I took an Oklahoman Women’s history class in college and read several great books focusing on Native Americans.
* *Cultivating the Rosebuds* by Devon Mihesuah
* *Ties that Bind* by Tiya Miles
These were my favorite nonfiction books that we studied. Hope this helps!
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One of my favorites is Ceremony by Leslie Mormon Silko. It’s sort of a foundational text in Native American Studies/Literature classes, which is where I came across it.
CosmicHero22 on
You could read Killers of the Flower Moon
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is movie good?
SenseiRaheem on
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty. It’s not a zombie novel, despite the name. Very stark fiction that paints an image of reservation life. I couldn’t put it down.
tre3901 on
Empire of the Summer Moon👍
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For non-fiction, the classic suggestion is “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. It mainly covers early Native Americans from colonial times to the late 1800s. There is another book called “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee” by David Treuer that covers the 20th and 21st centuries.
Edit: a book I haven’t read but that I’m hoping to get around to is “Black Elk Speaks”, which is a biography of a famous Oglala Lakota, Black Elk.
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I’m going to reach here but the book “When Monntezuma Met Cortez” by Matthew Restall is a fascinating look at the history of Aztecs
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Fluid_Exercise on
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Why You Can’t Teach United States History Without American Indians ed. Susan Sleeper-Smith et al
Serpico2 on
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne is fantastic.
smasoya on
House made of dawn. The removed. There there. The absolutely true diary of a part time Indian. Tropic of orange.
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I took an Oklahoman Women’s history class in college and read several great books focusing on Native Americans.
* *Cultivating the Rosebuds* by Devon Mihesuah
* *Ties that Bind* by Tiya Miles
These were my favorite nonfiction books that we studied. Hope this helps!
One of my favorites is Ceremony by Leslie Mormon Silko. It’s sort of a foundational text in Native American Studies/Literature classes, which is where I came across it.
You could read Killers of the Flower Moon
is movie good?
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty. It’s not a zombie novel, despite the name. Very stark fiction that paints an image of reservation life. I couldn’t put it down.
Empire of the Summer Moon👍
For non-fiction, the classic suggestion is “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee” by Dee Brown. It mainly covers early Native Americans from colonial times to the late 1800s. There is another book called “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee” by David Treuer that covers the 20th and 21st centuries.
Edit: a book I haven’t read but that I’m hoping to get around to is “Black Elk Speaks”, which is a biography of a famous Oglala Lakota, Black Elk.
I’m going to reach here but the book “When Monntezuma Met Cortez” by Matthew Restall is a fascinating look at the history of Aztecs
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Why You Can’t Teach United States History Without American Indians ed. Susan Sleeper-Smith et al
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne is fantastic.
House made of dawn. The removed. There there. The absolutely true diary of a part time Indian. Tropic of orange.
bury my heart at wounded knee