Gimtųjų amerikiečių

Šiuolaikinis Amerikos čiabuvių gyvenimas pulsuoja senovinių tradicijų ritmais, įaustais į šiuolaikines realijas – nuo krepšinio aikštelių rezervatuose iki ligoninių operacinių. Šios galingos asmeninės istorijos ir kultūriniai pasakojimai atskleidžia čiabuvių bendruomenių atsparumą, išmintį ir nuolatinę evoliuciją šiandienos Amerikoje.

Gimtųjų amerikiečių knygų santraukos

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

parašė Stephen Graham Jones

At a Montana church in 1912, a Blackfeet vampire arrives to confess forty years of revenge.

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🪶 Indigenous Horror 🏛️ Colonialism As Horror 🩸 Vampire Transformation 💔 Generational Trauma 🦴 Body Horror

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

At a Montana church in 1912, a Blackfeet vampire arrives to confess forty years of revenge.

parašė Stephen Graham Jones 2025 448 puslapiai

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61 000+ įvertinimai

🪶 Indigenous Horror 🏛️ Colonialism As Horror 🩸 Vampire Transformation 💔 Generational Trauma 🦴 Body Horror

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

parašė Dee Brown • 1970

Broken treaties, forced marches, and buffalo slaughter: the American West from the losing side.

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🏹 Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Forced Relocation 🏞️ Westward Expansion ⚔️ Settler Colonialism

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Broken treaties, forced marches, and buffalo slaughter: the American West from the losing side.

parašė Dee Brown 1970 509 puslapiai

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🏹 Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Forced Relocation 🏞️ Westward Expansion ⚔️ Settler Colonialism

There There

parašė Tommy Orange • 2018

A dozen urban Native Americans converge at an Oakland powwow, carrying histories they cannot outrun.

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🏙️ Urban Native Experience 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🎭 Ensemble Cast 🪶 Cultural Reclamation 🤝 Community Resilience

There There

A dozen urban Native Americans converge at an Oakland powwow, carrying histories they cannot outrun.

parašė Tommy Orange 2018 294 puslapiai

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🏙️ Urban Native Experience 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🎭 Ensemble Cast 🪶 Cultural Reclamation 🤝 Community Resilience

1491

parašė Charles C. Mann • 2005

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

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🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

1491

A hemisphere of cities, empires, and millions, emptied by smallpox before colonists arrived.

parašė Charles C. Mann 2005 563 puslapiai

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🏛️ Pre-Columbian History 🗿 Indigenous Civilizations 📖 Revisionist History 🌍 Columbian Exchange 🌿 Indigenous Knowledge

A People’s History of the United States

parašė Howard Zinn • 1980

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

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200 000+

📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

A People’s History of the United States

The history you learned in school is a cover story for class war, genocide, and slave revolts.

parašė Howard Zinn 1980 729 puslapiai

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📖 Revisionist History 🔍 History From Below 🦅 American Empire 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Class Struggle

The Reason You Walk

parašė Wab Kinew • 2015

His father endured residential school. His final lesson: how to forgive, and how to die.

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4 000+

🧡 Indigenous Memoir 🏚️ Residential Schools 🪶 Anishinaabe Culture 🤝 Reconciliation ✊ Indigenous Activism

The Reason You Walk

His father endured residential school. His final lesson: how to forgive, and how to die.

parašė Wab Kinew 2015 273 puslapiai

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🧡 Indigenous Memoir 🏚️ Residential Schools 🪶 Anishinaabe Culture 🤝 Reconciliation ✊ Indigenous Activism

Flight

parašė Sherman Alexie • 2007

Shot in a bank, a Native foster kid hurtles through strangers' lives across American history.

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🌀 Body-Swap Time Travel 🪶 Native Coming Of Age 🏚️ Foster Care Trauma 🫂 Found Family 🔗 Generational Trauma

Flight

Shot in a bank, a Native foster kid hurtles through strangers' lives across American history.

parašė Sherman Alexie 2007 208 puslapiai

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🌀 Body-Swap Time Travel 🪶 Native Coming Of Age 🏚️ Foster Care Trauma 🫂 Found Family 🔗 Generational Trauma

Visiškai tikras nepilno etato indėno dienoraštis

parašė Sherman Alexie • 2007

A Spokane cartoonist transfers to an all-white school, becoming a stranger in both worlds.

