Indigenous Americans
🥇 01
THE HEART OF EVERYTHING THAT IS
🖋️ Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
🏢 Simon & Schuster
A biography of the influential Sioux leader Red Cloud examines his military prowess and the Plains Indians’ changing way of life.
🥈 02
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON
🖋️ S.C. Gwynne
🏢 Scribner
The story of Quanah Parker, the last chief of the Comanches.
🥉 03
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
🖋️ Dee Brown
🏢 Holt
The settling of the American west, through the eyes of chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Navajo, Sioux, Ute, Cheyenne and other tribes; originally published in 1970.
04
CRAZY HORSE AND CUSTER
🖋️ Stephen Ambrose
🏢 Open Road
The parallel lives of two American warriors in 1876 at the battle of the Little Bighorn.
05
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA
🖋️ Thomas McKenney and James Hall
🏢 Chartwell Books
A three-volume set of artistic and anthropological records; first published between 1836-1844.