Recommended Autobiography/Biography List

1. Alvord, Lori Arviso. 1999. The Scalpel and the Silver Bear (Navajo)
2. Benedek, Emily. 1996. Beyond the Four Corners of the World: A Navajo Woman's Journey
3. Boyer, Ruth, & Gayton, Narcissus. 1992. Apache Mothers and Daughters
4. Brave Bird, Mary. 1991. Lakota Woman (Sioux)
5. Brown, Claude. 1965. Manchild In the Promised Land (Black)
6. Colton, Larry. 2000. Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn (Crow)
7. Day, Mark. 1971. Forty Acres; Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers (Chicano/Hispanic)
8. Fire, John. 1972. Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions, with Richard Erdoes (Lakota/Sioux)
9. Hanna, Mark. 1992. Man of the Canyon: An Old Indian Remembers his Life. (Havasupai)
10. Horn, Esther Burnett & Sally McBeth. 1998. Essie’s Story: The Life and Legacy of a Shoshone Teacher
11. Haskins, James. 1993. Always Movin’ on: The life of Langston Hughes (Black)
12. Levy, Jacques E. 1975. Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa (Chicano/Hispanic)
13. MacDonald, Peter. 1993. The Last Warrior: Peter MacDonald and the Navajo
14. Mankiller, Wilma. & Wallis, Michael. 1993. Mankiller: A Chief and Her People. (Cherokee)
15. Matthiessen, Peter. 1969. Sal Si Puedes; Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution (Chicano/Hispanic)
16. McCarthy, James. 1985. A Papago Traveler (Tohonto O'odham)
17. Means, Russell. 1995. Where White Men Fear to Tread (Lakota/Sioux)
18. Merida, K. & Fletcher, M.A. 2007. Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas (Black)
19. Mihesuah, Henry. 2002. First to Fight (Comanche)
20. Monroe, Mark. 1994. An Indian in White America (Lakota/Sioux)
21. Navarrette, Ruben. 1993. A Darker Shade of Crimson: The Odyssey of a Harvard Chicano
22. Neithammer, Carolyn. 2001. I’ll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist
23. Rodriguez, Luis, J. 1994. La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (Chicano/Hispanic)
24. Rodriguez, Richard. 1982. Hunger of Memory (Chicano/Hispanic)
25. Rose, Mike. 1989. Lives on the Boundary (Stories of students who have struggled to succeed academically)
26. Sekaquaptewa, Helen. 1969. Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa (Hopi)
27. Snell, Alma H. 2000. Grandmother’s Grandchild (Crow)
28. St. Pierre, Mark. 1991. Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story
29. Stewart, Irene. 1980. A Voice of Her Tribe: A Navajo Woman's Own Story (Cline Special Collections)
30. Szasz, Margaret C. 1994. Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker (series of short biographies)
31. Piri, Thomas. 1967. Down These Mean Streets (Puerto Rican)
32. Underhill, Ruth. 1940. Hawk Over Whirlpools (Fictionalized, Southern Arizona)
33. White, Elizabeth. 1964. No Turning Back (Hopi)
34. Yava, A. 1978. Big Falling Snow (Hopi)

To choose a book off this list, you need to get it approved by the instructor.