Resources by Theme
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
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)
