Preface

Foreword

Jose Barreiro

1 PEOPLES AND NATIONS: FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE ANCESTORS

Hearing the Song

William Stafford

1 THE AMERICAN INDIANS

Edward H. Spicer

Map of Native Peoples and Nations in Central and North America

Map of Native Peoples and Nations in South America

2 INDIANS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO

Julian Burger

3 THE CANDIAN NATIVES

Anthony Long

Katherine Beaty Chiste

4 BASIC CONCEPTS FOR UNDERSTANDING NATIVE HISTORY AND CULTURE

Jack D. Forbes

Native American Statistics--United States

5 TO THE U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, NATIVE AMERICANS ARE PRACTICALLY INVISIBLE

John Anner

6 ETHNIC FRAUD, NATIVE PEOPLES, AND HIGHER EDUCATION

D. Michael Pavel (Skokomish)

Timothy Sanchez (Jemez San Felipe Pueblo)

Amber Machamer (Chumash)

2 THE HIDDEN HERITAGE

Secrets from the Center of the World

Jay Harjo

1 MIS MISA: THE POWER WITHIN AKOO-YET THAT PROTECTS THE WORLD

Darryl Wilson

2 THE MOUND BUILDERS

Carl Waldman

Map of the Temple Mound Builders

3 PERCEPTIONS OF AMERICA'S NATIVE DEMOCRACIES: THE SOCIETIES COLONIAL AMERICANS OBSERVED

Donald A. Grinde, Jr.

Bruce E. Johansen

4 ONE MORE SMILE FOR A HOPI CLOWN

Emory Sekaquaptewa

5 LATIN AMERICA'S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: CHANGING IDENTITIES AND FORMS OF RESISTANCE

Michael Kearney

Stefano Varese

6 MEXICO: THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY

Alexander Ewen

3 THE AMERICAN INDIAN STORY (HISTORY)

Five Hundred Years Dwelling among Savages

Darryl Babe Wilson

1 THE BLACK HILLS: THE SACRED LAND OF THE LAKOTA AND TSISTSISTAS

Mario Gonzalez

Map of Land Areas Claimed by the Lakota in the Indian Claims Commission

2 THE REDISCOVERY OF HAWAIIAN SOVEREIGNTY

Poka Laenui

3 THE SWORD AND THE CROSS: THE MISSIONS OF CALIFORNIA

Jeannette Henry Costo

The Crime of Genocide: A United Nations Convention Aimed at Preventing Destruction of Groups and at Punishing Those Responsible

4 THE BIA RELOCATION PROGRAM

Ray Moisa

5 DIRECTIONS IN PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS

John Mohawk

The 20-Point Program

4 "THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN...": RACISM, STEREOTYPES, AND DISCRIMINATION

Columbus Day

Jimmie Durham

1 INVENTING THE AMERICAN INDIAN

Bernard L. Fontana

2 THE POCAHONTAS PERPLEX: THE IMAGE OF INDIAN WOMEN IN AMERICAN CULTURE

Rayna Green

Why One Can't Ignore "Pocahontas"

Cornel Pewewardy

3 LINGERING SHADOWS (MOVIE STEREOTYPES)

Raymond William Stedman

Indian-named Mascots: An Assault on Self-Esteem

Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji)

4 RENEGADES, TERRORISTS, AND REVOLUTIONARIES: THE GOVERNMENT'S PROPAGANDA WAR AGAINST THE AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT

Ward Churchill

Free Leonard Peltier

Steve Talbot

5 ALL MY RELATIONS: FAMILY AND EDUCATION

Indian Education Blues

Ed Edmo

1 ASGAYA-DIHI

Wilma Mankiller

Michael Wallis

2 AKIAK AND THE YUPIIT NATION

A. Oscar Kawagley

3 THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE HAS AWAKENED AND IS ENJOYING CREATION THROUGH US: AN INTERVIEW WITH JEANETTE ARMSTRONG, OKANAGAN

