Recommended Books and Authors for Knowledge and Understanding
This list is a compilation from the Lakota Oyate web site and other resources. Please feel free to email us with additions. Also see NOT RECOMMENDED
BIA: We're Not Your Indians Anymore - Various Akwesasne Notes
Wisdom Sits In Places - Keith Basso
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
Of Earth and Elders: Visions and Voices From Native America - Serle Chapman
The Trail of Many Spirits - Serle Chapman
The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash - Johanna Brand
Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner - Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Custer Died For Your Sins - Vine Deloria, Jr.
Behind The Trail of Broken Treaties - Vine Deloria, Jr.
We Talk - You Listen - Vine Deloria, Jr.
God Is Red - Vine Deloria, Jr.
American Indians, American Justice - Vine Deloria, Jr.
Red Earth, White Lies - Vine Deloria, Jr.
Lost Bird of Wounded Knee - Renee Samson Flood
Native Americans - Jack Forbes
Reinventing The Enemy's Language - Joy Harjo/Gloria Bird
In Mad Love and War - Joy Harjo
The State of Native America:  Genocide, Colonization and Resistance - M. Annette Jaimes
Wasi'chu: The Continuing Indian Wars - Bruce Hohansen/Roberto Maestas
Now That The Buffalo's Gone - Alvin M. Josephy
In The Absence of the Sacred - Jerry Mander
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People - Wilma Mankiller
In The Spirit of Crazy Horse - Peter Matthiessen
Indian Country - Peter Matthiessen
From The Heart of Crow Country - Joseph Medicine Crow
House Made of Dawn - N. Scott Momaday
The Man Made of Words - N. Scott Momaday
The Soul of An Indian - Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman)
Speaking for the Generations - Simon J. Oritiz
My Life Is My Sun Dance - Leonard Peltier
Black Elk's Story: Distinguishing Its Lakota Purpose - Julian Rice
Once They Moved About Like The Wind - David Roberts
Great Pretenders: Further Reflections on White Shamanism - Wendy Rose
Women of the Apache Nation - Henrietta Stockel
Cheyenne Memories - John Stands In Timber
Roots of Oppression - Steve Talbot
Blue Horses Rush - Luci Tapahonso
American Indian Holocaust and Survival - Russell Thornton
Stickman - John Trudell
Survivor's Medicine - E. Donald Two Rivers
Wisdom's Daughters - Steve Wall
neon Powwow - Anna Lee Walters/Various
Book of the Hopi - Frank Walters
Native Roots - Jack Weatherford
Killing Custer - James Welch/Paul Stekler
The Earth Shall Weep - James Wilson
Blood of the Land - Rex Weyler