"The Canary Effect"


Recommended Reading

Here is a list of excellent books for anyone interested in learning more about Native American people, their diverse cultures, their true history, and their treatment by the U.S. government.

CRAZY HORSE – Strange Man of the Oglalas
Mari Sandoz

CHEYENNE AUTUMN – An American Epic
Mari Sandoz

BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE – An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown

A CENTURY OF DISHONOR
Helen Hunt Jackson

THE NAME OF WAR – King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity
Jill Lepore

MONTH OF THE FREEZING MOON – The Sand Creek Massacre, November 1864
Duane Schultz

FACING WEST – The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building
Richard Drinnon

RED EARTH, WHITE LIES – Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact
Vine Deloria, Jr.

LIKE A LOADED WEAPON – The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America
Robert Williams, Jr.

AMERICAN HOLOCAUST – The Conquest of the New World
David E. Stannard

A LITTLE MATTER OF GENOCIDE – Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
Ward Churchill

IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE
Peter Mathiessen

MANKILLER – A Chief and Her People
Wilma Mankiller


The Mascot Issue

TEAM SPIRITS – The Native American Mascot Controversy
C. Richard King, and Charles Fruehling Springwood

DANCING AT HALFTIME – Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots
Carol Spindel

PROTEST AGAINST THE USE OF NATIVE AMERICAN MASCOTS – A Challenge to Traditional American Identity
Laurel R. Davis


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