Clarks READING LIST

This week not being on the Res has been hard…I so wanted to be there…every minute of the week.  So, it got me thinking of what I ‘normally’ do during the other 51 weeks of the year.  One of the things I do to feel like I’m there is read.  Read about the Culture.  Read about the History.  Read of Triumphs and of Struggles.  So, I’d like to share a list of books about Native Americans I’ve read that have helped me understand just a little better. 

 In no particular order:
John Ehle
    Trail of Tears:  The rise and fall of the Cherokee Nation

Margaret Craven
    I heard the Owl Call my Name

Kent Nerburn
    Neither Wolf nor Dog
    The Wolf at Twilight
    The Girl who Sang to the Buffalo
    Chief Joseph & The Flight of the Nez Perce
    Voices in the Stones:  Life Lessons from the Native Way
    The Wisdom of the Native Americans

John Sugden
    Tecumseh:  A Life

Joseph M. Marshall III
    The Lakota Ways of Strength and Courage:  Lessons in Resilience from the Bow and the Arrow
    The Journey of Crazy Horse
    The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn
The Dance House:  Stories from Rosebud

John J. Bodine
    Taos Pueblo:  A Walk Through Time

Edward S. Curtis
    Native American Wisdom
Rex Alan Smith
    Moon of Popping Trees:  The Tragedy at Wounded Knee and the End of the Indian Wars

Dee Brown
    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:  An Indian History of the American West

Robert M. Utley
    Sitting Bull

James Welch
    Killing Custer:  The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians

Robert V. Hine & John Mack Faragher
    Frontiers:  A short History of the American West

Daniel J. Sharfstein
    Thunder in the Mountains:  Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis, and the Nez Perce War

David Treuer
    The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

John G. Nehardt
    Black Elk Speaks

Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
    The Heart of Everything There Is

Peter Cozzens
    The Earth is Weeping

Tzvetan Todorov
    The Conquest of America:  The Question of the Other

Jay Miller
    Ancestral Mounds:  Vitality and Volatility of Native America

Rehner Eder
    American Indian Education

David Grann
    Killers of the Flower Moon:  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Biloine Whiting Young & Melvin L. Fowler
    Cohokia:  The Great Native American Metropolis

William Iseminger
    Cohokia Mounds:  America’s First City

Kristie C. Wolferman
    The Osage in Missouri

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & Dina Gilio-Whitaker
    “All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 other Myths about Native Americans

Always looking for new additions to my ‘on deck circle’.  If you have any good suggestions, let me know.