Native Americans

Categories within this guide :     Pueblos  |   Reference  |    Contemporary Issues   |  Government Relations  |
      Education and Missionaries    |   U.S. Military Service   |   Biographies  |  Fiction   |   Selected Journal Articles

 See also other Library Guides in this series on
      Anthropology, Archaeology, and Ethnology     |   Art: Architecture     |     Art: Painting and Sculpture
      Art:  Photography    |  Fort Burgwin and the Military in the West   |     Health and Healing    |
      New Mexico History    |   Religion, Mythology, and Folklore    |   Sciences: Astronomy    |   Sciences: Botany

Pueblos

For information about a specific Pueblo group, search PONI under the specific name (e.g., Acoma Pueblo, Cochiti Indians, etc.) as Subject.   For more general information, search Pueblo Indians as Subject.  Also, review the lists below for relevant titles.

Reference Books

A to Z of Native American Women (1998)
Dictionary of Native American Mythology (1994)
Documents of United States Indian Policy (1990)
Encyclopedia of Native American Biography (1997)
Encyclopedia of North American Indians (1996)
Encyclopedia of Native American Religions(1992)
Encyclopedia of American Indian Costume (1996)
Great Documents in American Indian History (1995)
Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom (1991)
Illustrated Atlas of Native American History (1999)
Native American Almanac (1993)
Native American History: A Chronology of a Culture’s Vast Achievements
    and Their Links to World Events (1996)
Native Americans in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia (1996)
Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian (1993)
Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country [modern-day profiles of pueblos, reservation] (1996)
Timelines of Native American History (1994)

Contemporary issues for Native Americans

American Indian Ethnic Renewal (1996)
American Indian in Urban Society (1971)
American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities (1996)
Ancient Drums, Other Moccasins: Native North American Cultural Adaptation (1988)
Battlefields and Burial Grounds: The Indian Struggle to Protect Ancestral Graves in the United States (1994)
Circle of Nations: Voices and Visions of American Indians (1993)
Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands
    and Peoples (1995)
Fatal Confrontation: Historical Studies of American Indians, Environment,
    and Historians (1996)
Gambler Way: Indian Gaming in Mythology, History, and Archaeology
    in North America (1996)
The Indian: America's Unfinished Business (1966)
Indian Drinking: Navajo Practices and Anglo-American Theories (1974)
Indian Tourism: Interviews with Tribal Governments [in New Mexico] (1998)
If You Poison Us: Uranium and the Native Americans (1994)
In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival  (1998)
Indian Heritage of America (1968)
Marxism and Native Americans (1983)
Native American Identities: From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature (1998)
Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: An American Tragedy (1994)
Neon Pow-Wow: New Native American Voices of the Southwest (1993)
Pow Wow: Images along the Red Road (1996)
Pueblo and Navajo Indian Life Today (1993)
Reclaiming the Vision: Native Voices for the Eighth Generation (1996)
Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century (1991)
Rethinking American Indian History (1997)
Sign Language: Contemporary Southwest Native American (1989)
State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance  (1992)
Tonto's Revenge: Reflections on American Indian Culture and Policy (1997)
Tribes and Tribulations: Misconceptions about American Indians and their Histories (1995)
Wild West Shows (1999)
Wild West Shows and Images of the American Indian`(1996)
The Wind Won’t Know Me: A History of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute (1993)

