Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian ManifestoIt seems that each generation will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's "Manifesto" for some time to come, before we absorb what he tells us (with a great deal of humor) about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book should to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest.
Debating DemocracyRecounts the ongoing debate over the "Influence Theory," the Haudenosaunee's (Iroquois) Great Law of Peace's effect on the formation of the United States Constitution.
Exiled in the Land of the Free These important essays by Native American leaders and scholars present persuasive evidence that the American colonists and U.S. founding fathers borrowed from the Iroquois Confederacy and other Indian political institutions in drafting the U.S. Constitution and in creating democratic traditions, and review the effects of rulings by the Supreme Court on dominion and land claims.
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Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States Battlefield and Burial Grounds examines the double standard of the treatment of grave sites, and the struggle of Native Americans to reclaim and rebury their dead often against the competing interests of archeologists and anthropologists.
Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe. Omaha oral narratives tell the story of the Sacred Pole (Umon'hon'ti, the Venerable Man). The Omaha relinquished the sacred Pole to Harvard's Peabody Museum in 1888 under pressure from the U.S. Government. The Sacred Pole was returned by the museum to the Omaha in 1989.
Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples. Provides factual accounts of the ongoing expropriation of land and traditional subsistence rights of Native Americans.
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