Suggest me a book about native American society before europeans

To be more specific, my father and I have been doing lots of research into our family. He claims my great-grandmother was Cherokee (I have no way to validate this but have been looking into the Dawes-Rolls for him). But in these discussions, my father tends to make me a bit uncomfortable and say a lot of things invoking the “noble savage” stereotype. Basically claiming that indigenous people never had war or famine and lived at peace with one another before European influence. Im pretty sure this is wrong since people, no matter where they were, fought and experienced hardship. We are in a family book club so I’d really love to find an interesting book that is an accurate representation of what life was like for indigenous people (preferably those living in the area around Ohio, WV, and KY), something that is written in a more literary way and not like a textbook but with historical documentation. To be clear, my dad isn’t a racist POS or anything. My father does self-identify as Cherokee, but I think he has some sort of weird white guilt thing going on. He was also very close with his grandmother when she was alive and I think he wants to keep the memory of her and her culture framed with rose-colored glasses. I just want him to be accurate when he speaks about history.

by LegallyDubiousPerson