Brash, Sarah, ed.
Settling the West
. New York: Time Life Books, 1996. A great collection of photographs that depict the settlement of the West.
Brown, Dee.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
. New York: Holt and Company, 1970. A documented account of the destruction of the American Indian from an Indian viewpoint.
Brown, Dee,
The American West
. New York: Scribner and Sons, 1994. The story of the American West as told through the eyes of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers.
Child, Brenda.
Boarding School Seasons, American Indian Families 1900-1940
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. An excellent collection of letters written by students and parents of students attending the Flandreau Boarding School in South Dakota.
Danzier, Gerald, A. and Louis E. Wilson,
The Americans
. Evanston: McDougal Little, Inc. 1990. A comprehensive textbook providing information from a diverse point of view.
Dog, Mary Crow and Richard Erdoes.
Lakota Woman
. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990. A powerful autobiography about the life of a Sioux girl growing up on a reservation in South Dakota.
Jackson, Helen Hunt.
A Century of Dishonor
. New York: Torch Books, 1971. A tale of broken treaties and poor treatment of the Native Americans by the U.S. government.
Neihardt, John G.
Black Elk Speaks
. New York: Pocket Books, 1972. The story of the Sioux as told through the eyes of Black Elk.
Rico, Barbara Roche and Sandra Mano.
American Mosaic, Multicultural Readings in Context
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. A collection of essays, short stories and poems by over twenty ethnic and national groups.
Sandoz, Mari.
Battle of Little Bighorn
. New York: Lippincott, 1988. An account of the Battle of Little Bighorn that analyzes Custer's motives, the reason for the army expedition and for the Indian convocation at Little Bighorn.
Seeley, Virginia, ed.
Plains Native American Literature
. New Jersey: Globe Book Company, 1993. A collection of poems, short stories, and drama written by Native American authors.
Wall, Steve.
Wisdom's Daughters
. New York: Harper Perennial, 1998. A unique book of interviews with women elders of several Native American nations.