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American Indian Studies Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of American Indian Studies books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the American Indian Studies series? Start with "Indian Summers" (1998) and follow publication order through all 26 books.
The complete American Indian Studies reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Indian Summers
1998
The Feathered Heart (By: Mark Turcotte)
1998
Nickel Eclipse: Iroquois Moon
2000
Absentee Indians and Other Poems (By: Kimberly Blaeser)
2002
National Monuments (By: Heid E. Erdrich)
2008
Dragonfly Dance (By: Denise K. Lajimodiere)
2010
Plain of Jars: and Other Stories (By: Geary Hobson)
2011
Document of Expectations (By: Devon A. Mihesuah)
2011
To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825-1898 (By: Rebecca Kugel)
2012
Centering Anishinaabeg Studies: Understanding the World through Stories (By: Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair,Jill Doerfler,Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark)
2013
Follow the Blackbirds (By: Gwen Westerman)
2013
That Guy Wolf Dancing (By: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn)
2014
The Murder of Joe White: Ojibwe Leadership and Colonialism in Wisconsin (By: Erik M. Redix)
2014
Mediating Indianness (By: Cathy Covell Waegner)
2015
Indian Country: Telling a Story in a Digital Age (By: Victoria Lapoe,Benjamin Rex Lapoe)
2017
Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media (By: Heid E. Erdrich)
2017
Stories for a Lost Child (By: Carter Meland)
2017
Gambling on Authenticity: Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-So-New Indian (By: Becca Gercken,Julie Pelletier)
2017
Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature (By: Mandy Suhr-Sytsma)
2018
Visualities 2: More Perspectives on Contemporary American Indian Film and Art (By: Denise K. Cummings)
2019
Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures (By: Brian Burkhart)
2019
Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature (By: David Stirrup)
2020
Aazheyaadizi: Worldview, Language, and the Logics of Decolonization (By: Mark D. Freeland)
2020
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
2021
All the Love Under the Vast Sky
2025
Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
2025
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