Dagmar Thorpe

Reservation Schools Fail to Assimilate All Students

Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji)

4 CIVILIZE THEM WITH A STICK

Mary Crow Dog

Richard Erdoes

5 URBAN AMERICAN INDIAN PRESCHOOL

Susan Lobo

Survival Schools: The Mohawks in Montreal

6 TRIBAL COLLEGES: A STUDY OF SURVIVAL The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Map of Tribal Colleges

6 SPIRITUALITY

Missionaries

Floyd Red Crow Westerman

Jimmy Curtiss

1 ALONE ON THE HILLTOP

John (Fire) Lame Deer

Richard Erdoes

2 MY WORLD IS A GIFT OF MY TEACHERS

Frank R. LaPena

3 DISCRIMINATION AND NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS RIGHTS

Senator Daniel K. Inouye

Indians Are Not Specimens--Indians Are People

4 BATTLING FOR SOULS: ORGANIZING THE RETURN OF THE SACRED TEXTILES TO THE COMMUNITY OF COROMA, BOLIVIA

Victoria Bomberry

Zuni Repatriation of War Gods

Roger Anyon

5 THE GREAT PRETENDERS: FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON WHITESHAMANISM

Wendy Rose

7 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

It Was That Indian

Simon J. Ortiz

1 INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVES: A NORTH AMERICAN PRIMER

Winona LaDuke

2 NATIVE AMERICAN LABOR AND PUBLIC POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES

Alice Littlefield

3 THE DEALER'S EDGE: GAMING IN THE PATH OF NATIVE AMERICA

Tim Johnson

4 ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS TO CATCH FISH

NARF Legal Review

Palm Oil in Ecuador

5 LOVELY HULA HANDS: CORPORATE TOURISM AND THE PROSTITUTION OF HAWAIIAN CULTURE

Haunani-Kay Trask

8 COMMUNITY WELL-BEING: HEALTH, WELFARE, AND JUSTICE

Old Man in the Moon (Yoem O'ola Um Maala Mechapo)

Andrianna Escalante

Frances Delgado

1 YES IS BETTER THAN NO

Byrd Baylor

2 GATHERING

Gary Paul Nabhan

Delfina Cuero: Her Autobiography

Florence Connolly Shipek

3 THE EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ALCOHOL ABUSE AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS: THE MYTHICAL AND REAL PROPERTIES

Philip A. May

4 YOUNG ONCE, INDIAN FOREVER

Joan Smith

5 PUNISHING INSTITUTIONS: THE STORY OF CATHERINE (CEDAR WOMAN)

Luana Ross

9 NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS, STRUGGLE, AND REVITALIZATION

Indianismo!

Tom LaBlanc

1 VOICES OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Epilogue

Oren Lyons

North America

Ingrid Washinawatok-El Issa

Central and South America

Jose Barreiro

2 REFLECTIONS OF ALCATRAZ

Lanada Boyer

Roots of Contemporary Native American Activism

Troy R. Johnson

3 NUXALK RISK FREEDOM: CANADIANS FIGHT CONGLOMERATE, GOVERNMENT TO STOP CLEAR-CUTTING

Avis Little Eagle

4 JOURNEY TO THE SOUTH: GUATEMALA REMEMBERED BY AN INDIAN WOMAN FROM TESUQUE PUEBLO

K'uu Yaa Tsa-wa (Vickie Downey)

Our Situation in Guatemala

Rigoberta Menchu

5 THE SIZE AND STATUS OF NATIONS

Vine Deloria, Jr.

6 A "NEW PARTNERSHIP" FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: CAN THE UNITED NATIONS MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

Russel Lawrence Barsh

Closing Address

Phillip Deere

Message for the Work Ahead

John Mohawk

Appendix A: Native Media

Appendix B: Indigenous Peoples' Organizations

Credits

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