أمريكي أصلي

تنبض الحياة المعاصرة للأمريكيين الأصليين بإيقاعات التقاليد القديمة المنسوجة في الواقع المعاصر، من ملاعب كرة السلة في المحميات إلى غرف العمليات في المستشفيات. تُلقي هذه القصص الشخصية المؤثرة والروايات الثقافية الضوء على صمود مجتمعات السكان الأصليين وحكمتهم وتطورهم المستمر في أمريكا اليوم.

أمريكي أصلي ملخصات الكتب

Dancing on Coals

بقلم Ellen O'Connell • 2011

An Apache warrior hates the white heiress he is sworn to protect. Survival demands more.

4.15

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🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🌍 Cross-Cultural Romance ⏳ Slow Burn Romance 🏜️ American West

Dancing on Coals

An Apache warrior hates the white heiress he is sworn to protect. Survival demands more.

بقلم Ellen O'Connell 2011 320 صفحة

4.15

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🔥 Enemies To Lovers 🏕️ Forced Proximity 🌍 Cross-Cultural Romance ⏳ Slow Burn Romance 🏜️ American West

American Holocaust

بقلم David E. Stannard • 1992

Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.

4.34

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💀 Colonial Genocide 📖 Genocide Studies ✝️ Religious Violence 🔗 Dehumanization 🏚️ Land Dispossession

American Holocaust

Before 1492, the Americas held more people than Europe. What followed erased 90 percent of them.

بقلم David E. Stannard 1992 408 صفحة

4.34

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💀 Colonial Genocide 📖 Genocide Studies ✝️ Religious Violence 🔗 Dehumanization 🏚️ Land Dispossession

The Last Stand

بقلم Nathaniel Philbrick • 2010

Custer chased glory; Sitting Bull saw it coming. The collision and the myth it made.

4.05

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🪖 Military History 🏞️ American Frontier 🏹 Native American History 🛡️ Indian Wars 🎖️ Military Leadership

The Last Stand

Custer chased glory; Sitting Bull saw it coming. The collision and the myth it made.

بقلم Nathaniel Philbrick 2010 466 صفحة

4.05

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🪖 Military History 🏞️ American Frontier 🏹 Native American History 🛡️ Indian Wars 🎖️ Military Leadership

Ceremony

بقلم Leslie Marmon Silko • 1977

To heal his mind and the land, a war-haunted Laguna veteran undertakes a ceremonial quest.

3.84

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🎖️ Post-War Trauma 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 📣 Storytelling As Resistance 🕯️ Spiritual Healing 🌍 Reconnection To Land

Ceremony

To heal his mind and the land, a war-haunted Laguna veteran undertakes a ceremonial quest.

بقلم Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 262 صفحة

3.84

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🎖️ Post-War Trauma 🌌 Indigenous Cosmology 📣 Storytelling As Resistance 🕯️ Spiritual Healing 🌍 Reconnection To Land

Fire Exit

بقلم Morgan Talty • 2024

Separated by a river, a father watches his Native daughter grow up under another man's name.

3.60

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🎭 Literary Family Drama 🪶 Indigenous Identity 🩸 Blood Quantum 🤫 Secret Parentage 🛌 Caregiver Burden

Fire Exit

Separated by a river, a father watches his Native daughter grow up under another man's name.

بقلم Morgan Talty 2024 243 صفحة

3.60

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🎭 Literary Family Drama 🪶 Indigenous Identity 🩸 Blood Quantum 🤫 Secret Parentage 🛌 Caregiver Burden

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

بقلم Meriwether Lewis • 2005

Starvation, rapids, and tribal diplomacy: the raw journal that built an American myth.

3.93

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🏞️ Westward Expansion 🗄️ Primary Source Journal 🧭 Exploration Narratives 🌿 Natural History 🤝 Native Diplomacy

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Starvation, rapids, and tribal diplomacy: the raw journal that built an American myth.

بقلم Meriwether Lewis 2005 588 صفحة

3.93

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🏞️ Westward Expansion 🗄️ Primary Source Journal 🧭 Exploration Narratives 🌿 Natural History 🤝 Native Diplomacy

Two Old Women

بقلم Velma Wallis • 1993

Abandoned in the Alaskan winter, two old women draw on forgotten skills to survive.