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🏠 Reservation Life 🎭 Dual Identity 🌿 Indigenous Coming Of Age 🏀 Sports And Identity 🖤 Dark Humor

Visiškai tikras nepilno etato indėno dienoraštis

A Spokane cartoonist transfers to an all-white school, becoming a stranger in both worlds.

parašė Sherman Alexie 2007 230 puslapiai

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200 000+ įvertinimai

🏠 Reservation Life 🎭 Dual Identity 🌿 Indigenous Coming Of Age 🏀 Sports And Identity 🖤 Dark Humor

God Is Red

parašė Vine Deloria Jr. • 1972

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

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📖 Indigenous Theology 🏞️ Sacred Geography ✊ Decolonial Religion 🌍 Ecotheology 🌐 Worldview Clash

God Is Red

Indigenous peoples root religion in land; Christians in time, and the planet pays the price.

parašė Vine Deloria Jr. 1972 325 puslapiai

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📖 Indigenous Theology 🏞️ Sacred Geography ✊ Decolonial Religion 🌍 Ecotheology 🌐 Worldview Clash

Original Sins

parašė Eve L. Ewing • 2025

Schools perfected America's founding crimes on Black and Native children.

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📚 History Of Education 🏫 Schooling And Race ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism

Original Sins

Schools perfected America's founding crimes on Black and Native children.

parašė Eve L. Ewing 2025 400 puslapiai

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📚 History Of Education 🏫 Schooling And Race ⚖️ Critical Race Theory 🏹 Settler Colonialism 💰 Racial Capitalism

Empire of the Summer Moon

parašė S.C. Gwynne • 2010

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

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🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Empire of the Summer Moon

An empire on horseback ruled the plains for two centuries. Then the six-shooter arrived.

parašė S.C. Gwynne 2010 371 puslapiai

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🪶 Plains Indians 🏜️ American Frontier 🐎 Horse Cultures ⚔️ Guerrilla Warfare ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Love Medicine

parašė Louise Erdrich • 1984

One woman's death in a blizzard unravels sixty years of secrets on a Chippewa reservation.

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28 000+

🏜️ Reservation Life 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga 📚 Interconnected Stories 💔 Generational Trauma 🫂 Found Family

Love Medicine

One woman's death in a blizzard unravels sixty years of secrets on a Chippewa reservation.

parašė Louise Erdrich 1984 367 puslapiai

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🏜️ Reservation Life 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga 📚 Interconnected Stories 💔 Generational Trauma 🫂 Found Family

To the Moon and Back

parašė Eliana Ramage • 2025

A Cherokee girl dreams of becoming an astronaut, but her family's past exerts its own gravity.

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🌿 Indigenous Family Saga 🚀 Astronaut Dreams 👭 Sibling Rivalry 🏳️‍🌈 Queer First Love 🩹 Intergenerational Trauma

To the Moon and Back

A Cherokee girl dreams of becoming an astronaut, but her family's past exerts its own gravity.

parašė Eliana Ramage 2025 448 puslapiai

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🌿 Indigenous Family Saga 🚀 Astronaut Dreams 👭 Sibling Rivalry 🏳️‍🌈 Queer First Love 🩹 Intergenerational Trauma

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear

parašė Lori Arviso Alvord • 2000

Why a Navajo surgeon began inviting medicine men into the operating room.

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📖 Medical Memoir 🌿 Integrative Medicine 🔥 Traditional Healing 🌍 Cross-Cultural Medicine 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine

The Scalpel and the Silver Bear

Why a Navajo surgeon began inviting medicine men into the operating room.

parašė Lori Arviso Alvord 2000 205 puslapiai

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📖 Medical Memoir 🌿 Integrative Medicine 🔥 Traditional Healing 🌍 Cross-Cultural Medicine 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine

On the Toltec Path

parašė Ken Eagle Feather • 1995

Castaneda's path: enter dream worlds, steady perception, let mortality strip the trivial.

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117

🪶 Shamanic Practices 👁️ Perception Training 🌙 Dreamwork ⚡ Energy Work 🎭 Ego Dissolution

On the Toltec Path

Castaneda's path: enter dream worlds, steady perception, let mortality strip the trivial.

parašė Ken Eagle Feather 1995 304 puslapiai

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117 įvertinimai

🪶 Shamanic Practices 👁️ Perception Training 🌙 Dreamwork ⚡ Energy Work 🎭 Ego Dissolution

Alaska by James A. Michener

parašė Steve Berry • 1988

A frozen land draws mammoth hunters, Russian fur traders, and American dreamers. It bends them all.

