NATIVES READ TOO
NATIVES READ TOO
Browsing the internet, found some free PDFs to read:
Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples by Andrea Smith (article)«li
All Our Relations Native Struggles: Land and Life by Winona LaDuke
Lakote Woman by Mary Crow Dog
Lovely Hula Hands by Haunani Kay-Trask
Custer Died for Your Sins- An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr.
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.
The Case of Leonard Peltier by Arthur J. Miller and Pio Celestino (zine)
Cultural Appropriation or Cultural Appreciation? (zine)
Headdress (a small zine on native appropriation)
Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century (zine)
Indian Education by Sherman Alexie
You have here, writings that detail Indigenous topics covering or in the style of: manifestos, creative writings, political, cultural, “feminist”, environment/ecosystems, and Natural Law.
Enjoy the readings!
Didn’t know this. BOOST
I would add Schumacher lectures by John Mohawk, and another by Oren Lyons titled ‘The Ice is Melting’. Not pdf’s but available online in their entirety.
Hi so because this post is ten years old none of the links work except the Hula Hands article. So I tracked them down and added them to my gdrive of decolonial academia.
The following are available in the Red Power folder:
Daniel M. Cobb (2016) Native Peoples of North America, The Teaching Company
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (2020) As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, Beacon Press
Glen Sean Coulthard (2014) Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition, University of Minnesota Press
Jessica Hernandez (2022) Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science, North Atlantic Books
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (2017) As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, University of Minnesota Press
Leonard Peltier (1999) Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance, St. Martin’s Publishing Group
Linda Tuhiwai Smith (2012) Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, Zed Books
Mary Crow Dog (1991) Lakota Woman, Harper Perennial
Nancy J. Turner (2014) Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples, McGill-Queen’s University Press
Nick Estes (2019) Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, Verso Books
Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Milkweed Editions
Robin Wall Kimmerer (2001) Gathering Moss; A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Milkweed Editions
The Red Nation (2021) The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth, Common Notions
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Sanna and Jarno Valkonen (eds) (2018) Knowing from the Indigenous North: Sámi Approaches to History, Politics and Belonging, Routledge
Vine Deloria Jr. (1988) Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, University of Oklahoma Press
Vine Deloria Jr. (1973) God Is Red: A Native View Of Religion, Fulcrum Publishing
Vine Deloria Jr. (1997) Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact, Fulcrum Publishing
Winona LaDuke (1999) All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, South End Press
Sub-folder Red History:
Troy R. Johnson, (2007) Red Power: The Native American Civil Rights Movement (Landmark Events in Native American History), Chelsea House Pub
David Treuer (2019) The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, Little, Brown Book Group
Dee Brown (2017) The Native American Experience (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee; Fetterman Massacre; Creek Mary’s Blood), Open Road Media
Dennis Banks, Richard Erdoes (2005) Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks And The Rise Of The American Indian Movement, University of Oklahoma Press
K. Tsianina Lomawaima (1995) They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School, University of Nebraska Press
Patrick Wolfe (1999) Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology; The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, Cassell
Peter Matthiessen (1992) In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and FBI’s War on the American Indian Movement, Penguin Books
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014) An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States, Beacon Press
Sarah Alisabeth Fox (2014) Downwind: A Peoples History of the Nuclear West, University of Nebraska Press
Ward Churchill (1997) A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present, City Lights Books
Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall (1988) Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, South End Press
Articles and Zines:
Colonization and Decolonization: A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century, Warrior Publications (zine)
Headdress (2010) (zine)
Sherman Alexie (1993) Indian Education (short story)
Native American Struggles: Leonard Peltier and Norma Jean Croy, Social Justice Vol. 20, No. 1-2, Rethinking Race (Spring-Summer 1993), pp 172–175
Conger Beasley Jr. (1998) Looking for Leonard Peltier, North American Review, Vol. 283, pg 64–71
Andrea Smith (2003) Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples, Hypatia, Vol. 18, No. 2, Indigenous Women in the Americas, pp 70–85
Patrick Wolfe (2006) Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native, Journal of Genocide Research, 8:4, 387–409
Troy R. Johnson (2009) Red Power and the American Indian Movement: Different Times, Different Places, Reviews in American History, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp 420–425
Danielle Endres (2011) American Indian Activism and Audience: Rhetorical Analysis of Leonard Peltier’s Response to Denial of Clemency, Communication Reports, 24:1, pg 1–11
There are essential decolonial texts in the Decolonization folder, so look through them as well. I haven’t read Guillaume Blanc and Hamza Hamouchene’s books on Green Colonialism myself but the subject is a fascinating look at the ties between environmentalism and white supremacy and how Landback is tied to climate justice.
You can find The Schumacher Lectures here and buy The Ice Is Melting by Oren Lyons for USD 0.99.
As always, do try and support the authors if you have the resources to do so.
