Amott, Teresa, & Matthaei, Julie. 1991. I Am the Fire of Time: American Indian Women. In T. Amott & J. Matthaei (Eds.), Race, Gender, and Work: A Multicultural History of Women in the United States (pp. 31–62). Boston: South End.

• A good overview of the history and present situation of American Indian women

​Bordewich, Fergus. 1996. Killing the White Man’s Indian. New York: Doubleday.

• A comprehensive, dispassionate analysis of current problems and future possibilities

Brown, Dee. 1970. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston

• A passionately written, highly readable account of the military defeat and establishment of dominance over American Indians

Deloria, Vine. 1969. Custer Died for Your Sins. New York: Macmillan.

Deloria, Vine. 1970. We Talk, You Listen. New York: Macmillan.

Deloria, Vine. 1995. Red Earth, White Lies. New York: Scribner’s.

• The three major works of the well-known American Indian activist, writer, and professor of Indian studies

Nabakov, Peter (Ed.). 1999. Native American Testimony. New York: Penguin.

• A collection of personal accounts by American Indians from pre-Columbian times to the present day

Treuer, David. 2012. Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life. Atlantic Monthly Press

• A highly personal, scholarly, and deeply reflective account of modern life on the reservation.

Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. 2007. The State of Native Nations: Conditions Under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination. Oxford University Press.

• A comprehensive account of contemporary Native American struggles, featuring the writing of an array of scholars and activists.

Snipp, C. Matthew. 1989. American Indians: The First of This Land. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

• A valuable scholarly study covering a variety of aspects of the American Indian condition