Recommended booklist for Indigenous Studies:
By Nicky Kay Michael, PhD
Intro to AIS:
- Vine Deloria, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, 978-0806121291
- Anton Treuer, Red Lake Ojibwe
Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, 9780873518611
- David Treuer, Red Lake Ojibwe
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, 978-0399573194
Indigenous Traditional Knowledge
- Robin Wall Kimmerer, Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, 978-1571313560
- Ella Deloria, born on the Yankton and grew up in a prominent family on the Standing Rock reservation
Waterlily, 978-0803219045
Resistance and Empowerment:
- Paul Chaat Smith, Comanche, Robert Allen Warrior, Osage
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, 978-1565844025
Boarding Schools:
- Brenda Child, Red Lake Ojibwe
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, 9780803264052
- David Wallace Adams
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928, 978-0700629602
Social and Environmental Justice
- Nick Estes, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, 978-1788737296
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Indigenous Americas)
- Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Colville Confederated Tribes
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, 978-0807028360
Economic Justice
- Edgar Villanueva , Jennifer Buffett, et al., Lumbee Tribe
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance, 978-1523097890
Tribal Government and Development
- Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
The State of the Native Nations: Conditions under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination Illustrated Edition, 978-0195301267
- Sharon O’Brien
American Indian Tribal Governments, 978-0806125640
- Cora Voyageur (Editor), Laura Brearley (Editor), Brian Calliou (Editor)
Restorying Indigenous Leadership: Wise Practices in Community Development, 978-1894773683
