Jaike Spotted Wolf
Oct 23, 2025
My Recommended Reading & Webinar List
I have included a list of readings, webinar recordings, and other resources written or sourced by Native American authors, or scholars who portray an accurate rendering of colonization, genocide and settler harms since "contact" of non-Indigenous to the Americas. Learn more at the 'read more' tab to the left under the image.
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
Online Resources
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
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