Native American books.?

See below. The Leatherstocking Tales series. Also "The Double Life of Pocahontas" by Jean Fritz.

Forrest Carter: The Education of Little Tree

A.W.Eckert: A Sorrow in Our Hearts: The Life Of Tecumseh

E.T.Seton: The Gospel of the Redman

Robert M. Utley: The Lance and The Shield. The Life and Times of Sitting Bull

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian

If you like thriller/detective novels, there are quite a few to choose from. The Barnes & Noble (American bookseller)website has a section on Native American Mystery and Detectives. Tony Hillerman is one author we were recommended when in New Mexico, though I confess I haven't read any of his books.

There's also a website for all Native American authors - www.hanksville.org/storytellers/

And I echo the praise for "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" - very powerful book that makes me cry every time I read it.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - it is a non-fiction book about American history told from the Native American perspective.

Or try, Trail of Tears.

The Wind is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman - review - "I would recommend this book to everyone whether they are interested in Native American wisdom or not. It's a book about life. It's humility, humour and commonsense is amazing. It's not a 'teaching' book, its a book about learning, it doesn't preach, its gives you choice. Since I read it I have spent more time thinking about what Bear Heart says in it, than any other book I have read before. Its full of impact but it's subtle, which may sound like a contradiction, but you need to read it to understand what I mean. It's a very easy book to read, it doesn't use complicated language, it doesn't need to."

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Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions - review - "This book will do more than teach you how to meditate or what stone to pick up off the ground: it will show you what it means to live. Although Lame Deer talks about what he knows of Native American tradition, the glimpse he gives of life through his eyes is more valuable. The tradition is nothing without the fire that lives in the man and this is a book that gives a marvellous account of that fire."

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Hope these are useful or the kind of thing you were after

House Made of Dawn is one of the most complex and beautiful novels I have ever read (and it's about Native Americans).

Ceremony was also very good.

The Trickster by Paul Radin, about a shape-shifting spirit of the American Indians in Michigan, also found in many other Indian myths.

Someone mentioned 'Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee'. I second that. I read it while in high school and found it very compelling.