(Part 2) Best native american & aboriginal biographies according to redditors
We found 213 Reddit comments discussing the best native american & aboriginal biographies. We ranked the 62 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
This went on until pretty recently. I spent a little bit of time working on the Pine Ridge Reservation, it's still very much a part of their lives. There's a documentary on the boarding schools called The Thick Dark Fog that's pretty good. Walter Littlemoon also wrote a book, They Called Me Uncivilized. I was talking to him one day and he said that they had made a choice to leave some things out of the book and documentary because there had been a court case in Canada where the mistreatment of First People came to light and some Natives committed suicide after being confronted with those memories again - he didn't want to bring too much up too quickly.
If you're willing to do some digging, you might want to contact the
Department of American Indian Studies
at University of Washington. If anyone knows of good resources for you, they will. That teach that stuff for a living and they know so much they even offer Masters Degrees in American Indian Studies.
I know there's quite a few books on the Native Americans of Washington state. A simple search of Amazon.com should locate them. University library librarian can locate such books too. Public library not likely to have much but might have a book or two on Pacific Northwest Indians.
Finally, Google search results for "Duwamish Tribe"
History page on Duwamish Tribe website (contact info there too).
Wikipedia page on the Duwamish.
Browsing Amazon turns up these books;
Chief Leschi, War Chief of the Battle of Seattle and the Puget Sound War, 1855–56
Native Seattle: Histories of the Crossing-Over place
Chief Seattle and the Town that Took his Name
The Indians of Puget Sound: The Notebooks of Myron Eels (eyewitness accounts of Indian life from 1874-1907)
The Mythology of Southern Puget Sound: Legends Shared by Tribal Elders
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005ERIRHW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_GNs4BbFE6XRTQ
Historically, the Comanche people definitely were brutal. They were horseback masters, and rode hours a day (women included). A consequence was that a lot of them became infertile. So, the tribe would often kidnap outsiders in order to impregnate them. To avoid revenge, the Comanche often murdered the family of the woman they kidnapped, in astoundingly brutal ways (stringing up between wagons and starting a fire beneath them, for example).
Check out the book Empire of the Summer Moon. It details firsthand accounts of the tribe.
Obviously, nowadays the Comanche are a peaceful people, but a couple hundred years ago, they had a reputation for their brutality, on top of being the world's best horseback warriors with a bow-and-arrow. Fascinating read.
I wouldn't limit your search to fiction.
Do not miss the following:
1. Captured By The Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870
The title is self-explanatory. There is some serious brutality in these stories.
2. North American Indians by George Catlin
The accounts of a portrait painter who traveled out to different native groups from 1831-1837 to paint them and document their ways before they were destroyed. It contains some truly incredible stories and is a valuable reference.
3. The Falcon by John Tanner
John Tanner was captured by natives as a small child and lived with them for several decades, and had a hell of a unique experience.
4. The Journals of Lewis & Clark.
Very interesting encounters between the expedition and wildly different groups of natives.
After posting this, I found this deal.
This is a three volume set by Dee Brown that includes
For $4.99. I have not read The Fetterman Massacre and Creek Mary's Blood, but for $2 more, it seems like a great deal.
Trail of Tears - the Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
For something more contemporary, because the treatment of American Indians is still very much a problem, take a look at Where white men fear to tread - The Autobiography of Russell Means
Brace yourself, the book pulls no punches. Here's another that's fantastic, written by the guy that wrote Band of Brothers. It's just as good.
https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Horse-Custer-Parallel-American-ebook/dp/B00KQZY19A
'They Called Me Number One' by Bev Sellars
https://www.amazon.com/They-Called-Number-One-Residential-ebook/dp/B00CST3NH8
The book is a first hand account of attending a residential school in near Williams Lake in BC. It goes into the horrid abuse and how it affected the author and her community.
The Chikamauga were a band of Cherokee, Upper Creek, and some Choctaw & Chickasaw warriors that banded together to fight the growing threat of settler expansion in the area of what is now Muscle Shoals, AL all the way to eastern Tennessee and North Georgia, back in the late 1700's and early 19 century.
This book tells of Chief Doublehead and his associated tribesmen that fought against the settlers, including the raids on many small forts and townships. Casualties include obvious scalping, the consumption of two human hearts, and a trail of blood across the American Southeast.
Doublehead Last Chickamauga Cherokee Chief https://www.amazon.com/dp/1934610674/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_DgN2wbJ9NKAK7
Everybody talks of the Western Native Americans and their tribal confederations, but some people don't know about the wars and skirmishes that happened right before the Trail of Tears and relocation period.
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American Warrior: The True Story of a Legendary Ranger, it's by a guy that my step-dad was friends with / served with in Vietnam.
Here is the book that this excerpt is from.
http://www.amazon.ca/Broken-Circle-legacy-Residential-Schools/dp/192661366X
A decent book-length biography: http://www.amazon.ca/Pegahmagabow-Life-Long-Warrior-Adrian-Hayes/dp/0978498291
If you're interested, there's a whole book about this issue and the resolution of it: Ishi's Brain.
The best place to get information about native and indigenous Americans is to go to the source. Books by native/indigenous Americans using their own voices to tell stories about encountering Europeans in North America for the first time, as well as talking about their own culture and traditions can be found here:
Giving Thanks
The Very First Americans
Native American History for Kids
Getting to Know the Native American Indian Tribes
1621 - National Geographic
Four Seasons of Corn
Author page for Joseph Bruchac (His Squanto book is "not recommended" but he is an authorized writer of native American stories)
American Indians In Children's Lit - Thanksgiving Books to Avoid (there is a comment on this list that shares several titles and authors that may also be beneficial to this subject).
Here's a book I recommend about the people and time
period. Excellent. http://www.amazon.com/Sheheke-Mandan-Indian-Diplomat-The-Jefferson/dp/1560372559