Books like A Warrior of the People by Joe Starita

During World II, a Navajo boy named Ned Begay, after learning that his language is deemed useless in a white‑run boarding school, joins the Marines as a Code Talker, using Navajo to transmit secret messages in combat.

Red Cloud, the Sioux warrior‑statesman, achieved the only major victory by an American Indian against U.S. forces during Red Cloud’s War (1866‑1868).

Saul, a young Ojibwa boy, is separated from his family, sent to a brutal off‑reservation boarding school, and finds only hockey as a path to redemption amid racism and trauma.

A biography of the young Omaha Indian woman who became the first Native American woman to graduate from medical school.

A collection of eight romance tales that follow the lives of military heroes as they navigate love, friendship, and the challenges of veteran life, all set within historical contexts.

"From her idealistic youth until the end of her life, Lilli Jahn was a prolific letter writer. A resourceful and strong-minded young woman, she studied medicine in Cologne and in her letters discussed theater, music, literature, art, and religion. She wooed and won her Protestant friend and fellow medical student, Ernst Jahn, by letter, and in 1926 she married him. Together they set up house and a medical practice and started a family." "But in 1933, when Hitler took power, everything changed. Ernst Jahn came under increasing pressure from the local Nazis to divorce his Jewish wife, which he did in 1942. From that moment Lilli and her five children were left unprotected. Arrested and sent to the Breitenau labor camp, Lilli was angry and afraid, but she could at least write and receive letters. Miraculously, almost all her letters to her children and friends have survived, together with many of theirs to her that were smuggled out of Breitenau as Lilli realized she would be sent to perish at Auschwitz." "In these letters, and in the narrative by Martin Doerry, Lilli's grandson, we see the deterioration of Germany under National Socialism through the eyes of an ordinary family. We watch as Lilli's initial optimism begins to crack, and as she tries to run the household and mother her children from a labor camp far away, relying on her twelve-year-old daughter Ilse. Perhaps most movingly of all, we see the children's heroic attempts to save their mother, and their struggle to continue to believe in her return."--BOOK JACKET.