I'm starting to read more books about the American West, and would like to find some that are specifically by and about Native peoples. Fiction, non-fiction, historical or modern are all welcome!
Inspired by having just finished Ivan Doig's This House of Sky, and a childhood reading the Little House books. (And an adulthood reading critiques of said books. And, frankly, my own move west a few years ago.) I've read a handful of true Westerns, but I'm more interested in, I guess, meditations on the American West, the landscape and the living there and what it means to live there and be from there and so on. So far I've read Borderlands/La Frontera, but I'm not sure where to even start looking next.
I'm okay with scholarly works, but I'm really looking more for something for the general public. Any genre is fine, fiction or non-, historical or modern. I love memoirs. Geographically, anything west of the Mississippi River, I guess? I fell in love with Montana after traveling through it, and the PNW has especial meaning to me, but this is not to exclude other regions at all.
(Important caveat: I am well aware that it wasn't just white and indigenous peoples in the American West! But for the moment, I am particularly interested in a primarily Native point of view/experiences/writings/etc.) |
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