Resources by Theme
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Telling the Truth
All My Relations with Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation)
America Has Always Used Schools as a Weapon Against Native Americans (Boarding Schools)
Cultural Appropriations and the Plains Headdress
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
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Additional Resources
Books for Young Adults and Children
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
Music and Poetry
Bitterroot by Abena Songbird (Abnaki)
Columbus Day by Jimmie Durham (Cherokee)
Durable Breath: Contemporary Native American Poetry by John E. Smelcer
Film, TV and Ted Talks
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
*Many of the resources listed here were compiled and reviewed by Claudia A. Fox Tree, M.Ed (Arawak)
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