Native American Bibliography

Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 1

Native Vision bibliography

NOTE FOR TEACHERS/LIBRARIANS:

A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children, edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin, is an invaluable resource for finding literature for students that portrays Native people and culture in an accurate and respectful way. Highly recommended.

Native American Picture Books of Change: The Art of Historic Children’s Editions by Rebecca C. Benes is a good resource for bilingual and period literature written for Native students.

FICTION

Elementary

Ma’ii and Cousin Horned Toad Shonto Begay

Cheyenne Again Eve Bunting

Shi-shi-etko Nicola Campbell

In My Mother’s House Little Herder Stories, illustrated by Hoke Denetsosie: Little Herder in Summer, Little Herder in Spring, Little Herder in Autumn, Little Herder in Winter (bilingual) Ann Nolan Clark

The Magic Of Spider Woman Lois Duncan

Daughter of Suqua Diane Johnston Hamm

The Unbreakable Code Sara Hoagland Hunter

Alice Yazzie’s Year Ramona Maher

Annie and the Old One Miska Miles

Frog Brings Rain (bilingual) Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved (bilingual) Patricia Hruby Powell

Home to Medicine Mountain Chiori Santiago

My Name is Seepeetza Shirley Sterling Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 2

Jóhonaa’éí: Bringer of Dawn (bilingual) Veronica Tsinajinnie

Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home: A Story of the Navajo Long Walk (bilingual) Evangeline Parsons Yazzie

Intermediate

Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears, 1838 Joseph Bruchac

Sweetgrass Basket Marlene Carvell

Kate Russell, wartime nurse Martha Johnson

Ann Bartlett, Navy nurse Martha Johnson

The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II soldier Walter Dean Myers

My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck Mary Pope Osborne

Secondary

Code Talker Joseph Bruchac

The Rememberer Steven Dietz

My Name is Not Easy Debby Dahl Edwardson

Mean Spirit Linda Hogan

Reservations Harold Meyers

House Made of Dawn N. Scott Momaday

Storyteller Leslie Silko

REFERENCE Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 3

Elementary

Navajo Vision and Voices Across the Mesa Shonto Begay

The Navajo Raymond Bial

Navajo D.L. Birchfield

Navajo Long Walk Seasons of the Circle: A Native American Year Joseph Bruchac

Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician and Activist Adapted by Gina Capaldi & Q.L. Pearce

The Navajo Kevin Cunningham & Peter Benoit

A Rainbow at Night: The World in Words and Pictures by Navajo Children Bruce Hucko

The Navajo David King

As Long as the Rivers Flow Larry Loyie

Teen Life on Reservations and in First Nation Communities: Growing Up Native Marsha McIntosh

Quiet Hero: The Ira Hayes Story S.D. Nelson

Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave Monty Roessel

The Navajo Geraldine Woods

Intermediate

Navajo code talkers Nathan Aaseng

As Long as the Rivers Flow: the stories of 9 Native Americans Paula Gunn Allen and Patricia Clark Smith

Human Rights: Issues for a New Millenium Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 4

Racism and Ethnic Bias: Everybody’s Problem Linda Jacobs Altman

Between sacred mountains: Navajo stories and lessons from the land Claudeen Arthur

Kaibah; recollection of a Navajo girlhood Kay Bennett

Code Talker Many Nations: An Alphabet of Native Americans Navajo Long Walk Joseph Bruchac

Unsung heroes of World War II: the story of the Navajo code talkers Deanne Durrett

Code Talkers and Warriors: Native Americans and World War II Tom Holm

Stories of traditional Navajo life and culture Grandfather stories of the Navahos Broderick H. Johnson, editor

Navajo code talkers: Native American heroes Catherine Jones

Warriors: Navajo code talkers Kenji Kawano

North American Indians Today: Navajo Kenneth McIntosh

The Ethnic and Group Identity Movements Ann Malaspina

To Establish Justice: Citizenship and the Constitution Patricia McKissack and Arlene Zarembka

Kinaaldá: a Navajo girl grows up Monty Roessel

The Salsbury story; a medical missionary's lifetime of public service Clarence Grant Salsbury

USKids History: Book of the American Indians Marlene Smith-Baranzini

Those incredible women of World War II Karen Zeinert

The People Speak: Dramatic Readings Celebrating the Enduring Spirit of Dissent Howard Zinn Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 5

Secondary

NAVAJO

Navahos have five fingers T. D. Allen

A history of the Navajos: the reservation years Garrick Alan Bailey

Beyond the four corners of the world: a Navajo woman's journey Emily Benedek

When Navajos had too many sheep: the 1940's George A. Boyce

The Navajo Jennifer Denetdale

With a Camera in Old Navaholand Earle Forrest

The enduring Navaho Laura Gilpin

Paint the Wind Spin a Silver Dollar: The Story of a Desert Trading Post Alberta Hannum, with paintings by Beatien Yazz

