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CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY Earlene J. Moore, Paul Meek Library for the seventh annual Civil Rights Conference held at the University of Tennessee at Martin, February 26-March 3, 2007. Classification numbers for materials available at the Paul Meek Library follow entries in bold type, other entries may be requested through Interlibrary Loan. Please report errors or omissions to: [email protected]. From http://www.indigenouspeople.net/pledge.htm : The Indian Pledge of Allegiance: I pledge allegiance to my Tribe, to the democratic principles of the Republic and to the individual freedoms borrowed from the Iroquois and Choctaw Confederacies, as incorporated in the United States Constitution, so that my forefathers shall not have died in vain. Books, Book Chapters, Reports Alcatraz: Indian Land Forever. ed. Johnson, Troy R. Los Angeles: Regents of the University of California, c1995. American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk. ed. Johnson, Troy; Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. E78.C15 A2 Banks, Dennis and Richard Erdoes. Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c2004. E99.C6 B258 Basic Call to Consciousness. ed. Akwesasne notes. Rev. ed. Summertown, Tenn. : Native Voices, c2005. E99.I7 B23 Brand, Johanna. The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash. Toronto: J. Lorimer & Co., 1993. E99.M6 A693 Brown, Gail. "Wounded Knee: A Conflict of Interpretation," in Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape. ed. Paul A. Shackel. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 102-118. Electronic Resource Cheatham, Kae. Dennis Banks: Native American Activist. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, c1997. E99.C6 B263 Churchill, Ward and Jim Vander Wall. Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, c2002, 1988. HV8144.F43 C46 Commission on the Rights, Liberties, and Responsibilities of the American Indian. The Indian, America's Unfinished Business; Report. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1966. E93 .C72 Cornell, Stephen E. Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence. New York: Oxford University Press, c1988. E93 .C79 Cultural Representation in Native America. ed. Jolivette, Andrew. Lanham, MD: Altamira Press, c2006. E99.E85 C85 Deloria, Vine. “Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation.” American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk. ed. Johnson, Troy; Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. E78.C15 A2 Deloria, Vine. Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties; an Indian Declaration of Independence. New York, Delacorte Press, c1974. E93 .D35 Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1980. E98.P99 D74 Eagle, Adam Fortunate. Alcatraz! Alcatraz!: The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, c1992. Encyclopedia of American Indian Civil Rights. ed. Olson, James S., Mark Baxter, Joseph M. Tetzloff, and Darren Pierson. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1997. KF8210. C5 E53 Gedicks, Al. The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against Multinational Corporations. Boston: South End Press, c1993. E99.C6 G44 Gonzalez, Mario and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1999. E99.T34 G65 Hendricks, Steve. The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, c2006. The Indian Bill of Rights, 1968. ed. Wunder, John R. New York: Garland Pub., c1996. Johnson, Troy and Donald Fixico. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1996. Johnson, Troy, Duane Champagne and Joane Nagel. “American Indian Activism and Transformation: Lessons from Alcatraz.” Contemporary Native American Political Issues. ed. Troy R. Johnson. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, c1999. Kipp, Woody. Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2004. E99.P58 A3 Long, Carolyn Nestor. Religious Freedom and Indian Rights: The Case of Oregon v. Smith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c2000. KF228.O74 L66 Nagel, Joane. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, c1996. E98.E85 N34 Native American Rights. ed. Roleff, Tamara L. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, c1998. Peltier, Leonard. Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sundance. New York: St. Martin's Press, c1999. E99.03 P45 Pevar, Stephen L. Rights of Indians and Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian and Tribal Rights. 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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c2002. KF224.B36 S74 Talking Back to Civilization: Indian Voices from the Progressive Era. ed. with an introduction by Frederick E. Hoxie. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2001. E93 .T215 Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy. ed. King, C. Richard and Charles Fruehling Springwood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2001. GV714.5 .K56 They Made Us Many Promises: The American Indian Experience, 1524 to the Present. ed. Weeks, Philip. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, Inc., c2002. E77.2 .T44 United States Commission on Civil Rights. The Indian Civil Rights Act: A Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, D.C.?: The Commission, c1991. KF8210.C5 U56 United States Commission on Civil Rights. Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival. Washington, D.C.?: The Commission, c1981. KF8210.C5 U6 United States Commission on Civil Rights. 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