1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving
Weighs Wampanoag oral traditions and English colonial written records against the popular myth of Thanksgiving. |
500 Años del Pueblo Chicano /500 Years of Chicano History
Hundreds of photos, paintings, drawings, political cartoons, and text in Spanish and English about truths long denied, this is a huge photoessay and a family album, about the Mestizo people in whom Indian blood runs strong... |
500 Years of Chicana Women’s History/500 Años dela Mujer ChicanaIf one thing can be said of Betita Martinez in particular and Chicanas as a group, it’s this: They’re no wimps. And this book is proof. |
A Boy Called SlowAt the end of a fierce battle, the boy who was once called “Slow” gained the name Tatan’ka Iyota’ke, a name which is now known well, for Tatan’ka means Sitting Bull. |
A River LostThe 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. |
A Taste of HeritageImparts the traditional Crow philosophy of healing and detailed practical advice for turning garden plants into remedies. |
A Time of Resistance: California Indians During the Mission Period, 1769-1848The only curriculum unit that tells the ways in which the Native peoples here resisted and survived Spanish colonialism, this is essential for fourth-grade teachers teaching about “California Indians.” |
An Upriver PassamaquoddyDrawing on his memories and an oral tradition, Allen Sockabasin returns to his Passamaquoddy village. To the outside world they lived in poverty, but he remembers a life that was rich. |
Behind Closed Doors: Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential SchoolMay the telling and sharing of these stories bring peace and healing to wounded spirits. |
Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the OsageWhile researching his own roots, a Washington Post journalist opens old family wounds and exposes a widespread murder conspiracy. |
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940A study of the residential school experience from the perspective of the Indian students who lived at two schools in Kansas and South Dakota. |
Chief Ninham Forgotten HeroAuthor Eva Jean Bowman wrote this historical non-fiction book to empower Native and non-Native children. Illustrated by the students of Bowler Elementary. |
Children Left Behind: The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding SchoolsTim 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. |
Children of Clay: A Family of Pueblo PottersIt is morning, and Gia (grandma) Rose sets out to the clay pit to dig the brown-orange clay they will need for their work as potters. |
Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the MythShould be required reading in every classroom where the “Columbus encounter” is taught. |
Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and BeyondMedicine Crow tells of a childhood lived mainly outdoors: bathing in icy rivers, mud fights, listening to stories about family and community, and counting coup. |
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian ManifestoDeloria offers his special, ironic Indian point of view on U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. |
Discovering Our Own Place: A Map Saga for Montana: Rocky Mountain Front/BlackfeetEach of these sets of maps offers an in-depth view of one of Montana's five regions. |
Earth Elder StoriesThese stories tell how Earth Elder’s people lived on the land in the 1800s and survived a smallpox and flu epidemic, among other hardships. |
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928Truly one of the best, most detailed accounts of this tragic era in American genocide policy. |