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• Killers of the Flower Moon

  the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

  Grann, David,

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  A true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Native America From 1890 to the Present

  Treuer, David,

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  An anthropologist's chronicle of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present traces the unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention of distinct tribe cultures that assimilated into mainstream life to preserve Native identity.

• Seeing Red

  Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America

  Witgen, Michael John,

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  Telling the stories of traders, missionaries, tribal leaders and territorial governors, Witgen challenges our assumptions about the inevitability of U.S. expansion through the lens of Anishinaabeg resistance.

• An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

  Mays, Kyle,

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  Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, historian Mays explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have struggled for freedom, sometimes together and sometimes apart.

• Our History Is the Future

  Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

  Estes, Nick,

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  In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century.

• Covered With Night

  a Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

  Eustace, Nicole,

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  An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man by two white colonists explores the contest between Native American justice, centered on community, forgiveness, and reparations, and British law, which called for the killers' execution.

• Unworthy Republic

  the Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

  Saunt, Claudio,

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  Drawing on firsthand accounts and government records, Saunt's history of the 1830s forced migration of indigenous populations to west of the Mississippi describes the fraud, intimidation and murder that were used to confiscate Native American land.

• This Land Is Their Land

  the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

  Silverman, David J., 1971-

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  An account of the Plymouth colony’s founding that incorporates the perspectives of Wampanoag witnesses and contributors, documenting the events that led to the creation and violent dissolution of essential peace agreements.

• We Refuse to Forget

  a True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power

  Gayle, Caleb,

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  Two centuries ago, the Creek Nation both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. The U.S. government recognized Creek citizenship in 1866 for its Black members. Yet in the 1970s, tribal leaders revoked Black Creeks' citizenship.

• Yellow Bird

  Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

  Murdoch, Sierra Crane,

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  When a white oil worker disappeared from his worksite on her reservation, Lissa Yellow Bird became obsessed with solving the mystery, reckoning with the legacy of systematic violence and finding something close to redemption.

• Searching for Savanna

  the Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

  Gable, Mona,

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  The horrifying account of the 2017 murder of 22-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind brings to light the overwhelming sexual and physical violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction.

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939-

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  Acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.