Allen, Paula Gunn, ed. Studies in American Indian Literature: Critical Essays and Course
Designs. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1983. [Emphasis on oral tradition, feminist and women’s literature, contemporary literature, and pedagogy.]

Axtell, James. Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2000. [Pre- 1776 analysis of Indigenous and European interaction focusing on socioeconomic and cultural exchange. Analyzes the impact of trade, disease, social contexts and military confrontations.]

Ballantine, Betty and Ian Ballantine, eds. The Native Americans: An Illustrated History. North Dighton, MA: JG Press: World Publications Group, 2001. [The authors are prominent scholars who are writing more for a public audience, so it is a bit more accessible. What sets the Illustrated History apart from other texts is that the illustrations are extraordinary, particularly the reproductions of really powerful artwork by contemporary Native American artists.]

Brown, Jennifer S.H. and Elizabeth Vibert. Reading Beyond Words: Contexts for Native History. Rev. ed. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2003. [Critical analysis of Native North American history and Native-European encounters spanning over 500 years. Revised edition includes three new essays.]

Calloway, Colin G. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. [Comprehensive text for native American history survey course. Includes documents spanning from pre 1492 through the 1990s, with brief introductions. Also offers timelines, references, and suggested readings. Bedford/St. martin’s provides a companion website with links to primary sources and online resources. ]

Champagne, Duane, ed. Chronology of Native North American History, from Pre-Columbian
Times to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994. [Time line with photographs and other illustrations; concludes with brief quotations and actions of American Indian Orators; and brief quotations from major historical documents.]

Champagne, Duane, ed. The Native North American Almanac: A Reference Work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Inc.; 1994. [Intended for upper elementary and secondary education. Provides and comprehensive account of historical and contemporary issues in the U.S. and Canada. Includes suggested readings, a glossary, and directories. Provides information on place names, tribal collections, museums, Native newspapers, cultural events, films and videos.]

Champagne, Duane, ed. Native America: Portrait of the Peoples. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1994. [Comprehensive overview of Native North American cultures and history organized by region. Also includes chapters on activism, religion, the arts, and health.]

Churchill, Ward ed. Critical Issues in Native North America 1990. 197 pages. [A collection of essays by Native peoples regarding issues facing Indigenous nations in the U.S. and Canada. Focuses on lands and resources, cultural assimilation policies, and native resistance. Accessible for high school classes.]

Debo, Angie. A History of the Indians of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1970. [Covers the whole history to the mid-1960s with a short addendum on some events in the 1970s but excluding Wounded Knee and includes a selective bibliography.]

Deloria, Vine Jr. American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1985. [Eleven essays regarding the historical context and impact of Federal policy on Indigenous nations. Critical analysis of policy and self-determination as related to economic, social, and cultural issues.]

_____. Spirit & Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader. Edited by Barbara Deloria, Kristen
Foehner, and Sam Scinta. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 1999. [Collection of Deloria’s essays on a wide range of topics, including epistemology, policy, and education. Accessible to those unfamiliar with Deloria’s work. Also includes a forward by Wilma Mankiller.]

Deloria, Phil and Neal Salisbury, eds. Companion to American Indian History. Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2004.

Fixico, Donald. Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century. Greenwood Press, 2006. [Fourteen chapters include discussion of  education; leisure activities and sports; reservation life; spirituality, rituals and customs; health, medicine and cures; urban life; women's roles and family; bingos, casinos and gaming.]

Grinde, Donald and Bruce Johansen. Ecocide of Native America: Environmental
Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples. Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light, 1998.[Examines Native ecological practices and the effects of colonization on the environment. Also investigates contemporary crises and Indigenous responses. ]

Hirschfelder, Arlene and Martha Kreipe Montaño. The Native American Almanac: A Portrait of Native America Today. New York, NY: Prentice Hall General Reference; 1993. [Accessible for a high school audience. Focuses especially on the impact of federal policy on legal and social status. Appendices list tribes by state, reservations, rancherias, colonies and historic Native lands. Includes a chronology of Indian treaties, landmarks, and history from 1492-1992.]

Hoxie, Frederick E. and Peter Iverson. Indians in American History: An Introduction. Wheeling,
IL: Harlan Davidson, 1998. [Integrates Indigenous peoples into the conventional U.S. history narrative. Includes fourteen essays by fifteen authors who speak from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.]

Hurtado, Albert L. and Peter Iverson. Major Problems in American Indian History: Documents
and Essays. 2nd ed. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Co., 2000. [Edited collection of essays and documents recommended for both introductory surveys and upper division courses.]

Iverson, Peter. “We Are Still Here”: American Indians in the Twentieth Century. Wheeling,
IL: Harlan Davidson, 1998. [Begins with Wounded Knee and offers a broad overview of Native communities in the United States. Focuses on federal policy, identity, and tribal leadership as related to education, local economies, and health care.]

