American Indian Studies: Books & eBooks

Starting point for research in American Indian Studies

Selected eBooks

A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast

The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs

Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights

Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska

Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature

Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed

Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation

Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality

Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation

From the Boarding Schools: Apache Indian Students Speak

Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation

As We See It: Conversations with Native American Photographers

As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts

American Indians at the Margins: Racist Stereotypes and Their Impacts on Native Peoples

A New Deal for Navajo Weaving: Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles

Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange across Three Centuries

Michael Chiago: O'odham Lifeways Through Art

My Heart Is Bound Up with Them: How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation

Rabbit Decolonizes the Forest: Stories from the Euchee Reservation

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eBook Collections

Additional collections of eBooks can be found on eBook Collections guide. The following collections are useful for Indigenous Studies topics.

ACLS Humanities E-books

Indigenous North Americans Collection

Oxford Scholarship Online

Finding Books Beyond the UW

If you can't find the books you need at the UW or through our Summit partner libraries (Summit material can be found in UW Libraries Search), use the following catalogs. Books not available at the UW can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.

Worldcat

Center for Research Libraries Catalog

HathiTrust

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global

Browsing Books on American Indians

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though most of the books on American Indian history & studies are located in the call number areas listed below, you will also find books in other subject areas (e.g., there will be books on American Indians in the call numbers for women's studies, sociology, political science, etc.). The major section for Native American Studies is located on the 3rd floor of Suzzallo Library under these call numbers.

E77	American Indians - general
E78	American Indians - by region
E98	American Indians - by subject
E99	American Indians - by tribe

For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.