4.09

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❄️ Arctic Survival 👵 Elderly Protagonists 🫂 Found Family 💚 Community Healing 🔗 Intergenerational Bonds

Two Old Women

Abandoned in the Alaskan winter, two old women draw on forgotten skills to survive.

بقلم Velma Wallis 1993 140 صفحة

4.09

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❄️ Arctic Survival 👵 Elderly Protagonists 🫂 Found Family 💚 Community Healing 🔗 Intergenerational Bonds

We Survived the Night

بقلم Julian Brave NoiseCat • 2025

A newborn found in a residential school incinerator. His son's memoir of survival and return.

4.27

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📖 Indigenous Memoir 🏫 Residential Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌎 Native Sovereignty 🗣️ Oral Storytelling

We Survived the Night

A newborn found in a residential school incinerator. His son's memoir of survival and return.

بقلم Julian Brave NoiseCat 2025 432 صفحة

4.27

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📖 Indigenous Memoir 🏫 Residential Schools 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🌎 Native Sovereignty 🗣️ Oral Storytelling

Lizards Hold the Sun

بقلم Dani Trujillo • 2023

On a remote First Nation, a grieving archaeologist falls for the architect who can't stay.

3.87

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🏗️ Workplace Romance 🏘️ Small Town Romance 💔 Grieving Heroine 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏺 Cultural Preservation

Lizards Hold the Sun

On a remote First Nation, a grieving archaeologist falls for the architect who can't stay.

بقلم Dani Trujillo 2023 266 صفحة

3.87

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🏗️ Workplace Romance 🏘️ Small Town Romance 💔 Grieving Heroine 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏺 Cultural Preservation

Shutter

بقلم Ramona Emerson • 2022

A Navajo forensic photographer sees the dead. One ghost's demand for justice unravels a conspiracy.

3.78

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🕵️ Paranormal Mystery 🔬 Forensic Investigation 👻 Reluctant Medium 💔 Generational Trauma 📖 Literary Horror

Shutter

A Navajo forensic photographer sees the dead. One ghost's demand for justice unravels a conspiracy.

بقلم Ramona Emerson 2022 296 صفحة

3.78

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🕵️ Paranormal Mystery 🔬 Forensic Investigation 👻 Reluctant Medium 💔 Generational Trauma 📖 Literary Horror

The Devil Is a Southpaw

بقلم Brandon Hobson • 2025

When a Native boy vanishes from juvenile hall, his rival spends decades confessing his envy.

3.05

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🏚️ Small Town Gothic 🪶 Indigenous Storytelling 🎨 Artist Rivalry 🔒 Juvenile Detention 💔 Institutional Trauma

The Devil Is a Southpaw

When a Native boy vanishes from juvenile hall, his rival spends decades confessing his envy.

بقلم Brandon Hobson 2025 352 صفحة

3.05

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🏚️ Small Town Gothic 🪶 Indigenous Storytelling 🎨 Artist Rivalry 🔒 Juvenile Detention 💔 Institutional Trauma

The Other Trail of Tears

بقلم Mary Stockwell • 2014

The Cherokee weren't first. Ohio's tribes walked a forgotten removal trail decades earlier.

4.16

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🏛️ Jacksonian Era 🏞️ Frontier History 🧭 Westward Expansion 📜 Broken Treaties 🛤️ Forced Removal

The Other Trail of Tears

The Cherokee weren't first. Ohio's tribes walked a forgotten removal trail decades earlier.

بقلم Mary Stockwell 2014 400 صفحة

4.16

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🏛️ Jacksonian Era 🏞️ Frontier History 🧭 Westward Expansion 📜 Broken Treaties 🛤️ Forced Removal

A Land So Strange

بقلم Andrés Reséndez • 2007

Four shipwrecked conquistadors crossed America as slaves turned healers, with thousands following.

4.11

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🇪🇸 Spanish Conquest ⛵ Age Of Exploration 🏕️ Survival Narratives ⛓️ Captivity Narratives 💀 Expedition Disasters

A Land So Strange

Four shipwrecked conquistadors crossed America as slaves turned healers, with thousands following.

بقلم Andrés Reséndez 2007 336 صفحة

4.11

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🇪🇸 Spanish Conquest ⛵ Age Of Exploration 🏕️ Survival Narratives ⛓️ Captivity Narratives 💀 Expedition Disasters

A Different Mirror

بقلم Ronald Takaki • 1993

The standard American story is a white invention. The real one includes the people it erased.

4.18

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🌍 Multicultural History 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Race In America 🧳 Immigrant Experiences 🏹 Settler Colonialism 🔨 Labor History

A Different Mirror

The standard American story is a white invention. The real one includes the people it erased.

بقلم Ronald Takaki 1993 508 صفحة

4.18

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🌍 Multicultural History 🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Race In America 🧳 Immigrant Experiences 🏹 Settler Colonialism 🔨 Labor History

Trail of Tears

بقلم Captivating History • 2018

They won at the Supreme Court. The president defied the ruling. Then came the death march.

3.97

٢٨٨

🏹 Native American History 🚶 Forced Removal 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Manifest Destiny ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Trail of Tears

They won at the Supreme Court. The president defied the ruling. Then came the death march.

بقلم Captivating History 2018 82 صفحة

3.97

٢٨٨ تقييم

🏹 Native American History 🚶 Forced Removal 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Manifest Destiny ✊ Indigenous Resistance

Slave Country

بقلم Adam Rothman • 2005

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

3.73

١٦٩

🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

Slave Country

The founders thought slavery would die. Their policies built a slave empire from Georgia to Texas.

بقلم Adam Rothman 2005 312 صفحة

3.73

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🏛️ Early American Republic 🌾 Antebellum South ⛓️ American Slavery 💰 Slavery And Capitalism 🗺️ Territorial Expansion

The Common Cause

بقلم Robert G. Parkinson • 2016

Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.

4.10

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⚔️ American Revolution 📢 Propaganda Studies 🎭 Racial Politics 📜 Newspaper History 🏛️ Founding Myths

The Common Cause

Racial fear united the colonies. The propaganda outlasted the war to define American citizenship.

بقلم Robert G. Parkinson 2016 742 صفحة

4.10

٤٩ تقييم

⚔️ American Revolution 📢 Propaganda Studies 🎭 Racial Politics 📜 Newspaper History 🏛️ Founding Myths

Betty

بقلم Tiffany McDaniel • 2020

A Cherokee girl in rural Ohio learns that her family's darkest monsters live under her own roof.

4.39

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🩸 Generational Trauma ⛰️ Appalachian Fiction 👨‍👧 Father-Daughter Bond 👯 Sisterhood 📖 Storytelling As Refuge

Betty

A Cherokee girl in rural Ohio learns that her family's darkest monsters live under her own roof.

بقلم Tiffany McDaniel 2020 480 صفحة

4.39

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🩸 Generational Trauma ⛰️ Appalachian Fiction 👨‍👧 Father-Daughter Bond 👯 Sisterhood 📖 Storytelling As Refuge

Where They Last Saw Her

بقلم Marcie R. Rendon • 2024

After a scream in the woods, an Ojibwe runner finds a beaded earring and a woman gone.

3.87

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🕵️‍♀️ Amateur Sleuth 🔍 Missing Women 🪶 Reservation Setting ✊ Community Activism ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Recovery

Where They Last Saw Her

After a scream in the woods, an Ojibwe runner finds a beaded earring and a woman gone.

بقلم Marcie R. Rendon 2024 336 صفحة

3.87

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🕵️‍♀️ Amateur Sleuth 🔍 Missing Women 🪶 Reservation Setting ✊ Community Activism ❤️‍🩹 Trauma Recovery

Crazy Horse and Custer

بقلم Stephen E. Ambrose • 1975

Crazy Horse and Custer: two lives fated to collide. The parallel path to Little Bighorn.

4.23

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🏜️ American West History ⚔️ Plains Indian Wars 👥 Dual Biography 📜 Manifest Destiny 🏹 Battle Of Little Bighorn

Crazy Horse and Custer

Crazy Horse and Custer: two lives fated to collide. The parallel path to Little Bighorn.

بقلم Stephen E. Ambrose 1975 560 صفحة

4.23

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🏜️ American West History ⚔️ Plains Indian Wars 👥 Dual Biography 📜 Manifest Destiny 🏹 Battle Of Little Bighorn

All Our Relations

بقلم Winona LaDuke • 1999

How Native lands became a dumping ground for 16 nuclear waste sites, and the fight back.

