Native Americans: Books & Videos
Overviews
- Native Studies Keywords byPublication Date: 2015Explores 8 concepts in Native studies & the words commonly used to describe them: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, & indigenous knowledge. Each section includes 3 or 4 essays with definitions & significance of the concept, within a historical, social, & political context.
Videos
- We the 7th byPublication Date: 2016Travels to Standing Rock and explores the Native American community in West Michigan.
108 minutes in 2 parts. - First Peoples : Americas byCall Number: streaming videoPublication Date: 2015As early humans spread out across the world, their toughest challenge was colonizing the Americas - because a huge ice sheet blocked the route. It has long been thought that the pioneers, known as Clovis people, arrived about 13,000 years ago, but a discovery in Mexico suggests people arrived earlier than previously thought - and by boat, not on foot. How closely related were these First Americans to today's Native Americans?
- Contemporary Native American authorsCall Number: streaming video seriesPublication Date: 1997lectures/interviews
Books
- Literature by Native American authorsE-books and books at GVSU. Use the left menu to narrow the list.
- Native Traces series*Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America
*Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period
*Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies
E-Books: Tribal Nations & Academics
- Handbook on Indigenous Education byCall Number: e-bookPublication Date: 2019Indigenous researchers wrote this work about and for themselves about language, culture and identity, early childhood education, teacher education, curriculum, pedagogy, educational psychology, etc.
- Indigenous Innovations in Higher Education byCall Number: e-bookPublication Date: 2017Indigenous authors explore why and how they are shifting educational efforts to an Indigenous center to serve their peoples.
- Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education byCall Number: e-bookPublication Date: 2018Native scholars have started to develop their own research methodologies and paradigms that are based in tribal knowledge systems and values, and that allow inherent Indigenous knowledge and lived experiences to strengthen the research.
- Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays byPublication Date: 1996Classic essays by feminist intellectual, poet and literary scholar, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, about issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. She asks questions of critical importance to tribal people.
- Critically Sovereign: indigenous gender, sexuality, and feminist studies byCall Number: ebookPublication Date: 2017Addresses gender, sexuality, & feminism in Native American & Indigenous sovereignty, colonial space, "Indianness," & the connections between queer theory & colonialism within Indigenous studies.
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