Recommended Readings

My Recommended Reading & Webinar List

This list of suggested readings and webinars cover a number of topics related to Native American history and rights.

MUUSJN Webinar Recordings

• Decolonize Your Mind 1

• Decolonize Your Mind 2

Online Resources

• Find out whose land you are standing on 

• Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages

• Native 101: Changing the Narrative

• Investments in Action: Connect with the transformative work taking place in Native communities across the U.S. 

• Excerpt from Trail of Tears Diary, by Jobe Alexander & Mary Hill 

Nonfiction

NOTE: Book links take you to a description of the book, not a purchasing site. As always, please try to buy from independent booksellers rather than Amazon. One recommended option is Birchbark Books. 

• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann 

• After One Hundred Winters, by Margaret Jacobs 

• American Indian Stories, by Zitkala-Sa 

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown 

• Cheyenne Memories, by John Stands 

• A Different Mirror, by Ronald Takaki 

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask, by Anton Truer 

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer

• Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community, by Brenda J. Child

• The Inconvenient Indian, by Thomas King 

•  Indians in Unexpected Places, by Philip J. Deloria

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 

• Lakota Woman, by Mary Crow Dog 

• Lies My Teacher Told Me,by James W Loewen 

• Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, by Kathleen Duval 

• Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life, by David Treuer 

• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, by Andrés Reséndez 

• The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, by Ned Blackhawk

• What Does Justice Look Like?, by Waziyatawin 

Fiction

• Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko

• The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong, by Stephen Graham Jones

• House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday

• Power, by Linda Hogan

• The Sharpest Sight, by Louis Owens

• Shell Shaker, by LeAnne Howe

• Sundown, by John Joseph Mathews

• Tracks, by Louise Erdrich

• Winter in the Blood, by James Welch

Poetry

• Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz