Resources by labyrinth quadrant

Telling the Truth
Proclaiming the Dream
  • God is Red:  A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • The Four Vision Quests of Jesus by Steven Charleston
  • The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing by Lori Alvord (Diné) and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
Practicing the Way

Additional Resources

Books for Young Adults and Children

Young Adult Literature:
  • The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)
  • Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
  • Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
  • Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card
  • Soaring Spirits: Conversations with Native American
  • Teens by Karen Gravelle (not Native)
  • There, There by Tommy Orange (Cheyenne/ Arapaho)
  • Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American
  • West by Dee Brown (Dorris Alexander “Dee” Brown
Books for Children:

32 Native American Children’s Books

  • Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole) and Juana Martinez-Neal (Peruvian)
  • Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp (Mohawk)
  • Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee – Creek)
  • The Mishomis Book by Edward Benton-Banai
  • Pow Wow by Linda Coombs (Wampanoag)
  • Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) – he has many, many books
  • The Unbreakable Code by Sara Hoagland Hunter (not Native)
  • We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (Anishinaabe/ Métis) and Michaela Goade (Tlingit/ Haida)
  • If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving by Chris Newell

Music and Poetry

Music
  • AIM Unity Song
  • Blackbird by The Beatles sung in Mi’kmaq by Emma Stevens
  • The Climb by Miley Cyrus sung in Mi’kmaq by 10-year-old Kalolin Johnson
  • Crystal Woman, andWho Will Speak
  • Gentle Warrior (featuring Devon Paul and Thunder Herney) by an older Kalolin Johnson
  • Here is a good, simple song for Columbus Day
  • Indanee by Pat Humphries is beautiful
  • Prayer Loop Song by Supaman shows Hip Hop sound “layering”
  • Sharon Burch has several YouTube videos: “Colors of My Heart”
  • Stand Up is about DAPL
  • Why also has a Jingle Dress Dancer
  • Wishi Ta and other songs by Brooke Medicine Eagle.
Poetry
  • Bitterroot by
  • Abena Songbird (Abnaki)
    Jimmie Durham (Cherokee)
  • Contemporary Native American Poetry by John E. Smelcer
    (Alaskan Native/ Ahtna) & D. L. Birchfield (Chocktaw), Eds.
  • No Parole Today by
    Laura Tohe (Diné/ Navajo)
  • Columbus Day by
  • Durable Breath:
  • Laura Tohe (Diné/ Navajo)
  • Rainbow Dancer by
    Heather Harris (Metic/ Cree)
  • Sculpted Stones by
    Victor Montejo (Maya)

Film, TV and Ted Talks

Films
  • Blood Memory
  • Code Talkers – short film about Code Talkers in WWII
  • Crooked Arrows (a little campy, but great conversation starter, Indigenous actors) – About the origins of lacrosse, filmed in Massachusetts
    Edge of America – New teacher is asked to coached female basketball team on a reservation)
  • The Fast Runner – Two brothers challenge the evil order: Amaqjuaq, the Strong One, and Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner. Atanarjuat escapes running naked over the spring sea ice
  • How the US Stole Thousands of Native American Children
    Leonard Peltier (90 min, 1970s)
  • Smoke Signals (Indigenous actors, producers, directors) – two young Idaho men with radically different memories of Arnold Joseph, who has just died, road trip to retrieve Arnold’s ashes
  • The Stories–Preserving Our Past
  • Trudell – Movie about this activist
  • Waban-Aki: People from Where The Sun Rises
Television
  • Dawnland
  • Bounty
  • Dear Georgina
  • Longmire (TV Series)
  • Natural Healing
  • Native America (PBS 2018)
  • Native America in the Classroom – Lessons with clips from film
  • We Shall Remain (PBS)
  • Yellowstone (TV Series)
  • 500 Nations (Mini-Series, 1995)
  • 1491 (8-part series 2019)
TED Talks
  • Creating a “Good Mind”: The Power of Giving Thanks by Michael Martin
  • We the People (17 min) – the 3 most misunderstood words in US history by Mark Charles

*Many of the resources listed here were compiled and reviewed by Claudia A. Fox Tree, M.Ed (Arawak)