7 Books by writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas

Blue Highways is an autobiographical travel book, published in 1982, by William Least Heat-Moon, born William Trogdon.

The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) is a compilation of the writings of Charles Eastman. A 19th-century Native American author and activist, Eastman lived both in the world of the Santee Dakota and the world of contemporary non-Indian America. His writings are of historical significance, providing a glimpse of Native American life during a turbulent time, as well as an explanation of the spiritual traditions of the Sioux people.

Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins was a Northern Paiute author, activist and educator.

Paula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, literary critic, activist, professor, and novelist. Of mixed-race European-American, Native American, and Arab-American descent, she identified with her mother's people, the Laguna Pueblo and childhood years. She drew from its oral traditions for her fiction poetry and also wrote numerous essays on its themes. She edited four collections of Native American traditional stories and contemporary works and wrote two biographies of Native American women.

William Apess, was an ordained Methodist minister, writer, and activist of mixed-race descent, who was a political and religious leader in Massachusetts. After becoming ordained as a Methodist minister in 1829, he published his autobiography the same year. It is among the first autobiographies by a Native American writer. Apess was part Pequot by descent, especially through his mother's family, and identified with their culture.

Split Tooth is the debut novel by Canadian musician Tanya Tagaq, published in 2018. Based in part on her own personal journals, the book tells the story of a young Inuk woman growing up in the Canadian Arctic in the 1970s.

Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means is the autobiography of Oglala Lakota activist Russell Means. Published in 1996 and written in collaboration with Marvin J. Wolf, the book examines his childhood, his activism for the rights of Native Americans, including his role in the famous standoff with the FBI at Wounded Knee in 1973, and his later forays into politics, film and television.