Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sacred Pipe | 1953 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 2 | Aztec Thought and Culture | 1956 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 3 | Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux | 1957 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 4 | The Sioux | 1964 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 5 | A History of the Indians of the United States | 1970 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 6 | The Chickasaws | 1971 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 7 | The Five Civilized Tribes | 1971 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 8 | The Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Lands | 1973 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 9 | Geronimo | 1976 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 10 | The Apaches | 1979 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 11 | The Mescalero Apaches | 1979 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 12 | Chief Left Hand | 1981 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 13 | Wah’Kon-Tah | 1981 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 14 | The Blackfeet | 1983 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 15 | The Comanches | 1987 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 16 | American Indian Medicine | 1990 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 17 | Cochise | 1991 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 18 | The Powhatan Indians of Virginia | 1992 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 19 | American Indians in U.S. History | 2003 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 20 | Crazy Horse | 2006 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 21 | Pre-Removal Choctaw History | 2008 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 22 | Indian Tribes of Oklahoma | 2009 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 23 | Chief Loco | 2010 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 24 | From Cochise to Geronimo | 2010 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 25 | The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island | 2011 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 26 | Yuchi Folklore | 2013 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 27 | “Strange Lands and Different Peoples” | 2013 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 28 | The Mixtecs of Oaxaca | 2013 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 29 | A Cheyenne Voice | 2013 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 30 | The Darkest Period | 2014 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 31 | Through Indian Sign Language | 2015 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 32 | Ioway Life | 2016 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 33 | Tlacaelel Remembered | 2016 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 34 | Converting the Rosebud | 2018 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 35 | Hide, Wood, and Willow | 2019 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 36 | Strike Fear in the Land | 2020 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 37 | Providing for the People | 2020 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
| 38 | Lakhota | 2022 | Margaret Coel | Buy |
The Civilization of the American Indians series represents one of the most comprehensive academic projects on Native American history and culture. Margaret Coel’s contributions to this series demonstrate her credentials as a scholar before she became known as a mystery novelist. Her volumes focus on Plains Indian cultures, particularly the Arapaho, providing detailed historical and anthropological documentation. This academic work established her expertise in the subject matter that would later inform her Wind River Reservation mysteries, giving her fiction a scholarly foundation that sets it apart from other mystery series. The series continues to be a major resource for Native American studies.