Featured Native American History Titles in HPNL
In honor of Native American History Month, we recommend the following works about Native American peoples and cultures:
Native American Culture, Philosophy, and Storytelling
The archaeology of ancient North America. Pauketat, Timothy R. and Sassaman, Kenneth E. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2020. HPNL Stacks Q. E77.9 .P38 2020
Making relatives of them: Native kinship, politics, and gender in the Great Lakes country, 1790-1850. Kugel, Rebecca. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023. HPNL New Books E98.K84 2023
Our way, a parallel history: an anthology of native history, reflection, and story. Cajune, Julie, editor. Wheat Ridge, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2023. E76.8 .987 2023
Prophets and ghosts: the story of salvage anthropology. Redman, Samuel J. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021. HPNL Stacks E77.9 .R43 2021
Religion and culture in Native America. Crawford O’Brien, Suzanne and Talamantez, Inés. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2021. HPNL Stacks E98.R3 C7553 2021
Sacred plants of the Americas. Pflugheber, Jill and White, Steven F. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2026. HPNL New Books Q. QK46.5.H85 P45 2026
Thunder song: essays. LaPointe, Sasha taqwšeblu. Berkeley, California: Counterpoint, 2024. HPNL New Books PS3612.A64394 T49 2024
Ways of being in the world: an introduction to Indigenous philosophies of Turtle Island. Sullivan-Clarke, Andrea, editor. Peterborough, Ontario, Canada : Broadview Press, 2023. E98.P5 W39 2023
We had a little real estate problem: the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy. Nesteroff, Kliph, author. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2021. HPNL Stacks E98.C67 N47 2021.
Encounters, Conflict, Cooperation, and Persistence
Aggression and sufferings: settler violence, native resistance, and the coalescence of the Old South. Nooe, F. Evan. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2024. HPNL Stacks F213 .N66 2024
Cherokee power: imperial and indigenous geopolitics in the trans-Appalachian west, 1670-1774. Ray, Kristofer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023. HPNL Stacks E99.C5 R28 2023
Covered with night: a story of murder and Indigenous justice in early America. Eustace, Nicole. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2021. HPNL Stacks HV6524 .E78 2021
Damming the reservation: tribal sovereignty and activism at Fort Berthold. Parker, Angela Kay. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2024. HPNL Stacks E78.N75 P375 2024
Dutch and indigenous communities in seventeenth-century northeastern North America: what archaeology, history, and indigenous oral traditions teach us about their intercultural relationships. Lavin, Lucianne, editor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021. HPNL Stacks F122.1 .D87 2021
The free and the dead: the untold story of the Black Seminole chief, the Indigenous rebel, and America’s forgotten war. Holmes, Jamie. New York: One Signal Publishers / Atria, 2026. HPNL New Books E99.S28 H65 2026
A history in Indigenous voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown interactions in the Removal Era. Cornelius, Carol. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2023. HPNL Stacks KIH40 .C67 2023
Native persistence at a California mission outpost: the bioarchaeology and history of the Asistencia de San Pedro y San Pablo. Eerkens, Jelmer W. et al, editors. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2025. HPNL New Books F868.S156 N386 2025
On savage shores: how indigenous Americans discovered Europe. Dodds Pennock, Caroline. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. HPNL Stacks E58 .D6337 2023
Peace and friendship: an alternative history of the American West. Aron, Stephen. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2022. HPNL Stacks F591 .A76 2022
Standing Bear’s quest for freedom: the first civil rights victory for Native Americans. Dwyer, Lawrence A. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. HPNL Stacks KF228.S78 D89 2022