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1) The heart of everything that is : the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend

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#1 on the Indigenous Americans list for 2016-01-10.

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The untold story of the great Oglala Sioux chief Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian commander of the Plains who witnessed the opening of the West and forced the American government to sue for peace in a conflict named for him.

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3) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian history of the American West

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Brown, Dee

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#3 on the Indigenous Americans list for 2016-01-10.

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition, Brown has contributed an incisive...

4) Crazy Horse and Custer: the parallel lives of two American warriors

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Ambrose, Stephen E

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#4 on the Indigenous Americans list for 2016-01-10.

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On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both had become leaders in their societies...