Essential Topics

Weighs Wampanoag oral traditions and English colonial written records against the popular myth of Thanksgiving.

A Broken Flute is as close to comprehensive as a bibliography on a given subject can get, and more brutally honest than anything else out there.

The story of how the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam led to the destruction of a way of life for members of the Arrow Lakes Tribe.

An Indian boy coming into adulthood, literally weaving and dodging and rolling with the pun

Two Western Shoshone elders, Carrie and Mary Dann, endure decades of struggles against federal marshals for rights to their own land.

Two Métis sisters are taken from their parents as young children and reared in separate foster homes—doing all they can to maintain the ties and live in a hostile society.

The story of the last summer, in 1944, before young Lawrence Loyie was taken from his parents to an Indian residential school in northern Alberta.

May the telling and sharing of these stories bring peace and healing to wounded spirits.

A study of the residential school experience from the perspective of the Indian students who lived at two schools in Kansas and South Dakota.

Tim Giago, who spent his childhood at one of these schools, examines the unholy alliance between church and state that tried to destroy generations of Indian children.

Should be required reading in every classroom where the “Columbus encounter” is taught.

A group of parents, students, and educators calling themselves Communities United against Racism in Education (CURE) analyze kindergarten through fifth-grade texts.

In 1991, Indian women of North, South, and Central America gathered in Lima, Peru with the goal of “reflecting on the situation of the Indian peoples of our continent.”

Truly one of the best, most detailed accounts of this tragic era in American genocide policy.

Recognizing an urgent need for liberation strategies, this offers hands-on suggestions for Indigenous communities to decolonize themselves.

This collection of 17 essays on the Hawai’ian sovereignty movement is a searing indictment of racism and colonialism.

Told mostly from the perspective of California Indian people whose lives have been and continue to be impacted by the California Gold Rush.

A powerful tale of growing up that expertly explores issues of rape, alcoholism, domestic violence and loss.

One of the most important works of Indian literature in the 20th Century. It’s a hard book to read.

This new edition of one of Bruchac’s most important novels includes historical context for the story and discussion questions.