Non-Fiction
Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9781786998163Publication Date: 2021-04-08This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth.' Concepts such as 'discovery' and 'claiming' are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Learning to write "Indian" : the boarding-school experience and American Indian literature by Call Number: PS153.I52 K38 2005ISBN: 0806137193Publication Date: 2005-12-01Katanski investigates the impact of the Indian boarding school experience on the American Indian literary tradition through an examination of turn-of-the century student essays and autobiographies as well as contemporary plays, novels, and poetry. This unique volume, with 13 b&w illustrations, looks at writings about the schools as literature, rather than historical evidence.
Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press by Call Number: PS508 .I5 R37 2017ISBN: 9780803276758Publication Date: 2017-12-01Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press is the first comprehensive collection of writings by students and well-known Native American authors who published in boarding school newspapers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Magic Weapons : Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9780887557026Publication Date: 2007-11-30Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi'kmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in-depth critical studies of better known life writings by Basil Johnston (Ojibway) and Tomson Highway (Cree). Magic Weapons examines the ways in which Indigenous survivors of residential school mobilize narrative in their struggles for personal and communal empowerment in the shadow of attempted cultural genocide.
Fiction
Poet Warrior : a memoir by Call Number: PS3558 .A62423 Z46 2021ISBN: 9780393248524Publication Date: 2021-09-07Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry with the power to unearth the truth and demand justice.
House Made of Dawn by Call Number: PS3563.O47 H6 1968ISBN: 9780061859977Publication Date: 2010-04-13The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land. A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and traditions of his people. But the other world--modern, industrial America--pulls at Abel, demanding his loyalty, trying to claim his soul, and goading him into a destructive, compulsive cycle of depravity and disgust.
Genocidal Love : A Life After Residential School by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9780889777415Publication Date: 2020-09-12Presenting herself as "Myrtle," residential school survivor and Indigenous television personality Bevann Fox explores essential questions by recounting her life through fiction. She shares memories of an early childhood filled with love with her grandparents--until she is sent to residential school at the age of seven. Her horrific experiences of abuse there left her without a voice, timid and nervous, never sure, never trusting, affecting her romantic relationships and family bonds for years to come.This is the story of Myrtle battling to recover her voice.
The Removed : a novel by Call Number: PS3608 .O248 R46 2021ISBN: 0062997548Publication Date: 2021-02-02Drawing deeply on Cherokee folklore, The Removed seamlessly blends the real and spiritual to excavate the deep reverberations of trauma—a meditation on family, grief, home, and the power of stories on both a personal and ancestral level.
There There by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9780525520375Publication Date: 2018-06-05A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
Sweetgrass Basket by Call Number: DML 4th Floor Juvenile PZ7.C2535 Sw 2005ISBN: 9780525475477Publication Date: 2005-09-22Mattie and Sarah are two Mohawk sisters who are sent to an off-reservation school after the death of their mother. Subject to intimidation and corporal punishment, with little hope of contact with their father, the girls are taught menial tasks to prepare them for life as domestics. How Mattie and Sarah protect their culture, memories of their family life, and their love for each other makes for a powerful, unforgettable historical novel.
Doubters and Dreamers by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9780816501298Publication Date: 2011-01-20Doubters and Dreamers opens with a question from a young girl faced with the spectacle of Indian effigies lynched and burned "in jest" before UC Berkeley's annual Big Game against Stanford: "What's a debacle, Mom?" This innocent but telling question marks the girl's entrée into the complicated knowledge of her heritage as a mixed-blood Native American of Koyangk'auwi (Concow) Maidu descent. The girl is a young Janice Gould, and the poems and narrations that follow constitute a remarkable work of sustained and courageous self-revelation, retracing the precarious emotional terrain of an adolescence shaped by a mother's tough love and a growing consciousness of an ancestral and familial past.
Film and Art
- American Indian Film GalleryThe American Indian Film Gallery (AIFG) is an online collection of films by and about Native peoples of the Americas, compiled and digitized by historian J. Fred MacDonald. The AIFG presently contains over 450 non-fiction films that document Native lifeways from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, with a large concentration on peoples of the Southwest. The films range from a 1922 silent newsreel to recent footage of pow-wows and political meetings in 2011. In July 2011, this collection was awarded to the University of Arizona, edging out prestigious institutions across the hemisphere.
- Indigenous CinemaThrough the National Film Board of Canada, launched in 2018, this large collection of freely available films ranging from 1968 to 2018 are all made by indigenous filmmakers.
- A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Culture"The Spanish used the horse as an instrument of warfare and control. But as soon as horses came into Indian hands, Native peoples began to weave a close relationship with the Horse Nation. By the late 1700s, virtually every tribe in the West was mounted. " Digital exhibition from the physical exhibitions at the George Gustav Heye Center from 2009-2011, and the National Museum of the American Indian highlights the importance of horses in Native American life.
Current News and Historical Newspapers
- Native TimesThe Native American Times was launched in 1994 as the Oklahoma Indian Times by Jim Gray (Osage) and Elizabeth Gaines (Cherokee). It was a bi-weekly newspaper distributed throughout Oklahoma. In 2008, Lisa Hicks Snell, Cherokee, purchased the Native American Times and moved its headquarters to Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
- Indians of North America Digitized NewspapersFrom Library of Congress, Chronicling America has 28 newspapers from around the country ranging from the 1820s-1960s.