Recommended Reading

Tribal Language and Culture

Broker, Ignatia. Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1983.

Hinton, Leann. How to Keep Your Language Alive. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2002.

Johnston, Basil. Ojibway Heritage. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Kegg, Maude. Portage Lake: Memories of an Ojibwe Childhood. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

Moose, Lawrence L., et al. Aaniin Ekidong: Ojibwe Vocabulary Project. St. Paul: Minnesota Humanities Center, 2009.

Nichols, John D., and Earl Nyholm (Otchingwanigan). A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

Treuer, Anton. Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001.

Early History

Blackhawk, Ned. Violence over the Land. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.

Copway, George. The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation. London: Charles Gilpin, 1850. Reprinted in the United States as Indian Life and Indian History, by an Indian Author: Embracing the Traditions of the North American Indians Regarding Themselves, Particularly of That Most Important of All the Tribes, the Ojibways. Boston: Albert Cosby and Company, 1858.

Josephy, Alvin. 500 Nations. New York: Pimlico, 2005.

Koning, Hans. Columbus: His Enterprise. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1991.

Kugel, Rebecca. To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825–1898. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1998.

Mann, Charles. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus. New York: Knopf, 2005.

Meyer, Melissa. The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

Miller, Cary. Ogimaag: Anishinaabeg Leadership, 1760–1845. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

Rethinking Columbus. Milwaukee, WI: Rethinking Schools, 1991.

Schenck, Theresa. The Voice of the Crane Echoes Afar: The Sociopolitical Organization of the Lake Superior Ojibwa, 1640–1855. New York: Garland, 1997.

Tanner, Helen Hornbeck, ed. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.

Treuer, Anton. The Assassination of Hole in the Day. St. Paul, MN: Borealis Books, 2011.

Warren, William W. History of the Ojibway People. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1984. Originally published as History of the Ojibways Based upon Traditions and Oral Statements (1885).

Legal History

Duthu, N. Bruce. American Indians and the Law. London: Penguin Books, 2008.

Getches, David H., and Charles F. Wilkinson. Federal Indian Law: Cases and Materials. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1986.

Wilkins, David. American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Contemporary History and Government Indian Policy

Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Child, Brenda. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900–1940. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Fixico, Donald L. Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945–1960. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Graves, Kathy David, and Elizabeth Ebbott. Indians in Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Hoxie, Frederick. A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880–1920. New York: Routledge, 2001.

Olson, James, and Raymond Wilson. Native Americans in the Twentieth Century. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indian. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.

Russell, Steve. Sequoyah Rising: Problems in Post-Colonial Tribal Governance. Raleigh, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.

Treuer, Anton. Ojibwe in Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2010.

Perspectives and Philosophy

Berkhofer, Robert. The White Man’s Indian. New York: Knopf, 1978.

Deloria, Philip. Playing Indian. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.

Deloria, Vine Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York: Macmillan, 1969.

Deloria, Vine Jr. Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact. New York: Scribner, 1995.

Lyons, Scott. X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

Russell, Steve. Sequoyah Rising: Problems in Post-Colonial Tribal Governance. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2010.

Weatherford, Jack. Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1991.

Literature

Alexie, Sherman. Reservation Blues. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1995.

Erdrich, Louise. Tracks. New York: Harper Collins, 1988.

Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper Collins, 1966.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York: Penguin, 2006. Treuer, David. The Translation of Dr. Appelles. New York: Random House, 2008.

Video Documentaries

500 Nations (1995)

The Dakota Conflict (1993)

First Speakers: Restoring the Ojibwe Language (2010)

Geronimo and the Apache Resistance (2007)

Incident at Oglala (2004)

Lighting the 7th Fire (1995)

Waasa Inaabidaa (2002)

We Shall Remain (2010)

Woodlands: Story of the Mille Lacs Ojibwe (1994)