Books like The Heart of Everything that Is by Bob Drury

A comprehensive account of late nineteenth‑century Native American history in the American West, focusing on the Wounded Knee Massacre and the experiences of many tribal nations.

A poetic recounting of a Native American dance that symbolizes the restoration of a lost world.

An inspiring true story of a WWII pilot’s survival, resilience, and redemption, examined through detailed battlefield context and human courage.

It's the mid-1960's, and everyone is fighting back. Black Americans are fighting for civil rights, the counterculture is trying to subvert the Vietnam War, and women are fighting for their liberation. Indians were fighting, too, though it's a fight too few have documented, and even fewer remember. At the time, newspapers and television broadcasts were filled with images of Indian activists staging dramatic events such as the seizure of Alcatraz in 1969, the storming of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building on the eve of Nixon's re-election in 1972, and the American Indian Movement (AIM)-supported seizure of Wounded Knee by the Oglala Sioux in 1973. Like a Hurricane puts these events into historical context and provides one of the first narrative accounts of that momentous period. Unlike most other books written about American Indians, this book does not seek to persuade readers that government polices were cruel and misguided. Nor is it told from the perspective of outsiders looking in. Written by two American Indians, Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior, Like a Hurricane is a gripping account of how for a brief, but brilliant, season Indians strategized to change the course and tone of American Indian-U.S. government interaction. Unwaveringly honest, it analyzes not only the period's successes but also its failures.

A diary of a twelve‑year‑old Sioux girl attending a government boarding school in Pennsylvania in 1880, revealing her struggle to aid her people amid cultural displacement.

“Reads like a romance . . . not the least interesting part being the traditions and old stories, retold with simplicity and real charm.” — Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: History (H.W. Wilson) 1929

A collection of short stories exploring the experiences of contemporary American Indians, focusing on their customs, traditions, and daily life.

This is a beautiful illustration of the text of "Home on the Range." It includes author's notes about the history of this song and and glossary of terms and animals referenced in the text and represented in the illustrations.