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"Hearts that yearn to touch the sky must trade the world for wings" - Annie Humphrey, The Heron Smiled

Just A Thought

The dominant group always writes history. It is important to realize that the harsh reality is all too often left out of the historical record (especially the mainstream historical record). Open your eyes, ears, heart, and mind...only then can you begin to understand what has been buried in the dirt. Grab a shovel and dig up the truth.

The great lie is that it is civilization. Its not civilized. It has been literally the most blood-thirsty, brutalizing system ever imposed on this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie…is that it represents civilization. That's the great lie. Or…if it does represent civilization, and that’s truly what civilization is, then the great lie is that civilization is good for us. - John Trudell: Trudell (the movie), 2005

I spoke out for many years against the injustices Native people suffer before they sent me into prison for speaking out and organizing against the human rights violations of our Mother Earth. I have not stopped speaking out just because my body has been locked away…This vocal opposition and my organizing work are the real reason they have put me in prison. - Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance

Important Things Dear to My Heart and Mind

Ojibwe http://www.ojibwe.org
Native American Studies http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/native
Native American Rights http://www.narf.org
Native American Activism http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAactivist.html
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation http://www.unitedindians.com/
American Indian Movement and its History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Movement
John Trudell http://www.johntrudell.com , http://www.trudellthemovie.com
Leonard Peltier http://www.freepeltier.org
Russell Means http://www.russellmeans.com
Heather Rae http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/Eng/rose/rae_h.htm
Annie Humphrey http://www.anniehumphrey.com

Movies Everyone Should Watch

On the Subject of Native American Studies:

Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story, 1991

Smoke Signals, 1998

Thunderheart, 1992 (a little too "Hollywood," I know, but the underlying political issues hit close to home)

Trudell, 2005

For Entertainment:

Liberty Heights, 1999

Rushmore, 1998

Books Everyone Should Read

On the Subject of Native American Studies:

Brown, Dee

1991 [1970] Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York: Henry Holt and Company.

Churchill, Ward, and Jim Vander Wall

2002 Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, Second Edition. Cambridge: South End Press.

1990 The Cointelpro Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Domestic Dissent. Boston: South End Press.

Deloria, Jr., Vine

2003 [1973] God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, 30th Anniversary edition. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing.

1977 Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York: Macmillan Publishing.

1974 Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties: An Indian Declaration of Independence. New York: Delacorte Press.

Deloria, Jr., Vine, and Clifford M. Lytle

1984 The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty. New York: Pantheon Books.

Deloria, Jr., Vine, and David E. Wilkins

1999 Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Erdrich, Louise

2003 Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.

Fortunate Eagle, Adam

2002 Heart of the Rock: The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Hendricks, Steve

2006 The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press.

Johnson, Troy R.

1996 The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Johnson, Troy R., Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne, eds.

1997 American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Josephy, Jr., Alvin M., Joane Nagel, and Troy Johnson, eds.

1999 Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom, 2nd edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Matthiessen, Peter

1991 In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. New York: Viking Penguin.

Peltier, Leonard

1999 Prison Writings: My Life is My Sun Dance. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Sayer, John William

1997 Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Stern, Kenneth S.

1994 Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Weyler, Rex

1984 Blood of the Land: The Government and Corporate War Against the American Indian Movement. New York: Random House.

Wilkinson, Charles

2005 Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

For Entertainment

Paolini, Christopher - Eragon; Eldest

Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix; Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Salinger, J.D. - The Catcher in the Rye