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Folklore

Johnny Arlee
• Beaver Steals Fire: A Salish Coyote Story

John Bierhorst, editor
• Latin American Folktales

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
• Old Indian Legends

Joseph Bruchac
• Heroes & Heroines, Monsters & Magic: Native American Legends & Folktales
• The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Ella E. Clark
• Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest

Harold Courlander
• People of the Short Blue Corn: Tales & Legends of the Hopi Indians

Jaime de Angulo
• Indian Tales: Indian Folklore, Rituals, Hunting Adventures, Allegories, Tall Tales, Blessings & Curses

Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz, editors
• American Indian Myths & Legends

Adam Fortunate Eagle
• Scalping Columbus & Other Damn Indian Stories

Antonio R. Garcez
• American Indian Ghost Stories of the Southwest

Earnest Gouge
• Totkv Mocvse/New Fire: Creek Folktales

Terri Hardin, editor
• Legends & Lore of the American Indians

Susan Hazen-Hammond
• Spider Woman's Web: Traditional Native American Tales About Women's Power

Janet Ruth Heller
• How The Moon Regained Her Shape

Kay Hill
• Glooscap & His Magic: Legends of the Wabanaki Indians

Tony Hillerman
• The Boy Who Made Dragonfly

Will Hobbs
•  Beardream, illustrated by Jill Kastner

Thomas King
• The Truth About Stories

Theodora Kroeber
• The Inland Whale: Nine Stories Retold from California Indian Legends

Bobby Lake-Thom
• Call of the Great Spirit: The Shamanic Life & Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear

Frank B. Linderman
• Old Man Coyote

Hallie N. Love & Bonnie Larson
• Watakame's Journey: The Story of the Great Flood & the New World

Johanna R.M. Lyback
• Indian Legends

Malcolm Margolin, editor
• The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories & Songs

Tim McNeese
• Myths of Native America

Lawrence Millman
• A Kayak Full of Ghosts: Eskimo Folk Tales

James Mooney
• Cherokee Animal Tales
• Myths of the Cherokee

Darrell Norman & Ramon Kramer
• The Return of the Buffalo Horses

Teresa Pijoan
• White Wolf Woman & Other Native American Transformation Myths

Daniel Pinchbeck
• 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Rona Rustige
• Tyendinaga Tales

Leo Sawicki
• Anytime Stories
• Anywhere Stories

George F. Scheer, editor
• Cherokee Animal Tales

Joanne Shenandoah & Douglas M. George
• Skywoman: Legends of the Iroquois

C.J. Taylor
• All the Stars in the Sky: Native Stories from the Heavens
• Bones in the Basket: Native stories of the origin of people
• The Ghost & Lone Warrior
• How We Saw the World: Nine Native stories of the way things began
• The Secret of the White Buffalo: An Oglala Legend

Bertrand N.O. Walker (Hen-Toh)
• Tales of the Bark Lodges

Frank Waters
• Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

Maria Yraceburu
• Legends & Prophecies of the Quero Apache: Tales for Healing & Renewal

Zitkala-Sa
• Old Indian Legends


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History

Jean Afton, David Fridtjof & Andrew E. Masich
• Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups & Combat

William L. Anderson, editor
• Cherokee Removal: Before & After

Anthony Aveni
• The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012

Phil Bellfy
• Indians & Other Misnomers: A Cross-Referenced Dictionary of the People, Persons & Places of Native North America

Jules B. Billard, editor
• The World of the American Indian

D.L. Birchfield
• How Choctaws Invented Civilization & Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World

John Bird, Lorraine Land, Murray Macadam & Diane Engelstad
• Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty & the Future of Canada

Dee Brown
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Joseph Bruchac
• The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Antonino D'Ambrosio
• A Heartbeat & a Guitar: Johnny Cash & the Making of "Bitter Tears"

Philip J. Deloria
• Playing Indian

Vine Deloria Jr.
• Singing for a Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux

Peter Edwards
• One Dead Indian: The Premier, the Police & the Ipperwash Crisis

Gary L. Fogelman
• All About the At'-latl (At least as much as you'll ever need to know)

George Franklin Feldman
• Cannibalism, Headhunting & Human Sacrifice in North America

Doug George-Kanentiio
• Iroquois Culture & Commentary

Jerome A. Greene
• Nez Perce Summer 1877: The U.S. Army & the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

