A selection of Yale University Press titles related to Indigenous resistance, literature, and history. Many titles in this reading list are from The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity, yet additional titles can be found in The Lamar Series In Western History and throughout our catalog. This reading list highlights Indigenous and non-Indigenous voices, for your reading today and everyday.
Catching the Light, Joy Harjo
Why I Write Series
United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing
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Playing Indian, Philip J. Deloria
Yale Historical Publications Series
“[A] brilliant book. . . . This book reminds us that at least one question about America has been settled. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that prevailed throughout most of our history, the Indians will remain.”—Peter Iverson, American Historical Review
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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, Lisa Brooks
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
Winner of the 2019 Bancroft Prize: A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America
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A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement, Kent Blansett
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Indigenous rights movement
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Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, Christine M. DeLucia
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
A powerful study of King Philip’s War and its enduring effects on histories, memories, and places in Native New England from 1675 to the present
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Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures, Kelly Wisecup
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
A wide-ranging, multidisciplinary look at Native American literature through non-narrative texts like lists, albums, recipes, and scrapbooks
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Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire, Coll Thrush
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
An imaginative retelling of London’s history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries
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The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs, Joshua L. Reid
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
The first full-scale history of the Makah people of the Pacific Northwest, whose culture and identity are closely bound to the sea
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Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas, Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Lorado Wilner
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
A compelling study that charts the influence of Indigenous thinkers on Franz Boas, the founder of modern anthropology
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, Ned Blackhawk (Forthcoming in Spring 2023)
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America
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