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  • Book & Music Center / Books / Biography, Autobiography & Memoir

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    Our initial effort involves books mainly from North America, but we welcome suggestions about books on other Native and Indigenous peoples. If you have comments or want to suggest additions, corrections, or deletions, please contact us

    Resources: 40 listings
    Name and Description  
    Alex Posey : Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist (American Indian Lives Series)
    by Daniel F., Jr Littlefield
    Paperback - 344 pages Reprint edition (June 1997) Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 080327968X
    Always a People : Oral Histories of Contemporary Woodland Indians
    by Rita Kohn (Compiler), W. Lynwood Montell (Editor), R. David Edmunds (Introduction)
    Hardcover - 320 pages (October 1997) Indiana Univ Pr; ISBN: 0253332982
    Aunt Sarah Woman of the Dawnland
    by Trudy A. Parker (Abenaki)
    Paperback 2nd Rep edition (July 1994) Dawnland Pubns; ISBN: 0966252381
    Bloodlines : Odyssey of a Native Daughter
    by Janet Campbell Hale
    Paperback - 224 pages (February 1998) University of Arizona Press; ISBN: 0816518440
    Claiming Breath
    by Diane Glancy
    Paperback Reissue edition (August 1996) Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803270666
    Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief
    by Peter Aleshire
    Textbook Binding - 368 pages (August 3, 2001) John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471383635
    Crazy Horse and Custer : The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
    by Stephen E. Ambrose
    Paperback (June 1996) Anchor; ISBN: 0385479662
    Dancing My Dream
    by Warren Petoskey
    Paperback: 164 pages
    Publisher: David Crumm Media, LLC (May 12, 2009)
    First Person, First Peoples : Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories
    by Andrew Garrod (Editor), Colleen Larimore (Editor), Louise Erdrich
    Paperback - 280 pages (May 1997) Cornell Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801484146
    Funny, You Don't Look Like One : Observations from a Blue-Eyed Ojibway
    by Drew Hayden Taylor
    Paperback - 132 pages (September 1997) Theytus Books; ISBN: 0919441645
    Grey Owl : The Mystery of Archie Belaney
    by Armand Garnet Ruffo
    Paperback - 224 pages (March 1997) Coteau Books; ISBN: 1550501097
    Hawk Woman Dancing With the Moon
    by Tela Star Hawk Lake
    Hardcover - 206 pages (May 1996) M Evans & Co; ISBN: 0871318024
    Indian School Days
    Basil H. Johnson (Ojibway)
    Paperback Reissue edition (March 1995) Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806126108
    Interior Landscapes : Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors
    by Gerald Vizenor (Chippewa)
    Hardcover - 279 pages (June 1990) Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt); ISBN: 0816618488
    Keeper of the Female Medicine Bundle; Biography of Wihepa, the Oldest Living Member of Her Tribe
    by Allen Ross
    Paperback (February 1998) Wiconi Waste; ISBN: 0962197777
    Land of the Spotted Eagle
    by Luther Standing Bear (Sioux), Melvin R. Gilmore (Designer), Richard N. Ellis
    Paperback - 259 pages (December 1978) Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803258909
    Mabel McKay : Weaving the Dream (Portraits of American Genius, 1)
    by Greg Sarris
    Hardcover (September 1994) Univ California Press; ISBN: 0520086120
    Mankiller : A Chief and Her People
    by Michael Wallis (Contributor), Wilma P. Mankiller
    Paperback - 296 pages (November 1994) St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312113935
    Modern American Indian Leaders: Their Lives and Their Work
    by Dean Chavers
    Hardcover: 792 pages
    Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press; illustrated edition edition (June 30, 2007)
    Mourning Dove : A Salishan Autobiography (American Indian Lives)
    by Mourning Dove, Jay Miller (Editor)
    Paperback Reprint edition (April 1994) Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803282079
    Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative
    by Ignatia Broker (Ojibway), Steven Premo (Photographer)
