If you are interested in learning more about Indigenous history in Chicago and the experiences of Native people here, we encourage you to explore the many wonderful resources below. 

History Books

• David R. M. Beck. Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).
• John P. Bowes. Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016). 
• Ann Durkin Keating. Rising Up From Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012). 
• James B. LaGrand. Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75. (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2005). 
• Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R.M. Beck, City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015). 
• John J. Laukaitis. Community Self-Determination: American Indian Education in Chicago, 1952-2006. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2016). 
• John Low. Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago. (Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2016). 
• Douglas Miller. Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019). 
• Robert Michael Morrissey, People of the Ecotone: Environment and Indigenous Power at the Center of Early America. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022). 
• Blaire Morseau, ed. As Sacred to us: Simon Pokagon’s Birch Bark Stories in their Contexts. (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2023).
• John William Nelson. Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023). 
• Susan Sleeper-Smith. Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001). 
• Helen Hornbeck Tanner. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. 2nd edition. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987). 
• Michael Witgen. An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).

Novels, Plays, and Poetry

• Joy Harjo, “The Woman Hanging From the Thirteenth Floor Window,” in She Had Some Horses. (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983). 
• The Poetry Foundation, “Native American Poetry and Culture.” Chicago, IL. 
• Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls. (Boston: Mariner Books, 2023). 
• Mona Susan Power, Roofwalker. (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2002). 
• E. Donald Two-Rivers, Briefcase Warriors: Stories for the Stage. (Norman: Oklahoma University Press, 2001). 
• Mark Turcotte, Exploding Chippewas. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2002). 

Websites

• Northwestern University, Archive Chicago: Indigenous Art, Activism, and Place Making. 
• Northwestern University, Indigenous Tour of Northwestern. 
• The Prairie Band of Potawatomi, “Shab-eh-nay Reservation: Frequently Asked Questions,” Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation, pbpindiantribe.com. 
• JeeYeun Lee, Whose Lakefront Project.