Jaimes, M. Annette. State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance. Boston:
South End Press, 1992. [This is a classic text for all who want to understand the problems confronted by Native people in North America. It includes treaty rights and international status, self-governance, U.S. repression, spirituality and religious freedom, as well as resource development.]

Josephy, Alvin, ed. America In 1492: The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of
Columbus. New York: Knopf (Distributed by Random House), 1992. [Collection of 14 essays that explore the diversity of Indigenous North Americans prior to 1492. Includes and afterward by Vine Deloria, Jr. and list of suggested readings.]

_____ Now that the Buffalo’s Gone: A Study of Today’s American Indians. New York, 1984. [Topics covered include stereotypes, water rights, retaining spirituality, and the quest for self-determination.]

Kehoe, Alice Beck. North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1981. Mexico and Canada. Anthropological in scope and includes thorough bibliographies and suggested readings lists. ]

Lobo, Susan and Steve Talbot. Native American Voices: A Reader. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 2001. [Contains interdisciplinary selection of scholarly articles, journalistic selections, oral history, songs, poetry, and other documents. Maps and original artwork provide further context for the selections, as well as an extensive tribal name index and lists of key terms. Adaptable to high school courses.]

Marks, Paula M. In a Barren Land: The American Indian Quest for Cultural Survival, 1607 to the Present. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999. [Broad overview with an emphasis on Indian Removal and the West. ]

Martin, Joel. The Land Looks After Us: A History of Native American Religion. Oxford University Press [Brief overview of Indigenous religious history. Intended for a young adult audience and recommended for high school courses.]

Meyer, John M. American Indians and U.S. Politics: A Companion Reader. Westport, CT:
Praeger, 2002. [Designed to be incorporated into introductory government courses. Addresses contemporary issues such as Indian fishing rights and gaming casinos, as well as questions of sovereignty related to the U. S. Constitution, the structure of federalism, citizenship, and civil liberties.]

Nabokov, Peter, ed. Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from
Prophecy to the Present, 1492-1992. New York: Viking, 1991. [Series documents, is a history of Native American and white relations spanning 500 years. Includes numerous photographs.]

O'Brien, Sharon. American Indian Tribal Governments. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. [Survey of traditional and contemporary tribal governments. Accessible to high school classes.]

Olsen, James S. and Raymond Wilson. Native Americans in the Twentieth Century. University of Illinois, 1984. [Concise and comprehensive history beginning in 1890. primary emphasis on  U. S. federal policy.]

Parman, Donald L. Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1994. [Summarizes twentieth-century Indian history and discusses the subject in the context of regional development with a focus on impact of U. S. federal policy.]

Rawls, James J. Chief Red Fox Is Dead: A History of Native Americans Since 1945. Forth Worth: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1996. [Broad synthesis of contemporary political, economic, social, and cultural history of Native Americans in the United States.]

Roemer, Kenneth M. Native American Writers of the United States. Detroit: Gale Research,
1997. [Collection of essays, biographical information, and bibliographies on over fifty American Indian writers. Focus is on contemporary authors and includes an introductory essay on American Indian literature as well as  a list of further readings.]

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic
Review, and Selected Bibliography. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1990. [Contains overview of literature and critical analysis from 1970s and 1980s. Helpful bibliography of Indigenous oral and written histories.]

Shoemaker, Nancy. American Indians. Malden: MA, Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
[Collection of essays accompanied by primary sources. Organized chronologically from pre-Columbian America through to contemporary activism. ]

Sturtevant, William S. and Colin F. Taylor, eds. The Native Americans: The Indigenous People
of North America. London: Salamander, 2003. [Collection of essays focused on 9 geographical regions in the United States.] 

Thornton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: Population History Since 1492.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. [Compares various scholarly approaches to Indigenous populations. The author considers the devastation caused by ‘Old World’ diseases, wars with European settlers and the impact of Western removal on the Indian populace. Thornton also reviews contemporary Native American population gains and the increasing urbanization of this group as a whole in the 20th century.]

Trafzer, Clifford. As Long as the Grass Shall Grow and the Rivers Flow. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. [Comprehensive and thorough overview of Native American history. Accessible narrative that incorporates oral history and cultural studies.]

Trigger, Bruce G. and Wilcomb E. Washburn eds. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples
of the Americas. Vol. 1. North America.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. [A comprehensive history of the native peoples of North America to the present. Describes how Indigenous peoples have dealt with the environmental diversity of North America and have responded to the different European colonial regimes and national governments.]

Wearne, Phillip. Return of the Indian: Conquest and Revival in the Americas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. [An overview of the history and position of Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas from pre-Columbus organization of tribes to modern human and civil rights issues.]

Wright, Ronald. Stolen Continents: The Americas Through Indian Eyes Since 1492. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. [Presents a parallel study of Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois
Indians through three chronological periods:  Invasion, Resistance, and “Rebirth”.]