Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan
John Lloyd Stephens, Karl Ackerman
1846 · 1871 edition
600 pages
Free indigenous peoples books
These books tell the stories of indigenous peoples around the world. Land, language, tradition, the damage of colonization and the strength of survival are their themes. More and more are written by indigenous authors themselves, in novels, memoirs, poetry and histories that deserve wide reading. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.
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The Yemassee
William Gilmore Simms
1882 · 1885 edition
466 pages
Souls grown deep
Paul Arnett, William Arnett
Published 1999
544 pages
Eskimo Life
Fridtjof Nansen
Published 1894
444 pages
A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro
Alfred Russel Wallace
Published 1892
424 pages
The Oak-openings
James Fenimore Cooper
Published 1871
458 pages
Across the Everglades
Hugh Willoughby
Published 1898
300 pages
The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway)
George Copway
Published 1847
246 pages
History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians ...
Horatio Bardwell Cushman
Published 1899
838 pages
History of Friedrich ii of Prussia
Thomas Carlyle
1870 · 1873 edition
314 pages
Introduction [to Handbook of American Indian Languages]
Franz Boas, John Wesley Powell
Published 1911
1098 pages
Inequalities in Zimbabwe
Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchins, David Stephen
1979 · 1981 edition
20 pages
Navaho Legends
Washington Matthews
Published 1897
350 pages
The Rahui
Tamatoa Bambridge
Published 2016
269 pages
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Isabella Lucy Bird
Published 1881
450 pages
Abnormal Types of Speech in Nootka
Edward Sapir, Geological Survey of Canada
Published 1915
512 pages
The Cegiha Language
James Owen Dorsey
Published 1890
824 pages
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881
James Stevenson
Published 1884
808 pages
Final Report of Investigations Among the Indians of the Southwestern United States, Carried on Mainly in the Years from 1880 to 1885
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, New Mexico Historical Records Survey
Published 1890
362 pages
Chinook texts
Franz Boas
Published 1894
582 pages
The contest for Aboriginal souls
Regina Ganter
Published 2018
248 pages
The Maya Year
Cyrus Thomas
Published 1894
72 pages
History of the Conquest of Peru
William Hickling Prescott, The Perfect The Perfect Library
Published 1874
576 pages
The Maya Chronicles
Daniel Garrison Brinton
Published 1882
300 pages