Introductory Books

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Cultural Identity / Confronting Stereotypes

Bordewich, Fergus M. Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. New York: Anchor, 1997.

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. Anti-Indianism in Modern America. A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Hall, Stuart, Paul du Gay (eds.). Questions of Cultural Identity. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage, 1996.

Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me. Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. New York: Touchstone, 2007.

Pearce, Roy Harvey. Savagism and Civilization. A Study of the Indian and the American Mind. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of Berkeley Press, 1953/1988.

Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers. How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. New York: Fawcett, 1988.

---. Native Roots. How the Indians Enriched America. New York: Fawcett, 1991.

Legal Matters

Deloria, Vine Jr., Clifford M. Lytle. The Nations Within. The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.

Pevar, Stephen L. The Rights of Indians and Tribes. The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian and Tribal Rights. Third Edition. New York, London: New York University Press, 2004.

Native American Literature

Lincoln, Kenneth. Native American Renaissance. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of Berkeley Press, 1983.

Velie, Alan R. (Ed.) Native American Perspectives on Literature and History. Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 1994/1995.

Vizenor, Gerald. Fugitive Poses. Native American Indian Scence of Absence and Presence. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Womack, Craig. Red on Red. Native American Literary Separatism. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Native American History

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel. A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years. London: Vintage, 1997.

Drinnon, Richard. Facing West. The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating & Empire-Building. Norman: U of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America. Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975.

---. The Founders of America. From the Earliest Migrations to the Present. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993.

---. The Creation of America. Through Revolution to Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Johannsen, Bruce E. Debating Democracy. Native American Legacy of Freedom. Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1998.

Mann, Charles C. 1491. New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Vintage, 2005.

Internet Resources

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Background Information

Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and promoting American Indian languages

Census.gov: American Indian and Alaska Native Data and Links

List of Federally Recognized Indian Tribes

American Indian Population and Labor Force Report 2003 (BIA)

News and Contemporary Issues

Indian Country Today

Indianz.com

Native Times

Audiovisual Materials

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Documentaries and Reimaginings

The American Experience - Season 21: We Shall Remain, Episodes 5-9 (2009) · PBS

Into the West (2005)

500 Nations (1995)

Movies

The Business of Fancydancing (2002, Dir. Sherman Alexie)

Skins (2002, Dir. Chris Eyre)

Smoke Signals (1998, Dir. Chris Eyre)

Powwow Highway (1989, Dir. Jonathan Wacks)