4.37

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🌿 Indigenous Rights 🌍 Environmental Justice 🏞️ Land Rights ✊ Grassroots Activism 🪔 Cultural Preservation

All Our Relations

How Native lands became a dumping ground for 16 nuclear waste sites, and the fight back.

بقلم Winona LaDuke 1999 243 صفحة

4.37

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🌿 Indigenous Rights 🌍 Environmental Justice 🏞️ Land Rights ✊ Grassroots Activism 🪔 Cultural Preservation

A True History of the United States

بقلم Daniel A. Sjursen • 2021

Genocide, slavery, and concentrated wealth: an unblinking history from the bottom up.

4.43

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📜 Revisionist History 🌍 Settler Colonialism 🏛️ American Empire ⚖️ Structural Racism 💰 Economic Inequality

A True History of the United States

Genocide, slavery, and concentrated wealth: an unblinking history from the bottom up.

بقلم Daniel A. Sjursen 2021 683 صفحة

4.43

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📜 Revisionist History 🌍 Settler Colonialism 🏛️ American Empire ⚖️ Structural Racism 💰 Economic Inequality

The Interbellum Constitution

بقلم Alison L. LaCroix • 2024

Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.

4.47

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⚖️ American Legal History 🏛️ Federalism ⏳ Antebellum America 📜 States' Rights ⛓️ Slavery And The Law

The Interbellum Constitution

Antebellum America's constitutional crisis: federal power and states' rights kept swapping sides.

بقلم Alison L. LaCroix 2024 576 صفحة

4.47

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⚖️ American Legal History 🏛️ Federalism ⏳ Antebellum America 📜 States' Rights ⛓️ Slavery And The Law

Between Earth and Sky

بقلم Amanda Skenandore • 2018

A woman returns to her father's Indian boarding school to save a friend condemned for murder.

4.33

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⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 💎 Gilded Age 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 🌾 Reservation Life 💔 Forbidden Interracial Romance

Between Earth and Sky

A woman returns to her father's Indian boarding school to save a friend condemned for murder.

بقلم Amanda Skenandore 2018 336 صفحة

4.33

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⏳ Dual Timeline Narrative 💎 Gilded Age 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 🌾 Reservation Life 💔 Forbidden Interracial Romance

Our First Civil War

بقلم H.W. Brands • 2021

Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.

3.90

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⚔️ American Revolution 🏛️ Founding Era 🌎 Colonial America 💔 Divided Loyalties 🪖 Military History

Our First Civil War

Before fighting Britain, Americans fought each other. The Revolution as a civil war among neighbors.

بقلم H.W. Brands 2021 486 صفحة

3.90

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⚔️ American Revolution 🏛️ Founding Era 🌎 Colonial America 💔 Divided Loyalties 🪖 Military History

The Blessing Way

بقلم Tony Hillerman • 1970

A Navajo police lieutenant follows witchcraft whispers from a staged death to a modern killer.

4.00

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🚔 Police Procedural 🌐 Cultural Outsider 🔎 Amateur Investigator 🩸 Murder Cover-Up 🏜️ Navajo Reservation

The Blessing Way

A Navajo police lieutenant follows witchcraft whispers from a staged death to a modern killer.

بقلم Tony Hillerman 1970 306 صفحة

4.00

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🚔 Police Procedural 🌐 Cultural Outsider 🔎 Amateur Investigator 🩸 Murder Cover-Up 🏜️ Navajo Reservation

The Shape Shifter

بقلم Tony Hillerman • 2006

Retired Navajo detective Joe Leaphorn spots a cursed rug in a magazine. Then his friend vanishes.

4.06

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🧭 Navajo Detective Story 🧿 Cursed Artifact 🕵️ Retired Investigator 🎭 Master Of Disguise 📁 Cold Case Mystery

The Shape Shifter

Retired Navajo detective Joe Leaphorn spots a cursed rug in a magazine. Then his friend vanishes.

بقلم Tony Hillerman 2006 276 صفحة

4.06

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🧭 Navajo Detective Story 🧿 Cursed Artifact 🕵️ Retired Investigator 🎭 Master Of Disguise 📁 Cold Case Mystery

The Night Watchman

بقلم Louise Erdrich • 2020

A Chippewa night watchman learns Congress intends to dissolve his tribe and rallies his community.

