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Native American history

Axelrod, Alan. Chronicle of the Indian Wars: From Colonial Times to Wounded Knee. Koenecky, 1996. A comprehensive account of four centuries of conflict between whites and North American natives.

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Holt, 1970, 1991. Western settlement from a Native American perspective.

Oswalt, Wendell. This Land Was Theirs: A Study of Native Americans. Mayfield, 1998. Changes in Native American life.

Thornton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. Causes of numerical decline.

Waldman, Carl. Who Was Who in Native American History: Indians and Non-Indians from Early Contacts Through 1900. Facts on File, 1990. Biographical essays of prominent North American natives and the non-natives who came in contact with them.

Native American politics

Deloria, Vine, Jr. Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence. Dell, Reprint, University of Texas Press, 1974. 1985. Legal and moral arguments for new and old tribal treaties of sovereignty.

Josephy, Alvin M., Jr., and others, eds. Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom. University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Documents on the emergence of Native American militancy.

Matthiessen, Peter. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. Viking Penguin, 1991. Full account of the 1973 shootout at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

Prucha, Francis Paul. The Indians in American Society: From the Revolutionary War to the Present. University of California Press, 1985. A short survey of the history of Native American rights, self-determination, and governmental policies.

Smith, Paul Chaat, and Robert Allen Warrior. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. New Press, 1996. A detailed account of the events and politics of the American Indian Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Native American religions

Bonvillain, Nancy. Native American Religion. Chelsea House, 1996. An introduction to Native American religious beliefs and practices; appropriate for students.

Carmody, Denise, and John Carmody. Native American Religions: An Introduction. Paulist, 1993. Comprehensive work on Native American spirituality and religion.

Hausman, Gerald. Turtle Island Alphabet: A Lexicon of Native American Symbols and Culture. St. Martin's, 1992. This dictionary of Native American mythology and folklore includes terms, artifacts, and objects.

Lyon, William. Encyclopedia of Native American Healing. ABC-CLIO, 1996. An overview of Native American cultures, customs, and rituals of shamanic healing.

Rutledge, Don, and Rita Robinson. Center of the World: Native American Spirituality. Newcastle, 1992. Examines the foundations of Native American religious belief.

Native Americans

Birchfield, D. L., ed. The Encyclopedia of North American Indians. Marshall Cavendish, 1997. A comprehensive and thorough encyclopedia of Native American history and culture.

Champagne, Duane, ed. The Native North American Almanac. Gale, 1994. This reference work comprises a handbook, historical chronology, biographical dictionary, and directory.

Josephy, Alvin. 500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians. Knopf, 1994. This companion volume to the CBS television documentary provides an extensively illustrated overview of Native American history with a focus on the politics of European conquest.

Kopper, Phillip. The Smithsonian Book of the North American Indians: Before the Coming of the Europeans. Smithsonian, 1986. Extensively illustrated archaeological account focusing on the pre-European era.

Malinowski, Sharon, and others. The Gale Encyclopedia of North American Tribes. 4 vols. Gale , 1998. Information on 400 groups in 13 geographic regions.

Waldman, Carl. Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. Facts on File, 1999. Illustrated presentation of 140 individual tribes.

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