Diné: a history of the Navajos For our Navajo people: Diné letters, speeches & petitions, 1900-1960 We are still here: American Indians in the twentieth century Peter Iverson

The Navaho door; an introduction to Navaho life Alexander H Leighton

Children of the people; the Navaho individual and his development Dorothea Cross Leighton

The book of the Navajo Raymond Friday Locke

We'll Be in Your Mountains, We'll Be in Your Songs Ellen McCullough-Brabson & Marilyn Help

Miracle Hill: the story of a Navaho boy Emerson Blackhorse Mitchell

Navaho Neighbors Hosteen Klah, Navaho medicine man and sand painter Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 6

Franc Johnson Newcomb

Dezba: woman of the desert Gladys A. Reichard

A Voice in Her Tribe Irene Stewart

The Navajos; the past and present of a great people John Upton Terrell

Navajos’ Long Walk for Education Hildegard Thompson

Here Come the Navaho Ruth Underhill

BOARDING SCHOOLS

Education for extinction: American Indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928 David Wallace Adams

Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000 Margaret L. Archuleta, Brenda J. Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima, editors

Boarding school seasons: American Indian families, 1900-1940 Brenda Child

American Indian children at school, 1850-1930 Michael C Coleman

To live on this earth; American Indian education Estelle Fuchs

Resistance and renewal: surviving the Indian residential school Celia Haig-Brown

The Real All Americans Sally Jenkins

They Called it Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School K. Tsianina Lomawaima

Battlefield and classroom; four decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904 Richard Henry Pratt

White Grizzly Bear’s Legacy: Learning to be Indian Lawney Reyes

Education and the American Indian: the road to self-determination, 1928-1973 Margaret Szasz

The Phoenix Indian School: forced assimilation in Arizona, 1891-1935 Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 7

Robert A. Trennert

WORLD WAR II

American Indians and World War II Alison Bernstein

Winds of freedom: the story of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II Margaret Bixler

Navy Nurse Page Cooper

Nurses in action Julia O. Flikke

Crossing the Pond: The Native American Effort in World War II Jere Bishop Franco

Serving Proudly: A History of Women in the US Navy Susan Godson

One woman's war: letters home from the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1946 Anne Bosanko Green

Carl Gorman’s World Henry & Georgia Greenberg

They also served: American women in World War II Olga Gruhzit-Hoyt

They called them angels: American military nurses of World War II Kathi Jackson

Navajos and World War II Broderick H. Johnson, editor

We're in this war, too: World War II letters from American women in uniform American women in a world at war: contemporary accounts from World War II Judy Barrett Litoff & David C. Smith

Quiet heroines: nurses of the Second World War Brenda McBryde

Navajo weapon S. McClain

Code Talker: The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII Chester Nez

Cadet nurse stories: the call for and response of women during World War II Thelma M. Robinson & Paulie M. Perry Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 8

A half acre of hell: a combat nurse in WW II Avis Schorer

It's good to be alive Henrietta Bruce Sharon

"The good war": an oral history of World War Two Studs Terkel

The Army and the Navajo Gerald Thompson

G.I. nightingales: the Army Nurse Corps in World War II Barbara Tomblin

World War II and the American Indian Kenneth William Townsend

American women's history American women and World War II Doris Weatherford

Mother was a gunner's mate: World War II in the Waves Josette Dermody Wingo

Our mothers' war: American women at home and at the Front during World War II Emily Yellin

MEDICINE

The people's health; medicine and anthropology in a Navajo community John Adair

The scalpel and the silver bear Lori Arviso Alvord

Medicine women, curanderas, and women doctors Bobette Perrone

Blood and Voice: Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners Maureen Trudelle Schwarz

White man's medicine: government doctors and the Navajo, 1863-1955 Robert A. Trennert

GENERAL

To live in two worlds: American Indian youth today Brent Ashabranner

Red children in white America Ann Beuf Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 9

The complete idiot's guide to Native American history Walter C Fleming

Stolen From Our Embrace Suzanne Fournier and Ernie Crey

First person, first peoples: native American college graduates tell their life stories Andrew Garrod, editor

Reinventing the enemy's language: contemporary native women's writings of North America Joy Harjo, editor

Native Americans American Indian stereotypes in the world of children: a reader and bibliography Native heritage: personal accounts by American Indians, 1790 to the present Arlene B Hirschfelder

Red power: the American Indians' fight for freedom Alvin Josephy

As Long as the Grass Shall Grow Oliver La Farge

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen

We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History Nathaniel May and Clint Willis, editors

Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans Alison Owings

Growing up Native American: an anthology Patricia Riley, editor

All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) Catherine Robbins

Through Indian eyes: the native experience in books for children Beverly Slapin

Native Americans in children's literature Jon Stott

Voices of a People’s History of the United States Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove

FILM & VIDEO

Windtalkers Rabbit Proof Fence In the Heart of Big Mountain Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 10

True Whispers: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School

WEBSITES

CURRENT & HISTORICAL NATIVE AMERICAN INFORMATION http://oyate.org/ Oyate Native organization http://64.38.12.138/default.asp Indianz Internet Resource http://www.nativevoicemedia.com/about.html The Native Voice newspaper http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/ Indian Country Native American Indian News Source http://www.dickshovel.com/jank.html American Indian Stereotypes http://www.dickshovel.com/www.html First Nations site index http://www.enduringspirit.org/ Native Action Network http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-2/current.htm Current Conditions of Native Americans http://www.bia.gov/FAQs/index.htm Bureau of Indian Affairs Frequently Asked Questions http://www.bluecorncomics.com/essntial.htm The Essential Facts About Indians Today http://lib.asu.edu/labriola Labriola American Indian Data Center http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/indians.html Native American home pages http://www.native-languages.org/ Native Languages of the Americas http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/ American Indians in Children’s Literature

NAVAJO/DINÉ Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 11 http://navajopeople.org/ Navajo People - The Diné http://www.lapahie.com/index.cfm Portal to the Navajo Intranet http://www.lapahie.com/Timeline_USA_1848_1868.cfm Navajo Timeline http://www.lapahie.com/Dine_Clans.cfm Diné clans http://www.lapahie.com/Dine_Treaty.cfm Navajo Treaty of 1868 http://www.lapahie.com/Navajo_Map_Sh.cfm Navajo Reservation map http://www.native-languages.org/navajo.htm Navajo Indian Language http://dine.sanjuan.k12.ut.us/index.html Diné Education Web http://www.ihs.gov/FacilitiesServices/AreaOffices/Navajo/index.asp Navajo Area Indian Health Service http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/american/navajoland/yestertoday.html The Navajo: Yesterday and Today (series of essays) http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maps/houses/hogan.html Navajo Hogan http://www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w188/i14.htm Navajo hogans and statistics

BOARDING SCHOOLS http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/erdrich/boarding/ About Indian Boarding Schools http://home.epix.net/~landis/index.html Carlisle Indian School website http://www.wordsasweapons.com/indianschool.htm On Sacred Ground: Commemorating Survival and Loss at the Carlisle School http://www.twofrog.com/rezsch.html The Reservation Boarding School System in the United States, 1870 -1928 http://clio.missouristate.edu/lburt/Resources510/BoardingSchools_1.htm Brainwashing and Boarding Schools Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 12 http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/marr.html Assimilation Through Education: Indian Boarding Schools in the Pacific Northwest http://www.amnestyusa.org/node/87342 Soul Wound: The Legacy of Native American Schools http://www.chemawa.bie.edu/ Chemawa Indian School website http://www.smis1902.org/index.shtml St Michael Indian School http://www.bie.edu/ Bureau of Indian Education http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fpr33 Richard Henry Pratt biography http://www.ihbc.org.uk/context_archive/71/mission/arizona.html Ganado Mission/Sage School of Nursing article http://www.sagememorial.org/smh_history.html Sage Memorial Hospital history

WORLD WAR II http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/pacificwar/timeline.htm Timeline of World War II in the Pacific http://www.lapahie.com/NavajoCodeTalker.cfm Navajo Code Talkers http://bingaman.senate.gov/features/codetalkers/ Navajo Code Talkers http://www.defense.gov/specials/americanindian/wwii.html American Indians in World War II http://www.defense.gov/specials/americanindian/factsheet.html Navajo Code Talkers fact sheet http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/americanindian/women.html Native American Women Veterans http://www.nativewomenveterans.org/ Native Women Veterans http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq87-3b.htm Oral Histories of World War II: Navy Nurse http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/72-14/72-14.htm The Army Nurse Corps Living Voices Native Vision bibliography 13 http://156.112.98.23/faqs/faq61-4.htm Navajo Code Talkers Dictionary http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm Navajo Code Talkers: World War II Fact Sheet http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exmeacom.html The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II

GENERAL

Human Rights Watch: Defending Human Rights Worldwide http://hrw.org/

Youth for Human Rights http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/

Anti-Defamation League: A World of Difference Institute Anti-Bias Education & Diversity Training http://www.adl.org/education/edu_awod/default.asp

The Southern Poverty Law Center http://www.tolerance.org/

Facing History and Ourselves http://www.facinghistory.org/

American Civil Liberties Union http://www.aclu.org/

Library of Congress Primary Source Sets http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/

History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/