Get to know the history our textbooks didn’t teach us with these recommendations written by or written from the point of view of the Indigenous Peoples’ of the Americas.
Mann offers a groundbreaking study that radically alters readers’ understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.
A collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that has shaped the nation’s destiny and character.
The story of Larry Loyie’s last summer before entering residential school.
Told from the viewpoint of the indigenous, Dunbar-Ortiz shows how policy against the indigenous peoples was genocidal and imperialist, and designed to crush the original inhabitants.
A masterpiece of narrative non-fiction, set around an American crime and the birth of the FBI, a thrilling investigative account of a forgotten moment in history.
The moving memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from a residential school with her spirit intact.
A landmark history–the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.
Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.
A masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural world.
One woman’s account of triumph over a childhood spent in an Indian residential school.