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Reuben Snake: Your Humble Serpent - Indian Visionary and Activist
As told to Jay C. Fikes, Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1996.

In this autobiography, Snake reflects on his experiences in politics, as leader and member of the National American Church, with humor and insight.

The Conquest of America. How the Indian Nations Lost Their Continent
Hans Koning, NY: Monthly Review Press, 1993.

The late author Hans Koning provides, in ten short chapters, a brilliant account of the ongoing war waged by Europeans against the Native Peoples of the Americas over five centuries after Columbus's arrival. From the Spanish conquest to the colonization of North America, Koning frames the U.S. policy toward indigenous and foreign peoples.

Indian Givers, How the Indian of the Americas Transformed the World
Jack Weatherford. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988

The discovery and conquest of the "New World" changed the "Old World" forever, from economy and diet to the concept of personal freedom. Anthropologist Weatherford examines the contributions of the Western Hemispheres' Indigenous peoples.


A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
Ward Churchill, City Lights Publishers (January 1998)

Ward Churchill, explores the history of holocaust and denial in this hemisphere, beginning with the arrival of Columbus and continuing on into the present.

Wisdom of the Elders: Honoring Sacred Native Visions of Nature
David Suzuki and Peter Knudston. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.

Wisdom of the Elders is the first book to explore shared beliefs of the delicate interrelationship between humans and the environment contained in both Western science and the wisdom of Native Peoples around the world.


All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life
Winona LaDuke, South End Press (October 15, 1999)

An in-depth account of Native resistance to environmental and cultural degradation. LaDuke's unique understanding of Native ideas and people is borne from long years of experience, and is deepened by inspiring testimonies from local Native activists sharing the struggle for survival.


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