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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.