    Paperback - 135 pages Minnesota Historical Society; ISBN: 0873511670
    On The Rez
    by Ian Frazier
    Hardcover - 311 pages 1st edition (January 2000) Farrar Straus & Giroux; ISBN: 0374226385
    Prison Writings : My Life Is My Sun Dance
    by Leonard Peltier, Harvey Arden (Editor), Ramsey Clark (Preface)
    Paperback - 272 pages (June 2000) Griffin Trade Paperback; ISBN: 0312263805
    Sacred Fireplace : Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man
    Peter V., Jr. Catches (Editor), Peter, Sr.
    Paperback - 250 pages (October 1, 1999) Clear Light Pub; ISBN: 1574160362
    She's Tricky Like Coyote : Annie Miner Peterson, an Oregon Coast Indian Woman
    by Lionel Youst
    Hardcover - 320 pages (October 1997) Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806129727
    Spirit Moves : The Story of Six Generations of Native Women
    by Loree Boyd, Katherine Dieter (Contributor)
    Paperback (April 1996) New World Library; ISBN: 1880032597
    Sun Chief : The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian
    by Leo W. Simmons, Robert V. Hine
    Paperback - 460 pages (June 1963) Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300002270
    Talking Indian : Reflections on Survival and Writing
    by Anna Lee Walters
    Paperback - 224 pages (November 1992) Firebrand Books; ISBN: 1563410214
    The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams
    by Nasdijj
    Born on the Navajo reservation in 1950 to migrant workers (a Navajo storytelling mother and a white cowboy father), Nasdijj has spent his life on the move. His stories are personal ones but imbued with history and the struggle and survival of people who the dominant white society define as marginal.
    Hardcover - 224 pages (October 4, 2000) Houghton Mifflin Co (Trd); ISBN: 0618048928
    The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography : Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, from P
    by Bruce E. Johnsen, Donald A. Grinde,
    Paperback - 480 pages 1 Da Capo edition (September 1998) Da Capo Pr; ISBN: 0306808706
    The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography : Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, from P
    by Bruce E. Johnsen, Donald A. Grinde
    Paperback - 480 pages 1 Da Capo edition (September 1998) Da Capo Pr; ISBN: 0306808706
    The Names : A Memoir
    by N. Scott Momaday
    Paperback - 180 pages Reprint edition (November 1987) University of Arizona Press; ISBN: 0816510466
    The Nature Way
    by Corbin Harney
    Paperback: 136 pages
    Publisher: University of Nevada Press (September 9, 2009)
    The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings from Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman)
    by Charles Alexander Eastman, Kent Nerburn (Editor), Marc Allen List
    Hardcover - 66 pages (September 1993) New World Library; ISBN: 1880032236
    Thunder's Grace : Walking the Road of Visions With My Lakota Grandmother
    by Mary Elizabeth Thunder
    Paperback - 259 pages (October 1995) Talman Company; ISBN: 0882681664
    To the American Indian : Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman
    by Lucy Thompson, Peter Palmquist, Julian Lang (Introduction)
    Paperback - 322 pages (October 1991) Heyday Books; ISBN: 0930588479
    Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse : The World of an Indian Orphanage
    by Sharon Skolnick (Apache), Manny Skolnick (Contributor)
    Hardcover - 144 pages (October 1997) Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803242638
    Where Courage Is Like a Wild Horse : The World of an Indian Orphanage
    by Sharon Skolnick, Manny Skolnick (Contributor)
    Hardcover - 144 pages (October 1997) Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803242638
    Wisdom of the Native Americans : Includes the Soul of an Indian and Other Writings
    by Kent Nerburn (Editor)
    Hardcover - 272 pages (February 1999) New World Library; ISBN: 1577310799
    Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief : An Autobiography
    by Michael Oren Fitzgerald
    Paperback Reprint edition (March 1994) Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0806126027




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