Aubrey L. Haines
• An Elusive Victory: The Battle of the Big Hole

Craig Harris
• Heartbeat, Warble & the Electric Powwow: American Indian Music

George P. Horse Capture & Emil Her Many Horses, editors
• A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Culture

James H. Howard
• Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe & Its Cultural Background

Malcolm Margolin, editor
• The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories & Songs

James A. Maxwell, editor
• America's Fascinating Indian Heritage

Robert S. McPherson
• Dineji Na 'Nith

Alfonso Ortiz, editor
• New Perspectives on the Pueblos

Daniel N. Paul
• We Were Not the Savages: Collision between European & Native American Civilizations

William K. Powers
• Oglala Religion

Salish-Pend d'Oreille Culture Committee, Elders Cultural Advisory Council, & the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes
• The Salish People & the Lewis & Clark Expedition

Joe S. Sando
• Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History
• Pueblo Profiles: Cultural Identity through Centuries of Change

Huston Smith & Reuben Snake, editors
• One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church

John Stands in Timber & Margot Liberty
• Cheyenne Memories

Omer C. Stewart
• Peyote Religion: A History

John Upton Terrell
• American Indian Almanac

John Van Balen
• Great Plains Indian Illustration Index

Mark Van De Logt
• War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army

Paul Wallace
• White Roots of Peace: The Iroquois Book of Life

Donald Ward
• The People: A Historical Guide to the First Nations of Alberta, Saskatchewan & Manitoba

Frank Waters
• Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

C. Keith Wilbur
• Woodland Indians: An Illustrated Account of the Lifestyles of America's 1st Inhabitants

Scott Zesch
• The Captured


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Current Affairs

Tom Bahti
• Southwestern Indian Tribes

D.L. Birchfield
• How Choctaws Invented Civilization & Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World

John Bird, Lorraine Land, Murray Macadam & Diane Engelstad
• Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty & the Future of Canada

Deborah Davis Jackson
• Our Elders Lived It: American Indian Identity in the City

Joy Mannette, editor
• Elusive Justice: Beyond the Marshall Inquiry

J.R. Miller
• Lethal Legacy: Current Native Controversies in Canada

Stephen L. Pevar
• The Rights of Indians & Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian & Tribal Rights


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Health & Spirituality

Lynn Andrews
• Spirit Woman: The Teachings of the Shields

Sun Bear, Wabun Wind & Crysalis Mulligan
• Dancing with the Wheel: The Medicine Wheel Workbook

Joseph Bruchac
• The Native American Sweat Lodge: History & Legends

Pete S. Catches Sr.
• Oceti Wakan (Sacred Fireplace): Life & Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man

Vine Deloria Jr.
• God is Red: A Native View of Religion

Raymond J. DeMallie & Douglas R. Parks, editors
• Sioux Indian Religion: Tradition & Innovation

J.T. Garrett
• The Cherokee Herbal: Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions
• Meditations With the Cherokee: Prayers, Songs & Stories of Healing & Harmony

Michael Garrett
• Walking on the Wind: Cherokee Teachings for Healing through Harmony & Balance

J.T. Garrett & Michael Tlanusta Garrett
• The Cherokee Full Circle: A Practical Guide to Ceremonies & Traditions

Ana Nez Heatherly
• Healing Plants: A Medicinal Guide to Native North American Plants & Herbs

James H. Howard
• Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe & Its Cultural Background

Lee Irwin, editor
• Native American Spirituality

Bobby Lake-Thom
• Call of the Great Spirit: The Shamanic Life & Teachings of Medicine Grizzly Bear

Thomas C. Maroukis
• The Peyote Road: Religious Freedom & the Native American Church

Lewis Mehl-Madrona
• Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine

Nan Moss, with David Corbin
• Weather Shamanism: Harmonizing Our Connection with the Elements

Henry Niese
• The Man Who Knew the Medicine: The Teachings of Bill Eagle Feather

William K. Powers
• Oglala Religion

Joseph Rael
• Being & Vibration

Huston Smith & Reuben Snake, editors
• One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church

Omer C. Stewart
• Peyote Religion: A History

Daniel C. Swan
• Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith & Belief

James Treat, editor
• Native & Christian: Indigenous Voices on Religious Identity in the United States & Canada

Frank Waters
• Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

TerryLee Whetstone
• Good Medicine Book


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Music

Our Native American music library can be found here.
Check out reviews of more than 100 traditional and contemporary Native American musicians, including:

Brule
Robert Tree Cody
Coyote Oldman
Joseph Fire Crow
R. Carlos Nakai
Joanne Shenandoah
TerryLee Whetstone
Johnny Whitehorse
Robert WindPony
Mary Youngblood

... and many more!