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🏛️ Epic Historical Saga 🌍 Land As Character 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🤝 Cultural Collision 🧊 Survival Against Nature

Alaska by James A. Michener

A frozen land draws mammoth hunters, Russian fur traders, and American dreamers. It bends them all.

parašė Steve Berry 1988

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🏛️ Epic Historical Saga 🌍 Land As Character 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🤝 Cultural Collision 🧊 Survival Against Nature

The Truth About Stories

parašė Thomas King • 2003

How colonial narratives invented 'the Indian' to justify erasure, and how Native stories fight back.

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4 000+

🔴 Native Identity ✊ Storytelling As Resistance 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🗑️ Cultural Erasure

The Truth About Stories

How colonial narratives invented 'the Indian' to justify erasure, and how Native stories fight back.

parašė Thomas King 2003 184 puslapiai

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4 000+ įvertinimai

🔴 Native Identity ✊ Storytelling As Resistance 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 🗣️ Oral Tradition 🗑️ Cultural Erasure

Wandering Stars

parašė Tommy Orange • 2024

An 1864 massacre survivor. A boarding school runaway. A powwow dancer shot in Oakland. One family.

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🩸 Inherited Trauma 🏫 Boarding School Assimilation 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🪶 Cultural Reclamation

Wandering Stars

An 1864 massacre survivor. A boarding school runaway. A powwow dancer shot in Oakland. One family.

parašė Tommy Orange 2024 315 puslapiai

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🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🩸 Inherited Trauma 🏫 Boarding School Assimilation 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🪶 Cultural Reclamation

We Are Dancing for You

parašė Cutcha Risling Baldy • 2018

Colonialism targeted Indigenous women's power; reviving a puberty ceremony is the counteroffensive.

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171

🌸 Indigenous Women's Power 🕯️ Ceremony And Ritual 🏛️ Settler Colonialism 📝 Ethnographic Critique 🩸 Menstruation Beliefs

We Are Dancing for You

Colonialism targeted Indigenous women's power; reviving a puberty ceremony is the counteroffensive.

parašė Cutcha Risling Baldy 2018 205 puslapiai

4.51

171 įvertinimai

🌸 Indigenous Women's Power 🕯️ Ceremony And Ritual 🏛️ Settler Colonialism 📝 Ethnographic Critique 🩸 Menstruation Beliefs

Big Chief

parašė Jon Hickey • 2025

Half Anishinaabe, half white, a rez lawyer rigs elections, waiting for a home that never comes.

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🏛️ Tribal Politics 🏠 Rez Life 🌓 Mixed Heritage 💰 Political Corruption 🔥 Grief And Ritual

Big Chief

Half Anishinaabe, half white, a rez lawyer rigs elections, waiting for a home that never comes.

parašė Jon Hickey 2025 320 puslapiai

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🏛️ Tribal Politics 🏠 Rez Life 🌓 Mixed Heritage 💰 Political Corruption 🔥 Grief And Ritual

Navajos Wear Nikes

parašė Jim Kristofic • 2011

The only white kid on the Rez: learning Navajo, herding sheep, earning what belonging costs.

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🏜️ Reservation Life 🌐 Cultural Identity 👁️ Outsider Perspective 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🪶 Indigenous Traditions

Navajos Wear Nikes

The only white kid on the Rez: learning Navajo, herding sheep, earning what belonging costs.

parašė Jim Kristofic 2011 230 puslapiai

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500+ įvertinimai

🏜️ Reservation Life 🌐 Cultural Identity 👁️ Outsider Perspective 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoir 🪶 Indigenous Traditions

Apvalieji namai

parašė Louise Erdrich • 2012

His mother assaulted and the law powerless, a thirteen-year-old Ojibwe boy pursues his own justice.

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🏘️ Reservation Life ⚖️ Tribal Justice 🔍 Boy Sleuths ⚔️ Vigilante Justice 🫂 Family After Violence

Apvalieji namai

His mother assaulted and the law powerless, a thirteen-year-old Ojibwe boy pursues his own justice.

parašė Louise Erdrich 2012 323 puslapiai

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🏘️ Reservation Life ⚖️ Tribal Justice 🔍 Boy Sleuths ⚔️ Vigilante Justice 🫂 Family After Violence

Spirit Run

parašė Noé Álvarez • 2020

He joined a 6,000-mile indigenous run, and his mother's silence finally made sense.

