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Indigenous (Social & Cultural, Kindle eBooks): Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Indigenous (Social & Cultural, Kindle eBooks), updated Nov 2, 2026: median price $6.99, median 433 reviews, average rating 4.5 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 18/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $2.99 – $12.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.5 |
| New releases (90 days) | 9% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 46% of the parent category Social & Cultural (947), one of the easier corners under it.
- Its review barrier is higher than in 79% of Kindle eBooks categories: the median best seller has 433 reviews, so new books need time to build up.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $2.99 to $12.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Indigenous best sellers
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Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
by Chester Nez
- List rank#1
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews4,850
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Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
by Pekka Hämäläinen
- List rank#2
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews875
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Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
by Mary Annette Pember
- List rank#3
- Price$8.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews258
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Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
- List rank#4
- Price$15.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews433
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Blood and Thunder
- List rank#5
- Price$10.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews6,807
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
- List rank#6
- Price$13.99
- Rating4.4
- Reviews82,740
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True North: On the Road in Canada – An Acclaimed Memoir of Landscapes, Ancestral Connections, and Cultural Identity
by Paul Theroux
- List rank#7
- Price$14.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews76
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
by S. C. Gwynne
- List rank#8
- Price$13.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews21,988
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1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
- List rank#9
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews6,894
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The Frontiersmen (Winning of America Book 1)
by Allan W. Eckert
- List rank#10
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.8
- Reviews2,575
FAQ
Is Indigenous a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 18/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 433 reviews and sells for $6.99.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Indigenous?
The median best seller has 433 reviews, and 25% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Indigenous best sellers cost?
The median price is $6.99; half of the best sellers are priced between $2.99 and $12.99.
Can new books break into Indigenous?
9% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.