Native American Biography (nonfiction)
1. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating β 99,681 ratings 2. 
Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
by:
John G. Neihardt
4.12 avg rating β 18,419 ratings 
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Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means
by:
Russell Means
4.14 avg rating β 1,372 ratings 6. 
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement 4.23 avg rating β 4,284 ratings
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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
by:
Theodora Kroeber
4.09 avg rating β 1,595 ratings 11. 
Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy
by:
Kent Nerburn
4.32 avg rating β 1,234 ratings 12. 
Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement
by:
Banks
4.35 avg rating β 405 ratings 
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Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots
by:
Yvette Melanson
3.80 avg rating β 281 ratings 16. 
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of my Ancestors
by:
Louise Erdrich
4.12 avg rating β 1,784 ratings 
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The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
by:
Bob Drury
4.14 avg rating β 6,290 ratings 
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
by:
Chester Nez
4.26 avg rating β 8,401 ratings 
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I Am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism
by:
Lee Maracle
4.33 avg rating β 691 ratings 
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The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing 4.02 avg rating β 1,319 ratings
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Out of the Depths: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia 4.58 avg rating β 243 ratings
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Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (The Lamar Series in Western History)
by:
Don C. Talayesva
3.77 avg rating β 155 ratings 32. 
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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
by:
Steve Sheinkin
4.18 avg rating β 3,175 ratings 35. 
Dying in Indian Country: A Family Journey from Self-destruction to Opposing Tribal Sovereignty
by:
Beth Ward
3.79 avg rating β 48 ratings 
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Here, Now, and Always: Voices of the First Peoples of the Southwest
by:
Rina Swentzell
4.29 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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Salt of the Red Earth: A Century of Wit and Wisdom from Oklahoma's Elders 4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
by:
Steve Inskeep
3.93 avg rating β 1,828 ratings 
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Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
by:
Velma Wallis
4.06 avg rating β 324 ratings 43. 
Half-Sun on the Columbia: A Biography of Chief Moses (Volume 80) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
by:
Robert H. Ruby
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings 
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They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School (North American Indian Prose Award) 3.87 avg rating β 125 ratings
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Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom
by:
Thom Hatch
3.89 avg rating β 88 ratings 47. 
Wise Women: From Pocahontas To Sarah Winnemucca, Remarkable Stories Of Native American Trailblazers
by:
Erin H. Turner
3.75 avg rating β 44 ratings 48. 
Without Reserve: Stories from Urban Natives
by:
Lynda Shorten
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 
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Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
by:
Matt Dembicki
3.55 avg rating β 2,605 ratings 
52. 
Derivation Incognita: A Comprehensive Study into the Peopling of America
by:
Diogenes Vindex
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 6 ratings 52. 
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Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
by:
Kent Nerburn
4.39 avg rating β 6,519 ratings 
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Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat
by:
Paula Gunn Allen
3.35 avg rating β 156 ratings 59. 
Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers--Medicine Women of the Plains
by:
Mark St. Pierre
4.16 avg rating β 153 ratings 59. 
Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence
by:
Teri C. McLuhan
4.35 avg rating β 586 ratings 
64. 
The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai Indian
by:
Mike Burns
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings 65. 
War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire 3.69 avg rating β 77 ratings
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Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
by:
David Treuer
3.91 avg rating β 2,603 ratings 67. 
Sequoyah (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol. 16) (Volume 16)
by:
Grant Foreman
3.77 avg rating β 26 ratings 
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The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash
by:
Johanna Brand
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 67 ratings 71. 
Muscogee Daughter: My Sojourn to the Miss America Pageant
by:
Susan Supernaw
4.18 avg rating β 11 ratings 
77. ![Kwa-Hoo-Sha-Ha-Ke [Flying Eagle]: American Indian Warrior Hero. A Glimpse into the Life of Leonard Bearskin, Chief of the Wyandotte Nation](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1410813954i/23213938._SX100_.jpg)
Kwa-Hoo-Sha-Ha-Ke [Flying Eagle]: American Indian Warrior Hero. A Glimpse into the Life of Leonard Bearskin, Chief of the Wyandotte Nation liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Celebration of Being: Photographs of the Hopi and Navajo
by:
Susanne Page
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 
80. 
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn 4.04 avg rating β 11,913 ratings
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Long Shadows: Indian Leaders Standing In The Path Of Manifest Destiny, 1600 1900
by:
Jack Jackson
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 95. 
Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir (Volume 57) (Sun Tracks)
by:
Ernestine Hayes
3.88 avg rating β 586 ratings 95. 
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Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
by:
Herman Lehmann
4.17 avg rating β 4,963 ratings 99. 
How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family
by:
Peter Nabokov
3.79 avg rating β 70 ratings 