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🏃 Running Memoirs 🌿 Indigenous Spirituality 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏔️ Ultrarunning

Spirit Run

He joined a 6,000-mile indigenous run, and his mother's silence finally made sense.

parašė Noé Álvarez 2020 218 puslapiai

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🏃 Running Memoirs 🌿 Indigenous Spirituality 🧳 Immigrant Experience 🧬 Generational Trauma 🏔️ Ultrarunning

The Company

parašė Stephen R. Bown • 2020

A fur company once ruled a third of North America. Its collapse created Canada.

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🦫 Fur Trade 🏢 Corporate History 🇨🇦 Canadian History 👑 Colonialism 🪶 Indigenous History

The Company

A fur company once ruled a third of North America. Its collapse created Canada.

parašė Stephen R. Bown 2020 496 puslapiai

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🦫 Fur Trade 🏢 Corporate History 🇨🇦 Canadian History 👑 Colonialism 🪶 Indigenous History

The Apache Wars

parašė Paul Andrew Hutton • 2016

A boy's kidnapping, a chief's brutal murder, and a shaman's vengeance ignited America's longest war.

4.12

1 000+

🪓 Frontier History 🏹 Native Resistance 📜 Broken Treaties 🚂 American Expansion ⛰️ Guerrilla Warfare

The Apache Wars

A boy's kidnapping, a chief's brutal murder, and a shaman's vengeance ignited America's longest war.

parašė Paul Andrew Hutton 2016 514 puslapiai

4.12

1 000+ įvertinimai

🪓 Frontier History 🏹 Native Resistance 📜 Broken Treaties 🚂 American Expansion ⛰️ Guerrilla Warfare

Firekeeper's Daughter

parašė Angeline Boulley • 2021

After a murder, an Ojibwe teen spies on her reservation for the FBI, falling for her handler.

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🏘️ Small Town Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 💔 Family Betrayal 🕵️‍♀️ Unlikely Informant 💋 Forbidden Romance

Firekeeper's Daughter

After a murder, an Ojibwe teen spies on her reservation for the FBI, falling for her handler.

parašė Angeline Boulley 2021 496 puslapiai

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🏘️ Small Town Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 💔 Family Betrayal 🕵️‍♀️ Unlikely Informant 💋 Forbidden Romance

Braiding Sweetgrass

parašė Robin Wall Kimmerer • 2013

Two sciences braided: a Potawatomi botanist on why plants are teachers and earth is a gift.

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📜 Traditional Ecological Knowledge 🎁 Gift Economy 🌿 Nature Connection 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🌍 Environmental Philosophy

Braiding Sweetgrass

Two sciences braided: a Potawatomi botanist on why plants are teachers and earth is a gift.

parašė Robin Wall Kimmerer 2013 408 puslapiai

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📜 Traditional Ecological Knowledge 🎁 Gift Economy 🌿 Nature Connection 🌱 Ecological Restoration 🌍 Environmental Philosophy

Keeper'n Me

parašė Richard Wagamese

Taken from the trapline at three, he returns at twenty-five in platforms and borrowed skin.

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🏠 Sixties Scoop Fiction 🪶 Cultural Reclamation 👴 Elder Teachings 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🤝 Family Reconciliation

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Keeper'n Me

Taken from the trapline at three, he returns at twenty-five in platforms and borrowed skin.

parašė Richard Wagamese 1994 224 puslapiai

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🏠 Sixties Scoop Fiction 🪶 Cultural Reclamation 👴 Elder Teachings 👨‍👩‍👦 Found Family 🤝 Family Reconciliation

The Earth Is Weeping

parašė Peter Cozzens • 2016

Why the Army lost, the tribes rarely united, and the buffalo's death decided the Indian Wars.

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🏜️ Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties ⚔️ Intertribal Warfare 🐃 Buffalo Hunting 👻 Ghost Dance Movement

The Earth Is Weeping

Why the Army lost, the tribes rarely united, and the buffalo's death decided the Indian Wars.

parašė Peter Cozzens 2016 544 puslapiai

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🏜️ Plains Indian Wars 📜 Broken Treaties ⚔️ Intertribal Warfare 🐃 Buffalo Hunting 👻 Ghost Dance Movement

The Double Life of Pocahontas

parašė Jean Fritz • 1983

Kidnapped by settlers, baptized as Rebecca, dead at 21: the true story of Pocahontas.

