzer Prize in History. 


Philip J. Deloria – History

Professor (at CU 1994-2001) – modern U.S. history

Indians in Unexpected Places, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004)– John C. Ewers Book Award winner

Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019)

Recommended by Faculty 


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

Recommended by Graduate Students