Bruchac, Marge (Abenaki)
Catherine O'Neill Grace and Marge Bruchac (an adviser for the Wampanoag Indian Program at Plimoth Plantation) provide a well-researched, smooth account of the Wampanoag side of the Thanksgiving story. Arguing that "a number of today's assumptions about that event are based more on fiction than on fact," the authors explain a map that shows Wampanoag territory and the ways in which they acted as "caretakers" never owners of the land, and fascinating facts
National Geographic Children's Books

Edward Goodbird (Hidasta)
Based on the Life and Drawings of Edward Goodbird.  Fifty delightful drawings and five stories...Gives todays children a glimpse of the lives of Hidatsa children in the 19th century. The drawings and stories were recorded in the 1910s by anthropologist Gilbert L. Wilson
Minnesota Historical Society Press

Chief W.G. Grayson (Creek)
One can't help but come away from reading this autobiography of Chief G.W. Grayson with a deep sense of pride in character for this good and brave man. Chief Grayson's dignity, not only with regard to his Creek people, but especially in himself, from his exalted writing style to his modest, but declared nevertheless, mention of accomplishments is remarkable to behold.
University of Oklahoma Press

Horace Axtell (Nez Perce)

That's pronounced "nez-purse," not "nez-pierce," and that's just one of the things to learn from this highly readable book about the Indian nation whose traditional lands are part of what is now Washington and Idaho. Axtell and Aragon weave the traditions of the people of Chief Joseph ("I will fight no more forever" ) with contemporary questions of religion and culture into a fabric that reflects the life of a single man, Nez Perce spiritual leader Axtell, whose grandmother was a Christian but whose great-aunt was a medicine woman. Although he has chosen the latter way, his respect for the spirit, however it shows itself, is palpable. Finding the path of the spirit entailed for him a quest whose way stations he documents with Aragon's help and which included the temptations of liquor, the ambiguous benefits of military service, the promptings of relatives who kept the old ways, and the call of the powwow trail. More than an autobiography, his story is the document of a people's struggle. - Patricia Monaghan

Confluence Press

Ward Churchill (Creek/Cherokee)
Ward Churchill has achieved an unparalleled reputation as a scholar-activist and analyst of indigenous issues in North America. Here, he explores the history of holocaust and denial in this hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and continuing on into the present.
City Lights Publishers

James McCarthy (Papago)
A Tohono O'odham Indian of Arizona, called Papago by the Spanish, recounts his life. (Sun Tracks ; V. 13)
University of Arizona Press

Anna Moore Shaw (Pima)
"A most interesting book. . . . Her account of how the Pima Indians lived, their family structure, how they reared their children, courtship and marriage, how they treated their elders, their religious practices before the coming of a Christian missionary in 1870, and their accommodation with death are related in language that can be easily understood by the layman and, yet, provide information which can be used by the sociologist and anthropologist." —Journal of the West
University of Arizona Press

Howard Adams (Metis)

This book emanated from experiences of life and political struggle under colonization in Metis and other Aboriginal communities in Canada. The book provides a uniquely Aboriginal sociopolitical perspective on the effect of colonization on Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: it also presents a fresh outlook on de-colonization and contemporary Aboriginal life and culture.

Theytus

Rosalio Moises (Yaqui)
"The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues through the last uprising in 1926, and ends with [his] recollections of his life on a Texas farm from 1952 to 1969. The introduction by Professor Kelley adds scholarly analysis to the poignant autobiographical narrative."-Booklist
University of Nebraska Press

The impressive breadth and variety of expression among Native Canadian writers is demonstrated in this fine collection. Contained in the volume are short stories, poems, selections from novels and an excerpt from a play. Some pieces--such as Peter Blue Cloud's and editor King's funny and ironic Coyote tales and Harry Robinson's lengthy poem about an Indian who becomes a circus hit in England-- are clearly designed to be read aloud, reflecting their continuity with oral tradition. Others, like Bruce King's eerie and ominous story of the Hookto, an evil entity that sucks the life out of its victims, seem more in the tradition of Stephen King than what most readers would think of as Native fiction. Not all the pieces are set in Canada--locations range as far as Oklahoma and the Southwest, and city dwellers as well as reserve Natives are depicted. The unsentimental, uncompromisingly authentic work thus reflects the increasingly pan-tribal nature of much Native art and discourse.
University of Oklahoma Press