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Mayflower: Voyage, Community, War
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Mayflower

By Nathaniel Philbrick ,

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Love Medicine
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Love Medicine

By Louise Erdrich ,

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

By Sherman Alexie ,

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A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West
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A Terrible Glory

By James Donovan ,

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Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
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Creatures of Empire

By Virginia DeJohn Anderson ,

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Ramona
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Ramona

By Helen Hunt Jackson ,

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Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West
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Blood and Thunder

By Hampton Sides ,

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Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition
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Tennessee Frontiers

By John R. Finger ,

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The War That Made America
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The War That Made America

By Fred Anderson ,

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Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures
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Song for the Horse Nation

By National Museum of the American Indian ,

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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma

By Camilla Townsend ,

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The First Oregonians
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The First Oregonians

By Laura Berg (editor) ,

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Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
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Facing East from Indian Country

By Daniel K. Richter ,

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Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism
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Columbus and Other Cannibals

By Jack D. Forbes ,

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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
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The Lewis and Clark Journals

By Meriwether Lewis , William Clark , Members of the Corps of Discovery

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Print the Legend: Photography and the American West
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Print the Legend

By Martha A. Sandweiss ,

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How Chipmunk Got His Stripes
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How Chipmunk Got His Stripes

By James Bruchac , Joseph Bruchac , Jose Aruego (illustrator)

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The Plague of Doves
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The Plague of Doves

By Louise Erdrich ,

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Where the Blood Mixes
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Where the Blood Mixes

By Kevin Loring ,

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Travels of William Bartram
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Travels of William Bartram

By William Bartram ,

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Weedflower
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Weedflower

By Cynthia Kadohata ,

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The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
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The Real All Americans

By Sally Jenkins ,

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Simon Girty: Turncoat Hero
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Simon Girty

By Phillip W. Hoffman ,

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The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
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The People Have Never Stopped Dancing

By Jacqueline Shea Murphy ,

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African American Women of the Old West
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African American Women of the Old West

By Tricia Martineau Wagner ,

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Indians in Unexpected Places
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Indians in Unexpected Places

By Philip J. Deloria ,

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Food Plants of Interior First Peoples
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Food Plants of Interior First Peoples

By Nancy J. Turner ,

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Bones, Boats, & Bison: Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America
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Bones, Boats, & Bison

By E. James Dixon ,

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Calico Captive
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Calico Captive

By Elizabeth George Speare , W.T. Mars (illustrator) ,

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Powwow's Coming
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Powwow's Coming

By Linda Boyden ,

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Jingle Dancer
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Jingle Dancer

By Cynthia Leitich Smith , Cornelius Van Wright (illustrator) , Ying-Hwa Hu (illustrator)

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Commerce of the Prairies: Life on the Great Plains in the 1830's and 1840's
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Commerce of the Prairies

By Josiah Gregg ,

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Flight
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Flight

By Sherman Alexie ,

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The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast
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The Common Pot

By Lisa Brooks ,

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The Night Birds
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The Night Birds

By Thomas Maltman ,

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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920
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The Destruction of the Bison

By Andrew C. Isenberg ,

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Superior Death
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Superior Death

By Matthew Williams ,

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The Warrior
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The Warrior

By Sharon Sala ,

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Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations
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Blood Struggle

By Charles F. Wilkinson ,

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General Crook and the Western Frontier
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General Crook and the Western Frontier

By Charles M. Robinson ,

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The Texas Indians
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The Texas Indians

By David La Vere ,

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The Dark Horse
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The Dark Horse

By Craig Johnson ,

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If You Poison Us: Uranium & Native Americans
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If You Poison Us

By Peter H Eichstaedt ,

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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining

By Doug Brugge (editor) , Timothy Benally (editor) , Esther Yazzie-Lewis (editor)

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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza De Vaca
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A Land So Strange

By Andres Resendez ,

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From the Deep Woods to Civilization
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From the Deep Woods to Civilization

By Charles Alexander Eastman ,

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War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War
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War of a Thousand Deserts

By Brian DeLay ,

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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources
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Tending the Wild

By M. Kat Anderson ,

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The Winter People
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The Winter People

By Joseph Bruchac ,

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Zorro
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Zorro

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