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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown’s classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears by Theda Perdue, Michael Green and Colin G. Galloway
In the early nineteenth century, the U.S.government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears.
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First People by David C. King
First People tells the story of American Indians-from their arrival on the continent 10,000 years ago to their search for identity in the modern world. Avoiding standard clichés, the book presents each tribe as an individual, evolving culture, with its own history, artwork, and traditions.
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit: The 20,000-Year History of American Indians by Jake Page
Today, some two million American Indians inhabit the United States, less than 1 percent of the nation’s population. Their origins have always been viewed from a 500-year-old perspective --yet the true story of the American Indians
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Native American History for Dummies by Dorothy Lippert, Stephen J. Spignesi and Phil Konstantin
A vast and diverse array of nations, tribes, and cultures populated every corner of North America long before Columbus arrived. Native American History for Dummies reveals what is known about their pre-Columbian history and shows how their presence, customs, and beliefs influenced everything that was to follow.
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Navajo Long Walk: The Tragic Story of a Proud Peoples’ Forced March from Their Homeland by Joseph Bruchac
Abenaki Joseph Bruchac and Navajo Shonto Begay combine their talents to tell the tragic story of how, in the 1860s, U.S. soldiers forced thousands of Navajos to march to a desolate reservation 400 miles from their homeland in an effort to “civilize” them.
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The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America by James Wilson
Drawing not only on historical sources but also on ethnography, archaeology, Indian oral tradition, and his own extensive research in Native American communities, James Wilson sets out to make the Indian perspective on the past and the present accessible to a broad audience.
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The Seminole Wars: America’s Longest Indian Conflict by John Missall and Mary Lou Missall
The Seminole Wars were the longest, bloodiest, and most costly of all the Indian wars fought by this nation. This illustrated history is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of all three wars.
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