"The Canary Effect"
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