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🇺🇸 Colonial America 🪶 Native American History 🌍 Cultural Encounter 🧱 Forced Assimilation 🏚️ Indigenous Dispossession

The Double Life of Pocahontas

Kidnapped by settlers, baptized as Rebecca, dead at 21: the true story of Pocahontas.

parašė Jean Fritz 1983 96 puslapiai

3.46

500+ įvertinimai

🇺🇸 Colonial America 🪶 Native American History 🌍 Cultural Encounter 🧱 Forced Assimilation 🏚️ Indigenous Dispossession

Living Resistance

parašė Kaitlin B. Curtice • 2023

Resistance is a daily practice of integration, starting in your body and extending to the land.

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1 000+

🪶 Indigenous Spirituality 🔓 Decolonial Practice 🦶 Embodied Resistance ✊ Spiritual Activism 💗 Radical Self-Acceptance

Living Resistance

Resistance is a daily practice of integration, starting in your body and extending to the land.

parašė Kaitlin B. Curtice 2023 197 puslapiai

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1 000+ įvertinimai

🪶 Indigenous Spirituality 🔓 Decolonial Practice 🦶 Embodied Resistance ✊ Spiritual Activism 💗 Radical Self-Acceptance

The New Penguin History of Canada

parašė Robert Bothwell • 2006

How French and British rivalry, a vast unforgiving land, and an accidental border forged Canada.

3.59

413

🍁 Canadian History 📚 National Histories ⚔️ Imperial Rivalry 🦫 Fur Trade 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Loyalist Migration

The New Penguin History of Canada

How French and British rivalry, a vast unforgiving land, and an accidental border forged Canada.

parašė Robert Bothwell 2006 500 puslapiai

3.59

413 įvertinimai

🍁 Canadian History 📚 National Histories ⚔️ Imperial Rivalry 🦫 Fur Trade 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Loyalist Migration

The Frontiersmen

parašė Allan W. Eckert • 1967

The Shawnee captured a teenage fugitive to burn him alive. He became their brother instead.

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🌄 American Frontier 📖 Narrative History ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 🔥 Indian Wars 🏹 Native Resistance

The Frontiersmen

The Shawnee captured a teenage fugitive to burn him alive. He became their brother instead.

parašė Allan W. Eckert 1967 652 puslapiai

4.46

4 000+ įvertinimai

🌄 American Frontier 📖 Narrative History ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 🔥 Indian Wars 🏹 Native Resistance

Where White Men Fear to Tread

parašė Russell Means • 1995

How a California street kid reclaimed his Lakota identity and led the occupation of Mount Rushmore.

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1 000+

🪶 Lakota Culture ✊ Indigenous Activism 🏫 Boarding School Legacy 🌱 Cultural Reclamation 📜 Treaty Rights

Where White Men Fear to Tread

How a California street kid reclaimed his Lakota identity and led the occupation of Mount Rushmore.

parašė Russell Means 1995 624 puslapiai

4.14

1 000+ įvertinimai

🪶 Lakota Culture ✊ Indigenous Activism 🏫 Boarding School Legacy 🌱 Cultural Reclamation 📜 Treaty Rights

Painted Horses

parašė Malcolm Brooks • 2014

A young archaeologist in 1950s Montana discovers ancient petroglyphs in a canyon a dam will drown.

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🌄 Montana Fiction 🐴 Wild Horse Mustangs 🔬 Archaeological Discovery 🪶 Indigenous Displacement 🏗️ Cost Of Progress

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Painted Horses

A young archaeologist in 1950s Montana discovers ancient petroglyphs in a canyon a dam will drown.

parašė Malcolm Brooks 2014 367 puslapiai

3.50

2 000+ įvertinimai

🌄 Montana Fiction 🐴 Wild Horse Mustangs 🔬 Archaeological Discovery 🪶 Indigenous Displacement 🏗️ Cost Of Progress

The Comanche Empire

parašė Pekka Hämäläinen • 2008

How the Comanches built a nomadic empire that made European colonies into its economic hinterland.