Government Relations

American Indian in Western Legal Thought (1990)
American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century (1985)
American Indian Tribal Governments (1989)
American Indian Water Rights and the Limits of the Law  (1991)
American Indians and the Federal Government (Dept. of the Interior, 1965)
American Indians: Time and the Law: Native Societies in a Modern Constitutional Democracy (1987)
Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority
Arbitrary Indian: The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990
Braid of Feathers: American Indian Law and Contemporary Tribal Life (1995)
Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1824-1977
Dispossessing the American Indian: Indians and Whites on the Colonial Frontier (1972)
Documents of United States Indian Policy (1990, Reference)
Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations, and the United States Constitution (1992)
Federal Control of the Western Apaches, 1848-1886
Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1971)
History of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1977)
Indian Depredation Claims, 1796-1920
Life and History of North America's Indian Reservations (1998)
Nations within: The Past and Future of American Indian Sovereignty (1984)
Native American Affairs and the Department of Defense (1996)
Navajo Ways in Government: A Study in Political Process (1963)
The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty (1980)
Sovereign Nations or Reservations?: An Economic History of American Indians (1995)
The Smithsonian and the American Indian (1994)
Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue Lake
Tribalism in Crisis: Federal Indian Policy, 1953-1961
Zuni and the Courts: A Struggle for Sovereign Land Rights (1995)
"The 'Making' of the Navajo Worker: Navajo Households, the Bureau of
    Indian Affairs, and off-Reservation Wage Work, 1948-1960," New
    Mexico Historical Review, 74:4 (October 1999)

Education and Missionaries

American Indian Policy in Crisis: Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865-1900 (Prucha, 1976)
Churches and the Indian Schools, 1888-1912
Educational Reform in New Mexico: Tireman, San Jose, and Nambe (1991)
Indian Education: Steps to Progress in the 70s (BIA, 1973)
One House, One Voice, One Heart: Native American Education at the Santa
    Fe Indian School (1990)
The Navajos’ Long Walk for Education: A History of Navajo Education (1975)
Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience (exhibit at Heard Museum, Phoenix)
Teaching American Indian Students (1992)

U.S. Military Service

American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs (1991)
American Indians in World War I (1997)
Twentieth-Century Warriors: Native American Participation in the United States Military (USDoD, 1996)
Winds of Freedom [about the Navajo Code Talkers in WWII] (1992)
Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers (1990)

Biographies

See also library guide in this series on Biographies
Search name of person as the Subject in PONI.

Campbell, Ben Nighthorse (1933- ; Congressman from Colorado; Cheyenne)
Crazy Horse (1842-1877; Oglala Chief)
Hale, Janet Campbell (1946- ; author; Skitswish)
Gorman, R. C. (1932- ; artist, Navaho)
Juh (d. 1883; Apache Chief)
Mankiller, Wilma (1945- ; former Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation)
Martinez, Maria (188?-1980; San Ildefonso Pueblo potter)
Means, Russell (1939- ; Native American activist)
Momaday, N. Scott (1934- ; writer)
Sitting Bull (1834?-1890; Sioux Chief)
Tafoya, Margaret (1904- ? ; Tewa potter)

Collective Biography

Brave Are My People: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten  (Waters, Frank)
Indian Lives: Essays on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Native-American Leaders

Fiction with Native Americans as central characters (selected titles in Fort Library)
    See also library guide in this series on  Literature: Native American Writers

Hillerman, Tony [Mysteries set in Navaho Nation in Four Corners area.
   [ For his objective depiction of the Navaho people, Hillerman was named a Navajo
    Special Friend.]
LaFarge, Oliver Laughing Boy
Momaday, N. Scott House Made of Dawn
Waters, Frank. Man Who Killed the Deer (Taos Pueblo)
Wood, Nancy Thunderwoman: A Mythic Novel of the Pueblos

Also, look for books by Louise Erdrich and Leslie Silko.

Selected Journal Articles

"Changing Pueblo Pottery Tradition: The Underside of Economic Development
        in Late Colonial New Mexico, 1750-1820," (Frank, Ross H.), Journal of the
        Southwest, 33:3 (Autumn 1991).
"Fairs, Expositions, and the Changing Image of Southwestern Indians, 1876-1904,"
        (Trennert, Robert A.), New Mexico Historical Review, 62:2 (April 1987).
"A Selected Guide to Sources on New Mexico Indians in the Modern Period,"
        New Mexico Historical Review, 60:4 (October 1985).
"Symbolism and SIgnificance of the Lincoln Canes for the Pueblos of New
        Mexico," (Dailey, Martha LaCroix), New Mexico Historical Review, 69:2 (April 1994).
"Where Did the Pueblo People Come From?" (Ellis, Florence Hawley),
      El Palacio, 74:3 (Autumn 1967).