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• Indigenous Firsts

  a History of Native American Achievements and Events

  Dennis, Yvonne Wakim,

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  "Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievement and Events recognizes and honors 2,000 barrier-breaking trailblazers and history-making events in multiple fields-arts, entertainment, business, sovereignty, education, government,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Native America From 1890 to the Present

  Treuer, David,

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  "Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear—and not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book

  Hill, Gord,

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  "The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book powerfully portrays flashpoints in history when Indigenous peoples have risen up and fought back against colonizers and other oppressors. Events depicted include the the Spanish conquest of the Aztec, Mayan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Native America

  the Story of the First Peoples

  Feder, Kenneth L.,

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  "An epic deep history of the Indigenous peoples of North America, covering more than 20,000 years of astonishing diversity, adaptation, resilience, and continuity"

• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

  Blackhawk, Ned,

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  "The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Native Nations

  a Millennium in North America

  DuVal, Kathleen,

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  "In this magisterial history, Kathleen DuVal tells the story of Native nations, from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to the present, reframing North American history with Indigenous power and sovereignty at its center.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• As Long as Grass Grows

  the Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice From Colonization to Standing Rock

  Gilio-Whitaker, Dina,

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  "Through the unique lens of "Indigenized environmental justice," Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty violations, struggles for food and water security, and protection of sacred sites, while…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By the Fire We Carry

  the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

  Nagle, Rebecca,

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  "Rebecca Nagle recounts the generations-long fight for tribal land and sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma. By chronicling both the contemporary legal battle and historic acts of Indigenous resistance, By the Fire We Carry stands as a landmark work of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oak Flat

  a Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  Redniss, Lauren,

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  "Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world’s largest mining conglomerates."

• The Cost of Free Land

  Jews, Lakota, and An American Inheritance

  Clarren, Rebecca,

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  "Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world’s largest mining conglomerates."

• Ghosts of Crook County

  An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land

  Cobb, Russell, 1974-

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  "The true—and unsolved—story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed"

• We Survived the Night

  NoiseCat, Julian Brave,

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  "A stunning work of narrative non-fiction from one of the most powerful young Native American writers at work today—We Survived the Night combines investigative journalism, folklore, and a deeply personal father-son journey in a searing portrait of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

  Mays, Kyle T., 1987-

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  "The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America"

• Whiskey Tender

  a Memoir

  Taffa, Deborah Jackson, 1969-

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  "Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl—born on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico—comes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent's desires for her to transcend the class and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indigenous Continent

  the Epic Contest for North America

  Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967-

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  "In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hämäläinen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless "victims" of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled North America well into the 19th…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  "In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Savage Shores

  How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

  Dodds Pennock, Caroline, 1978-

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  "Drawing on their surviving literature and poetry and subtly layering European eyewitness accounts against the grain, Pennock gives us a sweeping account of the Indigenous American presence in, and impact on, early modern Europe."

• Covered With Night

  a Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

  Eustace, Nicole,

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  "On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Surviving Genocide

  Native Nations and the United States From the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

  Ostler, Jeffrey,

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  "An authoritative contribution to the history of the United States' violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of indigenous lands, including the use of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unworthy Republic

  Saunt, Claudio

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  Available on Hoopla: "Drawing on firsthand accounts and the voluminous records produced by the federal government, Saunt's deeply researched book argues that Indian Removal, as advocates of the policy called it, was not an inevitable chapter in US…Read moreRead more of this annotation