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Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
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Blood Meridian

By Cormac McCarthy ,

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Vanishing Act
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Vanishing Act

By Thomas Perry ,

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The Antelope Wife
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The Antelope Wife

By Louise Erdrich ,

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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner

By William Faulkner ,

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Tecumseh: A Life
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Tecumseh

By John Sugden ,

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Castaways: The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Castaways

By Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca , Enrique Pupo-Walker (editor) , Frances M. Lopez-Morillas (translator)

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Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
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Dwellings

By Linda Hogan ,

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The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
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The Lance and the Shield

By Robert M. Utley ,

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The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
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The Plains Across

By John D. Unruh ,

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The Hanging Tree and Other Stories
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The Hanging Tree and Other Stories

By Dorothy M. Johnson ,

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The Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance
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The Patriot Chiefs

By Alvin M. Josephy Jr. ,

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How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay
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How the West Was Lost

By Stephen Aron ,

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The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
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The Water Is Wide

By Pat Conroy ,

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They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School
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They Called It Prairie Light

By K. Tsianina Lomawaima ,

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Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940
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Boarding School Seasons

By Brenda J. Child ,

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Evil Dead Center: A Mystery
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Evil Dead Center

By Carole Lafavor ,

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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
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The Name of War

By Jill Lepore ,

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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
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Dispossessing the Wilderness

By Mark David Spence ,

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Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley
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Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley

By Ephraim G. Squier , Edwin H. Davis ,

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Warpath
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Warpath

By Tony Daniel ,

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Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans
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Jefferson and the Indians

By Anthony F. C. Wallace ,

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Red Earth, White Lies
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Red Earth, White Lies

By Vine Deloria, Jr. ,

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Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
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Laughing Boy

By Oliver La Farge , Wanden Lafarge Gomez ,

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Pilgrim Voices: Our First Year in the New World
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Pilgrim Voices

By Connie Roop (editor) , Peter Roop (editor) , Shelley Pritchett (illustrator)

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Women and Warriors of the Plains: The Pioneer Photography of Julia E. Tuell
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Women and Warriors of the Plains

By Dan Aadland ,

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Smoke Signals
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Smoke Signals

By Sherman Alexie ,

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Shadow Woman
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Shadow Woman

By Thomas Perry ,

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Grandmothers of The Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook
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Grandmothers of The Light

By Paula Gunn Allen ,

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Wraeththu: The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit, The Bewitchments of Love and Hate, The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire
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Wraeththu

By Storm Constantine ,

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Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian
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Fathers and Children

By Michael Paul Rogin ,

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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

By Peter Matthiessen ,

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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems
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The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

By Joy Harjo ,

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The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities
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The American Revolution in Indian Country

By Colin G. Calloway ,

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The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River
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The Organic Machine

By Richard White ,

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Gardens in the Dunes
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Gardens in the Dunes

By Leslie Marmon Silko ,

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Deadly Medicine
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Deadly Medicine

By Peter C. Mancall ,

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The Education of Little Tree
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The Education of Little Tree

By Forrest Carter ,

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Where White Men Fear to Tread
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Where White Men Fear to Tread

By Marvin J. Wolf , Russell Means ,

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