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1) The heart of everything that is: the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend

Author

Drury, Bob

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#1 on the Indigenous Americans list for 2016-01-10.

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Draws on Red Cloud's autobiography, which was lost for nearly a hundred years, to present the story of the great Oglala Sioux chief who was the only Plains Indian to defeat the United States Army in a war.

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3) Bury my heart at Wounded Knee: an Indian history of the American West

Author

Brown, Dee

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#3 on the Indigenous Americans list for 2016-01-10.

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The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal).
First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee...

4) Crazy Horse and Custer: the parallel lives of two American warriors

Author

Ambrose, Stephen E

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#4 on the Indigenous Americans list for 2016-01-10.

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A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever...