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• In Defense of Wyam

  Native-White Alliances & the Struggle for Celilo Village

  Barber, Katrine,

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  When the US Army Corps of Engineers began planning construction of The Dalles Dam at Celilo Village in the mid-twentieth century, it was clear that this traditional fishing, commerce, and social site of immense importance to Native tribes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are the Land

  a History of Native California

  Akins, Damon B., 1971-

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• Chinook Resilience

  Heritage and Cultural Revitalization on the Lower Columbia River

  Daehnke, Jon Darin,

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  A deep dive into the culture, beliefs and history of the Chinook peoples.

• Northern Paiutes of the Malheur

  High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country

  Wilson, David H., Jr.,

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• Haboo

  Native American Stories From Puget Sound

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• American Indian Identity

  Citizenship, Membership, and Blood

  Edmo, Se-ah-dom,

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• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Native America From 1890 to the Present

  Treuer, David,

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  David Treuer is an Ojibwe writer, critic and academic. He presents a sweeping history-and counter-narrative-of Native American life from the Wounded Knee Massacre to the present.

• My Life

  Kenoyer, Louis, 1868-1937,

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• Yakama Rising

  Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing

  Jacob, Michelle M., 1977-

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  The Yakama Nation of present day Washington State has responded to more than a century of historical trauma with a resurgence of grass roots activism and cultural revitalization.

• Standoff

  Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands

  Keeler, Jacqueline,

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• Northwest Voices

  Language and Culture in the Pacific Northwest

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• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  Historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  Dunbar-Ortiz's work, written for young readers.

• Two Hundred Years of Changes to Native Peoples of Western Oregon

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  Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Oregon's tribes and bands have witnessed great losses of land to federal government allotment programs, death from European diseases and the loss of culture and language from assimilation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Dangerous Idea

  The Alaska Native Brotherhood and the Struggle for Indigenous Rights

  Metcalfe, Peter

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  Throughout the early twentieth century, the Alaska Native Brotherhood fought for citizenship, voting rights, and education for all Alaska Natives, securing unheard-of victories in a contentious time.

• Native Space

  Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism

  Barnd, Natchee Blu,

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  Native Space explores how Indigenous communities and individuals sustain and create geographies through place-naming, everyday cultural practices, and artistic activism, within the boundaries of the settler colonial nation of the United…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Encounters at the Heart of the World

  a History of the Mandan People

  Fenn, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), 1959-

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• Surviving Genocide

  Native Nations and the United States From the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas

  Ostler, Jeffrey,

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  The author is a professor at the University of Oregon, where he specializes in the history of the American West, with a particular focus on American Indian history.

• Surviving Canada

  Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal

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  A collection of elegant, thoughtful and powerful reflections about Indigenous Peoples' complicated, and often frustrating, relationship with Canada, and how even 150 years after Confederation the fight for recognition of their treaty and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Highway of Tears

  a True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

  McDiarmid, Jessica,

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