Literature
- Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories - Craig Lesley, ed.
Collection of short stories focusing on the racial identity, pride and alienation of modern native Americans. - When the Rain Sings: Poems by Young Native Americans
37 poems by young Native Americans, aged 7 to 17, inspired by or matched with photographs of artifacts from the National Musem of the American Indian.
Native Americans of the Northeast
- Dawnland Encounters: Indians and Europeans in Northern New England - Colin G. Calloway
- Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816 - Robert S. Grumet
- Life Along the Merrimac: Collected Histories of the Native Americans Who Lived on its Banks - John Pendergast, ed.
A compilation of Native American life and events as recorded by early New Hampshire historians. - The Wabanakis of Maine and the Maritimes: A Resource Book by and about Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, Micmac, and Abenaki Indians
Books
- Indian Roots of American Democracy - Jose Barreiro
- Lating Echoes: An Oral History of Native American People - Joseph Bruchac
Uses testimony of more than 100 Native Americans to tell the stories of seven generations. - First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History - Colin G. Calloway
- New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America - Colin G. Calloway
- One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark - Colin G. Calloway
This book offers a new look at the early history of the region--a blending of ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history. It features Native voices and perspectives. - The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America - Colin G. Calloway
- Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Paul Cuffe, a Pequot Indian: During Thirty Years Spent at Sea and in Travelling in Foreign Lands - Paul Cuffe
An autobiographical account by Paul Cuffe reproduced as first published in 1839. - Seeds of Change: Readings on Cultural Exchange After 1492. - James E. Davis
- Voices from the West: Life Along the Trail - Katharine Emsden
Excerpts from three pioneer diaries of young women who traveled to the west in the mid-19th century, accompanied by essays which give background information and give voice to Native Americans, African Americans and others who were also involved in the movement in some way. - Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America - Eva Garroutte
Examines the changing processes of racial identification and their implications by looking specifically at the case of American Indians. - Teaching about Native Americans - Karen D. Harvey
Background materials and sample lesson plans for elementary through high school classes. From the National Council for Social Studies. - Native American Voices: A History and Anthology - Steven Mintz
Tells the history of Native Americans in their own words focusing on the themes of continuity, resistance, resilience and adaptability. - Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World - Jack Weatherford
- Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America - Jack Weatherford
Focuses on the ways Native American civilizations, customs and beliefs helped to shape the societies of the European settlers.
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King Philip's War
- King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676 - James David Drake
- Igniting King Philip's War: The John Sassamon Murder Trial - Yasuhide Kawashima
- King Philip's War: The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict - Eric B. Schultz and Michael J. Tougias
- The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity - Jill Lepore
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