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Loud Hawk : The United States Versus the American Indian Movement
Exploration
of Ancient Key-Dweller Remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Suggested Reading
Our Suggested Reading list contains books and magazines that we have read, enjoyed, or found informative and useful.
Those that are still in print can be ordered through our association with Amazon.com. Just click on the title or cover and you'll go to Amazon.com where you can make your purchase to the low Amazon.com price.
All the titles included here contain information, opinions, attitudes, etc. that we think the Indian community needs to be aware of. However, we want to point out that we don't necessarily endorse or agree with everything in some of these works.
For example, the Archaeology section contains selections that describe and illustrate the excavations of Native American graves. We believe it is wrong to disturb human burials, but this is something that has happened in the past and continues today. We believe Indian people should know about this and should have the opportunity to decide for themselves how much of this information they need to be exposed to - we note on each Archaeology title that it contains illustrations of human remains and/or burial objects.
We also want to note that some Indian nations have their own archaeology departments or hire archeologists as consultants - not to go out and dig up graves, but to prepare them for the many situations they encounter that involve archaeology. It's in this spirit that we suggest these books to you.
Suggested Reading Categories
| Tecumseh | |
| Contemporary Fiction | |
| Northeastern Indian History & Culture | |
| Northern Indian History & Culture | Archaeology |
Southeastern Indian History & Culture
Southeastern Indians
by Charles Hudson
Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days.
Paperback - (December 1983)
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the SunHernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms
by Charles Hudson
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Paperback - (November 1998) 592 pages
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun; Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms
by Charles Hudson
Availability: This title usually ships within 4-6 weeks.
Hardcover - (July 1997) 608 pages
James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees : Containing the Full Texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900 and the Sacred Formula)
by James Mooney, George Ellison (Introduction)
Paperback - (August 1992) 1 pages
Avg. Customer Review:
- Old Frontiers (The First American Frontier) ~
Usually ships in 24 hours - John P. Brown / Hardcover / Published 1971
Average Customer Review:
Cherokee Indian Nation : A Troubled History
by Duane H. King (Editor)
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Hardcover - (December 1983) 256 pages
Cherokee Removal - The "William Penn" Essays and Other Writings - Jeremiah Evarts
Francis Paul Prucha - University of Tennessee Press
Out of Print
- Cherokee Cavaliers : Forty Years of Cherokee History As Told in the Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family (The Civilization of the america ~
Usually ships in 24 hours- Edward Everett Dale, et al / Paperback / Published 1995
Average Customer Review:
Nancy Ward Cherokee Chieftainess : Dragging Canoe Cherokee-Chickamauga War Chief
by Pat Alderman
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Paperback - (December 1990)
Reading level: Young Adult
We recommend this book because it contains good historical information on Dragging Canoe, a Native American hero who is overlooked in history. This is in spite of the title - we don't know what a "chieftainess" is. Nancy Ward was a Beloved Woman.
Cherokee Americans : The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century
by John R. Finger
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Paperback - (February 1993) 246 pages
The Cherokees : A Population History (Indians of the Southeast)
by Russell Thornton, Nancy Breen (Designer), C. Matthew Shipp (Designer)
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Paperback - (March 1992)
Walk In Your Soul - Love Incantations of the Oklahoma Cherokees
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick & Anna Gritts Kilpatrick - Southern Methodist University Press
Out of Print
Run Toward The Nightland - Magic of the Oklahoma Cherokees
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick & Anna Gritts Kilpatrick - Southern Methodist University Press
Out of Print
Selu : Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom
by Marilou Awiakta, Mary Adair (Illustrator), Wilma Pearl Mankiller
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Paperback - (September 1994) 352 pages
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Tennessee's Indian Peoples : From White Contact to Removal, 1540-1840
by Ronald N. Satz
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Paperback - (November 1979) 109 pages
Removal of the Choctaw Indians
by Arthur H. De Rosier
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Paperback - (June 1970)
The
Natchez Trace : A Pictorial History
by James A. Crutchfield
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Paperback -
(September 1985) 160 pages
Central & South American Indian History & Culture
History of the Conquest of Mexico (Modern Library)
by William H. Prescott
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Hardcover - (October 1, 1998) 994 pages
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History of the Conquest of Peru (Modern Library)
by William H. Prescott
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Hardcover - (September 1998) 816 pages
The World of the Maya
Victor W. Von Hagen - American Library Publishers
Out of Print
Maya Rulers of Time
Arthur G. Miller - University Museum / University of Pennsylvania
Out of Print
Aztecs : An Interpretation
by Inga Clendinnen
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Hardcover - (November 1991) 398 pages
Aztecs : An Interpretation
by Inga Clendinnen
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Paperback - (April 1995)
Western Indian History & Culture
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown (Introduction)
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Paperback - (March 1991) 487
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Black Elk Speaks : Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by John Gneisenau Neihardt (Preface)
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Paperback - (September 1988) 298 pages
Sacagawea of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Ella E. Clark, Margot Edmonds
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Paperback - (April 1984)
Comanche Days
Albert S. Gilles, Sr. - Southern Methodist University Press
Out of Print
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
by James Mooney, Raymond J. Demallie (Designer)
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Paperback - (November 1991)
The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890
by James Mooney
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Hardcover - (November 1991)
Red
Thunder
By David Matheson
Northeastern Indian History & Culture
The Ordeal of the Longhouse : The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
by Daniel K. Richter
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Paperback - (January 1993) 436 pages
The Ordeal of the Longhouse : The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization
by Daniel K. Richter
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Hardcover - (October 1992)
Northern Indian History & Culture
Inua -Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo
William W. Fitzhugh & Susan A. Kaplan - Smithsonian Institution Press
Out of Print
