Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
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Book
Poet warrior : a memoir [2021]
Joy Harjo
White magic : essays [2021]
Elissa Washuta
Why we serve : Native Americans in the United… [2020]
Alexandra N Harris
A history of my brief body [2020]
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Mamaskatch : a Cree coming of age [2018]
Darrel J McLeod
Thunder in the mountains : Chief Joseph, Oliver… [2017]
Daniel J Sharfstein
Blood moon : an American epic of war and… [2018]
John Sedgwick
Heart berries : a memoir [2018]
Terese Marie Mailhot
Our history is the future : Standing Rock versus… [2019]
Nick Estes
The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America… [2019]
David Treuer
Blood brothers : the story of the strange… [2017]
Deanne Stillman
Black Elk : the life of an American visionary [2016]
Joe Jackson
Everything you wanted to know about Indians but… [2021]
Anton Treuer
Native land : sagas of the Indian Americas [1986]
Jamake Highwater
We are the land : a history of Native California… [2021]
Damon B Akins
Where the lightning strikes : the lives of… [2006]
Peter Nabokov
The sacred wisdom of the American Indians [2011]
Larry J Zimmerman
Tales of the plumed serpent : Aztec, Inca, and… [2000]
Diana Ferguson
The spiritual legacy of the American Indian :… [2007]
Joseph Epes Brown
The other slavery : the uncovered story of… [2016]
Andrés Reséndez
Modern native feasts : healthy, innovative,… [2013]
Andrew George
Bawaajimo : a dialect of dreams in Anishinaabe… [2014]
Margaret Noodin
Crazy brave : a memoir [2012]
The woman who watches over the world : a native… [2001]
Linda Hogan
One Native life [2008]
Richard Wagamese
Medicine walk [2015]
For Joshua : an Ojibway father teaches his son [2002]
Sacred legacy : Edward S. Curtis and the North… [2000]
Edward S Curtis
Do all Indians live in tipis? : questions and… [2007]
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Native American trail marker trees : marking… [2011]
Dennis Downes
The first North Americans : an archaeological… [2011]
Brian M Fagan
Living nations, living words : an anthology of… [2021]
The longest trail : writings on American Indian… [2015]
Alvin M Josephy
The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of… [2013]
Thomas King
Native American testimony : a chronicle of… [1999]
All Indians do not live in teepees (or casinos) [2011]
Catherine C Robbins
Slavery in Indian country : the changing face of… [2010]
Christina Snyder
Embracing fry bread : confessions of a wannabe [2012]
Roger L Welsch
The first Americans : in pursuit of… [2002]
J M Adovasio
Wounded knee [2001]
Neil Waldman
Wounded knee : party politics and the road to an… [2010]
Heather Cox Richardson
Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American… [1974]
Dee Alexander Brown
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian… [2021]
American carnage : Wounded Knee, 1890 [2014]
Jerome A Greene
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian… [1971]
Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey [2017]
David Bunnell
Tragic encounters : the people's history of… [2015]
Page Smith
Ojibwa warrior : Dennis Banks and the rise of… [2004]
Dennis Banks
American holocaust : the conquest of the New… [1992]
David E Stannard
500 nations : an illustrated history of North… [1994]
Touch the earth : a self-portrait of Indian… [1971]
T C McLuhan
Native roots : how the Indians enriched America [2021]
J McIver Weatherford
Eating fire, tasting blood : breaking the great… [2006]
MariJo Moore
Chippewa customs. [1929]
Frances Densmore
Chippewa customs, by Frances Densmore. [1929]
The Potawatomis : keepers of the fire [1978]
R David Edmunds
The Trail of Tears across Missouri [1996]
Joan Gilbert
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears [2007]
Theda Perdue
American betrayal : Cherokee patriots and the… [2011]
Daniel Blake Smith
Driven West : Andrew Jackson's trail of tears to… [2010]
A J Langguth
Trail of tears : the rise and fall of the… [1989]
John Ehle
Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and… [2010]
S C Gwynne
Yellow dirt : a poisoned land and the betrayal… [2011]
Judy Pasternak
Schoolcraft's Ojibwa lodge stories : life on the… [1962]
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Rethinking Hopi ethnography [1998]
Peter M Whiteley
Indian wars : the campaign for the American West… [2006]
Bill Yenne
The earth is weeping : the epic story of the… [2016]
Peter Cozzens
Rez life : an Indian's journey through… [2012]
Holding our world together : Ojibwe women and… [2011]
Brenda J Child
Peoples of the Inland Sea : Native Americans and… [2018]
David Andrew Nichols
Native Americans of the Great Lakes [2000]
Stuart A Kallen
The Indians of Hungry Hollow [2004]
Bill Dunlop
Masters of empire : Great Lakes Indians and the… [2015]
Michael A McDonnell
Lewis and Clark through Indian eyes [2006]
The lost world of the Old Ones : discoveries in… [2015]
David Roberts
Unreal city : Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the… [2014]
Judith Nies
The last days of the Incas [2007]
Kim MacQuarrie
THE SENTENCE
LOUISE ERDRICH
The removed : a novel [2021]
Brandon Hobson
Too much lip : a novel [2018]
Melissa Lucashenko
Winter counts : a novel [2020]
David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Crooked hallelujah [2020]
Kelli Jo Ford
The only good Indians : a novel [2020]
Stephen Graham Jones
This town sleeps : a novel [2020]
Dennis E Staples
The night watchman : a novel [2020]
Louise Erdrich
A madness of sunshine [2019]
Nalini Singh
There there [2019]
Tommy Orange
Terra Nullius [2017]
Claire G Coleman
Chickadee [2012]
The round house [2012]
Shadow tag [2010]
Love medicine [2009]
The plague of doves [2008]
Four souls [2004]
The painted drum [2005]
My heart is a chainsaw [2021]
Night of the mannequins [2020]
Mapping the interior [2017]
Mongrels : a novel [2016]
The beadworkers : stories [2019]
Beth H Piatote
Trail of lightning [2018]
Rebecca Roanhorse