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Biographies

David Carson
• Crossing into Medicine Country: A Journey in Native American Healing

Pete S. Catches Sr.
• Oceti Wakan (Sacred Fireplace): Life & Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man

Mary Crow Dog, with Richard Erdoes
• Lakota Woman

Vine Deloria Jr.
• Singing for a Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux

Hugh A. Dempsey
• Charcoal's World: The True Story of a Canadian Indian's Last Stand
• Red Crow: Warrior Chief

Jay C. Fikes
• Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent: Indian Visionary & Activist

Doris Shannon Garst
• The Picture Story & Biography of Red Cloud

Basil Johnston
• Crazy Dave

Woody Kipp
• Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist

Henry Niese
• The Man Who Knew the Medicine: The Teachings of Bill Eagle Feather

Joe S. Sando & Herman Agoyo, editors
• Po'Pay: Leader of the First American Revolution

Tom Swift
• Chief Bender's Burden: The Silent Struggle of a Baseball Star

James Alexander Thom
• Panther in the Sky

Rolling Thunder
• Rolling Thunder Speaks: A Message for Turtle Island

Ruth Holmes Whitehead
• Tracking Doctor Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper


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Poetry

Louise Erdrich
• Original Fire: Selected & New Poems

Malcolm Margolin, editor
• The Way We Lived: California Indian Reminiscences, Stories & Songs

TerryLee Whetstone
• Kairos: The Past, Present & Future


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Art

Jean Afton, David Fridtjof & Andrew E. Masich
• Cheyenne Dog Soldiers: A Ledgerbook History of Coups & Combat

Gary L. Fogelman
• Glass Trade Beads of the Northeast

M.K. Keegan
• Enduring Culture: A Century of Photography of the Southwest Indians

Margot Liberty & Thomas B. Marquis
• A Northern Cheyenne Album

David Montgomery
• Native American Crafts & Skills: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Wilderness Living & Survival

James H. Nottage, editor
• Generations

Robert Painter
• The Native American Indian Artist Directory

Susan Purdy & Cass R. Sandak
• North American Indians: A Civilization Project Book

Daniel C. Swan
• Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith & Belief

Bill Yenne & Susan Garratt
• North American Indians


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Fiction

Sherman Alexie
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
• Indian Killer
• Ten Little Indians

Robert P. Arthur
• Crazy Horse in Heaven

Judd Cole
• Cheyenne #1: Arrow Keeper

Charles de Lint
• Medicine Road, illustrated by Charles Vess
• Svaha

Louise Erdrich
• The Antelope Wife

Adam Fortunate Eagle
• Scalping Columbus & Other Damn Indian Stories

Louis Garafalo
• The Sassamon Circle

Frank Herbert
• Soul Catcher

Kirkpatrick Hill
• Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway

Mercedes Lackey
• Sacred Ground

Louis L'Amour
• The Haunted Mesa

David Matheson
• Red Thunder

C.E. Murphy
• The Walker Papers #1: Urban Shaman

Bill & Cindy Paul
• Shadow of an Indian Star

Celia Rees
• Sorceress

James Alexander Thom
• Panther in the Sky


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Movies

The Adventures of Young Brave (1997)

Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) (2001)

Billy Jack (1971)

Cheyenne Warrior (1994)

Clearcut (1991)

Coyote Waits (2003)

Dances With Wolves (1990)

Dead Man (1996)

Doe Boy (2002)

Dreamkeeper (2003)

Firewalker (1986)

500 Nations (1995)

Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

Hostiles (2017)

Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story (1992)

The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)

Last of the Dog Men (1995)

The Last of His Tribe (2004)

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Medicine Man (1992)

Powwow Highway (2004)

Renegades (1989)

Sioux City (1994)

Skins (2002)

Smoke Signals (1998)

Spirit Rider (2003)

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

A Thief of Time (2004)

Thunderheart (1992)

Waking Up Horton (1997)

The White Dawn (1974)

Windtalkers (2002)

Wolfen (1981)


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