4.08

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🏛️ Tribal Sovereignty 🏠 Reservation Life 🔍 Missing Indigenous Women 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters

The Night Watchman

A Chippewa night watchman learns Congress intends to dissolve his tribe and rallies his community.

بقلم Louise Erdrich 2020 464 صفحة

4.08

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🏛️ Tribal Sovereignty 🏠 Reservation Life 🔍 Missing Indigenous Women 🏫 Boarding School Trauma 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters

The American Indian

بقلم Luc Bourgault • 1996

Crystals remember every hand that touched them. Cleanse yourself first; the healing begins with you.

4.10

٢١٩

💎 Crystal Healing ⚡ Energy Medicine 🧂 Ritual Purification 🌀 Aura And Energy Repair 🌬️ Breathwork

The American Indian

Crystals remember every hand that touched them. Cleanse yourself first; the healing begins with you.

بقلم Luc Bourgault 1996 128 صفحة

4.10

٢١٩ تقييم

💎 Crystal Healing ⚡ Energy Medicine 🧂 Ritual Purification 🌀 Aura And Energy Repair 🌬️ Breathwork

Mayflower

بقلم Nathaniel Philbrick • 2006

The first Thanksgiving was followed by a war bloodier per capita than the Civil War.

3.89

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🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Narrative History 🇺🇸 American Origin Stories ⚡ Frontier Conflict 🤝 Cultural Diplomacy

Mayflower

The first Thanksgiving was followed by a war bloodier per capita than the Civil War.

بقلم Nathaniel Philbrick 2006 461 صفحة

3.89

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🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Narrative History 🇺🇸 American Origin Stories ⚡ Frontier Conflict 🤝 Cultural Diplomacy

Where Wolves Don't Die

بقلم Anton Treuer • 2024

Accused of a fire he dreamed first, a Native teen escapes to his grandfather's trapline.

4.17

٤٬٠٠٠+

🕵️ Indigenous Mystery 🧓 Elder Mentorship 💕 Friends To Lovers 🦅 Rites Of Passage 🌙 Spiritual Realism

Where Wolves Don't Die

Accused of a fire he dreamed first, a Native teen escapes to his grandfather's trapline.

بقلم Anton Treuer 2024 320 صفحة

4.17

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🕵️ Indigenous Mystery 🧓 Elder Mentorship 💕 Friends To Lovers 🦅 Rites Of Passage 🌙 Spiritual Realism

The Gods of Indian Country

بقلم Jennifer Graber • 2018

Christian reformers posed as friends to Native people; their friendship was a weapon.

4.13

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🏜️ American West 🪶 Native American Religion ✝️ Christian Missions 📜 Assimilation Policy ✊ Indigenous Sovereignty

The Gods of Indian Country

Christian reformers posed as friends to Native people; their friendship was a weapon.

بقلم Jennifer Graber 2018 312 صفحة

4.13

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🏜️ American West 🪶 Native American Religion ✝️ Christian Missions 📜 Assimilation Policy ✊ Indigenous Sovereignty

The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

بقلم Jon E. Lewis • 2003

A continent of 500 nations: the civilizations, plagues, and wars that remade Native America.

3.96

١٨٠

🪶 Native American History 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations 🥾 Forced Removal ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏚️ Cultural Genocide

The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

A continent of 500 nations: the civilizations, plagues, and wars that remade Native America.

بقلم Jon E. Lewis 2003 571 صفحة

3.96

١٨٠ تقييم

🪶 Native American History 🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations 🥾 Forced Removal ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏚️ Cultural Genocide

Unsettling Truths

بقلم Mark Charles • 2019

A 15th-century papal ruling declared indigenous peoples less than human. It still governs U.S. law.

4.35

١٬٠٠٠+

🗺️ Settler Colonialism ⛪ Theological Racism 🏚️ Land Dispossession 🌱 Decolonization 🪶 Indigenous Theology

Unsettling Truths

A 15th-century papal ruling declared indigenous peoples less than human. It still governs U.S. law.

بقلم Mark Charles 2019 224 صفحة

4.35

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🗺️ Settler Colonialism ⛪ Theological Racism 🏚️ Land Dispossession 🌱 Decolonization 🪶 Indigenous Theology

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