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1 000+

🏹 Native Empires 🏜️ Southwest History 📖 Revisionist History 🧭 Borderlands History 📜 New Indian History

The Comanche Empire

How the Comanches built a nomadic empire that made European colonies into its economic hinterland.

parašė Pekka Hämäläinen 2008 500 puslapiai

4.17

1 000+ įvertinimai

🏹 Native Empires 🏜️ Southwest History 📖 Revisionist History 🧭 Borderlands History 📜 New Indian History

The Mammoth Book of the West

parašė Jon E. Lewis • 1996

Land seized, gold mined, bison slaughtered: how the real West vanished behind the myth.

3.98

137

🏔️ American Frontier 🐂 Westward Expansion 🛤️ Pioneer Migration 💰 Gold Rush California 🐄 Cattle Ranching

The Mammoth Book of the West

Land seized, gold mined, bison slaughtered: how the real West vanished behind the myth.

parašė Jon E. Lewis 1996 544 puslapiai

3.98

137 įvertinimai

🏔️ American Frontier 🐂 Westward Expansion 🛤️ Pioneer Migration 💰 Gold Rush California 🐄 Cattle Ranching

Crooked Hallelujah

parašė Kelli Jo Ford • 2020

A Cherokee girl defies her Holiness church, and the break echoes through four generations of women.

3.47

3 000+

📖 Linked Stories 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond ⛪ Religious Control 🌾 Rural Poverty

Crooked Hallelujah

A Cherokee girl defies her Holiness church, and the break echoes through four generations of women.

parašė Kelli Jo Ford 2020 304 puslapiai

3.47

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📖 Linked Stories 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Generational Saga 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond ⛪ Religious Control 🌾 Rural Poverty

The Pioneers

parašė David McCullough • 2019

Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.

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🇺🇸 Early American Republic 🪓 Frontier Settlement 🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Nation Building 🏕️ Frontier Life

The Pioneers

Before the Constitution, one land deal doubled the country and banned slavery in every future state.

parašė David McCullough 2019 330 puslapiai

3.82

28 000+ įvertinimai

🇺🇸 Early American Republic 🪓 Frontier Settlement 🌄 Westward Expansion 🏛️ Nation Building 🏕️ Frontier Life

Red Nation Rising

parašė Nick Estes • 2021

Every American town is a bordertown, built on stolen land and guarded by scalp hunters' heirs.

4.38

159

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🗳️ Native American Politics ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🚫 Police Abolition 🌱 Decolonization

Red Nation Rising

Every American town is a bordertown, built on stolen land and guarded by scalp hunters' heirs.

parašė Nick Estes 2021 176 puslapiai

4.38

159 įvertinimai

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🗳️ Native American Politics ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🚫 Police Abolition 🌱 Decolonization

Looking for Smoke

parašė K.A. Cobell • 2024

At a Blackfeet powwow, a murdered girl turns four teens into suspects, then into detectives.

3.94

7 000+

🏜️ Reservation Mystery 🔍 Amateur Investigation 🏘️ Killer In The Community 🕯️ Slow-Burn Suspense 🏡 Reservation Life

Looking for Smoke

At a Blackfeet powwow, a murdered girl turns four teens into suspects, then into detectives.

parašė K.A. Cobell 2024 416 puslapiai

3.94

7 000+ įvertinimai

🏜️ Reservation Mystery 🔍 Amateur Investigation 🏘️ Killer In The Community 🕯️ Slow-Burn Suspense 🏡 Reservation Life

Not Stolen

parašė Jeff Fynn-Paul • 2023

Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.

4.13

463

🪶 Native American History 🌎 Settler Colonialism 🔍 Revisionist History ⚖️ Genocide Debate 🏛️ Federal Indian Policy

Not Stolen

Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.

parašė Jeff Fynn-Paul 2023 397 puslapiai

4.13

463 įvertinimai

🪶 Native American History 🌎 Settler Colonialism 🔍 Revisionist History ⚖️ Genocide Debate 🏛️ Federal Indian Policy

The Story Teller

parašė Margaret Coel • 1999

A missing ledger book entangles an Arapaho attorney in a murder and a museum's dark secrets.

