Recommended Reading

To learn more about American Indian education, history, culture and contemporary issues, we recommend the following resources:

Books:

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. Knopf. 2005.

American Indian Tribal Governments by Sharon O'Brien. University of Oklahoma Press. 1989.

Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson. W.W. Norton & Co. 2005.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. Viking Adult. 2004.

Collected Wisdom: American Indian Education by Linda Miller Cleary, Thomas D. Peacock. Allyn & Bacon. 1997.

Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928, by David Wallace Adams. 1997.

Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford. Crown Publishers. 1988.

Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice: In Our Mother's Voice by Maenette Kape'Ahiokalani Padeken by Ah Nee-Benham and Joanne E. Cooper (editors). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2000.

Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education by Karen Gayton Swisher (Editor) and John Tippeconnic (Editor). Eric Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools. 1999.

Power and Place: Indian Education in America by Vine Deloria, Daniel R. Wildcat. University Press of Kansas. 2001.

The Seventh Generation: Native Students Speak About Finding the Good Path by Amy Bergstrom, Linda Miller Cleary, Thomas D. Peacock Eric Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools. 2003.

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