Telling the Truth

Unlinked Resources that are worth tracking down: 

  • All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes)
  • American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
  • The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
  • Extraordinary American Indians by Susan Avery and Linda Skinner 
  • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
  • Indian Givers by Jack WeatherfordAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz The Other Slavery: The
  • Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez (Mexican)
  • A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
  • The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King (Cherokee)
  • 1491 by Charles C. Mann (but second book, 1493, not recommended by our Indigenous friends)