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1491 is a great overview. For insights into specific cultures, check out the Mayan, Mixtec, and Nahua codices. Facsimile copies of the Dresden Codex, the oldest known surviving text in the Americas, are available. The original text is thought to date back to the 11th—12th centuries CE. Miguel Leon-Portilla and the late Earl Shorris' In the Language of Kings: An Anthology of Mesoamerican Literature, Pre-Columbian to the Present is an excellent read.
Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, also known as Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), was a Spanish and Quechua historian. An abridged version of his The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru was published in 2006.