4.12

1 000+

🏛️ Legal Mystery 🪶 Reservation Mystery 📜 Missing Artifact 🌿 Cultural Reclamation 📁 Historical Cover-Up

The Story Teller

A missing ledger book entangles an Arapaho attorney in a murder and a museum's dark secrets.

parašė Margaret Coel 1999 241 puslapiai

4.12

1 000+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Legal Mystery 🪶 Reservation Mystery 📜 Missing Artifact 🌿 Cultural Reclamation 📁 Historical Cover-Up

Give Your Heart to the Hawks

parašė Win Blevins • 1973

Three hundred miles from the nearest law, mountain men ruled only themselves. It could not last.

3.98

425

🏜️ American West 🏔️ Mountain Men 🗽 Frontier Individualism 🪓 Wilderness Survival 🤝 Indigenous Encounters

Give Your Heart to the Hawks

Three hundred miles from the nearest law, mountain men ruled only themselves. It could not last.

parašė Win Blevins 1973 336 puslapiai

3.98

425 įvertinimai

🏜️ American West 🏔️ Mountain Men 🗽 Frontier Individualism 🪓 Wilderness Survival 🤝 Indigenous Encounters

The Secret Token

parašė Andrew Lawler • 2018

The Lost Colony assimilated. America built its first origin myth to hide that truth.

3.76

1 000+

🏴 Colonial America 👑 Elizabethan England 🔍 Historical Mysteries 🎭 Myth-Making 🧬 Racial Identity

The Secret Token

The Lost Colony assimilated. America built its first origin myth to hide that truth.

parašė Andrew Lawler 2018 426 puslapiai

3.76

1 000+ įvertinimai

🏴 Colonial America 👑 Elizabethan England 🔍 Historical Mysteries 🎭 Myth-Making 🧬 Racial Identity

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

parašė Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • 2014

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

4.37

20 000+

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

parašė Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2014 320 puslapiai

4.37

20 000+ įvertinimai

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 🪶 Native American History 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought

Trail of Tears

parašė John Ehle • 1988

A written language, a newspaper, a Supreme Court win. None of it stopped the removal.

4.12

4 000+

🏞️ Forced Removal 🪶 Cherokee History 📜 Treaty Betrayal 🔄 Cultural Assimilation 🏛️ Jacksonian America

Trail of Tears

A written language, a newspaper, a Supreme Court win. None of it stopped the removal.

parašė John Ehle 1988 424 puslapiai

4.12

4 000+ įvertinimai

🏞️ Forced Removal 🪶 Cherokee History 📜 Treaty Betrayal 🔄 Cultural Assimilation 🏛️ Jacksonian America

Medicine River

parašė Mary Annette Pember • 2025

A dress with 365 jingles: one Ojibwe woman dancing to heal her mother's boarding-school past.

3.91

2 000+

🏫 Indian Boarding Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔍 Investigative Memoir 🔐 Family Secrets 🪶 Ojibwe Culture

Medicine River

A dress with 365 jingles: one Ojibwe woman dancing to heal her mother's boarding-school past.

parašė Mary Annette Pember 2025 304 puslapiai

3.91

2 000+ įvertinimai

🏫 Indian Boarding Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🔍 Investigative Memoir 🔐 Family Secrets 🪶 Ojibwe Culture

Running Barefoot

parašė Amy Harmon • 2012

A piano prodigy and a half-Navajo boy bond over music, but grief and prejudice separate them.

4.30

19 000+

🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 💔 Grieving Heroine 🏘️ Small Town Prejudice 🌄 Native American Heritage

Running Barefoot

A piano prodigy and a half-Navajo boy bond over music, but grief and prejudice separate them.

parašė Amy Harmon 2012 443 puslapiai

4.30

19 000+ įvertinimai

🔥 Slow Burn Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 💔 Grieving Heroine 🏘️ Small Town Prejudice 🌄 Native American Heritage

The Kingmaker

parašė Kennedy Ryan • 2019

She fought his pipeline. He stole her heart. Years later, she runs his brother's presidential bid.

4.02

26 000+

💔 Second Chance Romance 🏛️ Political Romance ⚡ Enemies To Lovers 🌿 Indigenous Heroine 💰 Billionaire Hero

The Kingmaker

She fought his pipeline. He stole her heart. Years later, she runs his brother's presidential bid.

parašė Kennedy Ryan 2019 344 puslapiai

4.02

26 000+ įvertinimai

💔 Second Chance Romance 🏛️ Political Romance ⚡ Enemies To Lovers 🌿 Indigenous Heroine 💰 Billionaire Hero

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