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Firekeeper's Daughter
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Firekeeper's Daughter

By Angeline Boulley ,

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The Only Good Indians
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The Only Good Indians

By Stephen Graham Jones ,

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The River We Remember
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The River We Remember

By William Kent Krueger ,

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The Night Watchman
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The Night Watchman

By Louise Erdrich ,

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Calling for a Blanket Dance
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Calling for a Blanket Dance

By Oscar Hokeah ,

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This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
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This Land Is Their Land

By David Silverman ,

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Murder on the Red River
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Murder on the Red River

By Marcie R. Rendon ,

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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
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Unworthy Republic

By Claudio Saunt ,

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Treaty Words: For as Long as the Rivers Flow
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Treaty Words

By Aimée Craft , Luke Swinson (illustrator) ,

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Winter Counts
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Winter Counts

By David Heska Wanbli Weiden ,

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The Barren Grounds
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The Barren Grounds

By David A. Robertson ,

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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
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On Savage Shores

By Caroline Dodds Pennock ,

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Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
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Becoming Kin

By Patty Krawec ,

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Where Wonder Grows
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Where Wonder Grows

By Xelena Gonzalez , Adriana M. Garcia (illustrator) ,

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Night of the Living Rez
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Night of the Living Rez

By Morgan Talty ,

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Berry Song
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Berry Song

By Michaela Goade ,

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Whispers Through Time
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Whispers Through Time

By Rosetta Diane Hoessli ,

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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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The Rediscovery of America

By Ned Blackhawk ,

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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
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Indigenous Continent

By Pekka Hämäläinen ,

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Warrior Girl Unearthed
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Warrior Girl Unearthed

By Angeline Boulley ,

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Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
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Tecumseh and the Prophet

By Peter Cozzens ,

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Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
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Education for Extinction

By David Wallace Adams ,

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The Founding Mothers of the United States (a True Book)
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The Founding Mothers of the United States (a True Book)

By Selene Castrovilla ,

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Sisters of the Neversea
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Sisters of the Neversea

By Cynthia L. Smith ,

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Taking on the Billionaire
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Taking on the Billionaire

By Robin Covington ,

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Never Caught Twice: Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850-1890
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Never Caught Twice

By Matthew S. Luckett ,

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Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young
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Sally in Three Worlds

By Virginia Kerns ,

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Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
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Iwígara

By Enrique Salmón ,

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The Mound Builder Myth: Fake History and the Hunt for a Lost White Race
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The Mound Builder Myth

By Jason Colavito ,

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The Place of Stone: Dighton Rock and the Erasure of America's Indigenous Past
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The Place of Stone

By Douglas Hunter ,

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Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands
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Standoff

By Jacqueline Keeler ,

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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through

By Joy Harjo (editor) , LeAnne Howe (editor) , Jennifer Elise Foerster (editor)

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Josie Dances
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Josie Dances

By Denise Lajimodiere , Angela Erdrich (illustrator) ,

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I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land
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I've Been Here All the While

By Alaina E. Roberts ,

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Whereabouts Unknown
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Whereabouts Unknown

By Meredith Doench ,

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Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures
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Assembled for Use

By Kelly Wisecup ,

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Vulnerability Is My Superpower
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Vulnerability Is My Superpower

By Jackie Davis ,

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The North American Indian Orpheus Tradition: Native Afterlife Myths and Their Origins
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The North American Indian Orpheus Tradition

By Ake Hultkrantz ,

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Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation
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Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality

By Michelle R. Jacobs ,

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Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization
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Indian Cities

By Kent Blansett (editor) , Cathleen D. Cahill (editor) , Andrew Needham (editor)

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Fragments of Tess: A Shattered Mind Women's Fiction
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Fragments of Tess

By Marlene F Cheng ,

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A Brutal Reckoning: Andrew Jackson, the Creek Indians, and the Epic War for the American South
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A Brutal Reckoning

By Peter Cozzens ,

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The Healing of Natalie Curtis
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The Healing of Natalie Curtis

By Jane Kirkpatrick ,

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Healer of the Water Monster
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Healer of the Water Monster

By Brian Young ,

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An Indian among Los Indigenas: A Native Travel Memoir
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An Indian among Los Indigenas

By Ursula Pike ,

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White Magic
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White Magic

By Elissa Washuta ,

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The Ghost Road: Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating
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The Ghost Road

By Matthew L.M. Fletcher ,

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All I See Is Violence
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All I See Is Violence

By Angie Elita Newell ,

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