Robert M. Schwartz
Alexie, Sherman.
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
. New York: HarperPerennial, 1994. Collection of short stories by the ubiquitous American Indian Author that features the short story
This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
, the basis for the film
Smoke Signals
.
Blackhawk, Ned.
Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006. Exploring through instances of violence the history of Native Americans, with an introduction that stresses the gap in academia of such a study. Helped put the latter emphasis into perspective for this curricular unit.
Deloria Jr., Vine.
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1969. Intensive and certainly intense, Deloria’s deftly researched and punchy manifesto on Native American history and the need for change and awareness.
Hansberry, Lorraine.
A Raisin in the Sun
. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. Hansberry’s classic American drama about the Younger family, a working class African-American family in 1950’s Chicago struggling with disenfranchisement and longing for the American Dream.
Taylor, Alan.
American Colonies: The Settling of North America
. New York: Penguin Books, 2001. Includes early histories of American Indians.
Wilkinson, Charles.
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nation
s. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2005. A vast and legal history of American Indian struggles and battles through the modern day to restore sovereignty.