CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS: A SELECTIVE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Earlene J. Moore, Paul Meek Library
for the seventh annual Civil Rights Conference held at the University of Tennessee at Martin,
February 26-March 3, 2007.
Classification numbers for materials available at the Paul Meek Library follow entries in bold
type, other entries may be requested through Interlibrary Loan. Please report errors or omissions
to: [email protected].
From http://www.indigenouspeople.net/pledge.htm : The Indian Pledge of Allegiance:
I pledge allegiance to my Tribe, to the democratic principles of the Republic and to the individual
freedoms borrowed from the Iroquois and Choctaw Confederacies, as incorporated in the United
States Constitution, so that my forefathers shall not have died in vain.
Books, Book Chapters, Reports
Alcatraz: Indian Land Forever. ed. Johnson, Troy R. Los Angeles: Regents of the
University of California, c1995.
American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk. ed. Johnson, Troy; Joane Nagel, and
Duane Champagne. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1997. E78.C15 A2
Banks, Dennis and Richard Erdoes. Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American
Indian Movement. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c2004. E99.C6 B258
Basic Call to Consciousness. ed. Akwesasne notes. Rev. ed. Summertown, Tenn. : Native
Voices, c2005. E99.I7 B23
Brand, Johanna. The Life and Death of Anna Mae Aquash. Toronto: J. Lorimer & Co., 1993.
E99.M6 A693
Brown, Gail. "Wounded Knee: A Conflict of Interpretation," in Myth, Memory, and the Making
of the American Landscape. ed. Paul A. Shackel. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
102-118. Electronic Resource
Cheatham, Kae. Dennis Banks: Native American Activist. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers,
c1997. E99.C6 B263
Churchill, Ward and Jim Vander Wall. Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the
Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement. Cambridge, MA: South End Press,
c2002, 1988. HV8144.F43 C46
Commission on the Rights, Liberties, and Responsibilities of the American Indian. The Indian,
America's Unfinished Business; Report. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1966. E93
.C72
Cornell, Stephen E. Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence. New York:
Oxford University Press, c1988. E93 .C79
Cultural Representation in Native America. ed. Jolivette, Andrew. Lanham, MD: Altamira
Press, c2006. E99.E85 C85
Deloria, Vine. “Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation.” American Indian Activism: Alcatraz
to the Longest Walk. ed. Johnson, Troy; Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, c1997. E78.C15 A2
Deloria, Vine. Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties; an Indian Declaration of Independence.
New York, Delacorte Press, c1974. E93 .D35
Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire Building.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1980. E98.P99 D74
Eagle, Adam Fortunate. Alcatraz! Alcatraz!: The Indian Occupation of 1969-1971. Berkeley,
CA: Heyday Books, c1992.
Encyclopedia of American Indian Civil Rights. ed. Olson, James S., Mark Baxter, Joseph M.
Tetzloff, and Darren Pierson. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1997. KF8210. C5 E53
Gedicks, Al. The New Resource Wars: Native and Environmental Struggles Against
Multinational Corporations. Boston: South End Press, c1993. E99.C6 G44
Gonzalez, Mario and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee
and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1999. E99.T34
G65
Hendricks, Steve. The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country.
New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, c2006.
The Indian Bill of Rights, 1968. ed. Wunder, John R. New York: Garland Pub., c1996.
Johnson, Troy and Donald Fixico. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination
and the Rise of Indian Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1996.
Johnson, Troy, Duane Champagne and Joane Nagel. “American Indian Activism and
Transformation: Lessons from Alcatraz.” Contemporary Native American Political Issues. ed.
Troy R. Johnson. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, c1999.
Kipp, Woody. Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, c2004. E99.P58 A3
Long, Carolyn Nestor. Religious Freedom and Indian Rights: The Case of Oregon v. Smith.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, c2000. KF228.O74 L66
Nagel, Joane. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Red Power and the Resurgence of Identity and
Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, c1996. E98.E85 N34
Native American Rights. ed. Roleff, Tamara L. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, c1998.
Peltier, Leonard. Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sundance. New York: St. Martin's Press,
c1999. E99.03 P45
Pevar, Stephen L. Rights of Indians and Tribes: The Authoritative ACLU Guide to Indian and
Tribal Rights. New York: New York University Press, c2004. KF8210.C5 P48
Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the American
Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. E93. P9654
Readings in American Indian law: Recalling the Rhythm of Survival. ed. Carrillo, Jo.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c1998.
Red Power: The American Indians’ Fight for Freedom. ed. Josephy, Alvin M. Jr., Joane Nagel
and Troy Johnson. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972, c1971. E93 .J67
Sayer, John William. Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, c1997. KF224.B27 S39
Skrentny, John D. Minority Rights Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,
c2002. ordered
Smith, Paul Chaat and Robert Allen Warrior. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from
Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. New York: New Press, c1996.
Stern, Kenneth S. Loud Hawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c2002. KF224.B36 S74
Talking Back to Civilization: Indian Voices from the Progressive Era. ed. with an introduction
by Frederick E. Hoxie. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2001. E93 .T215
Team Spirits: The Native American Mascots Controversy. ed. King, C. Richard and Charles
Fruehling Springwood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2001. GV714.5 .K56
They Made Us Many Promises: The American Indian Experience, 1524 to the Present. ed.
Weeks, Philip. Wheeling, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, Inc., c2002. E77.2 .T44
United States Commission on Civil Rights. The Indian Civil Rights Act: A Report of the United
States Commission on Civil Rights. Washington, D.C.?: The Commission, c1991. KF8210.C5
U56
United States Commission on Civil Rights. Indian Tribes: A Continuing Quest for Survival.
Washington, D.C.?: The Commission, c1981. KF8210.C5 U6
United States Commission on Civil Rights. A Quiet Crisis [electronic resource]: Federal
Funding and Unmet Needs in Indian Country. Washington, D.C.: The Commission, c2003. CR
1.2:C 86/7
Washburn, Wilcomb E. Red Man's Land/White Man's Law: A Study of the Past and Present
Status of the American Indian. New York: Scribner, c1971. KF8205 .W38
Weiner, Brian A. Sins of the Parents: The Politics of National Apologies in the United States.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c2005.
Wildenthal, Bryan H. Native American Sovereignty on Trial: A Handbook With Cases, Laws,
and Documents. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2003.
Wilkins, David E. American Indian Politics and the American Political System. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield, c2002. E98.T77 W545
Wilkins, David E. and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty
and Federal Law. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c2001. KF8205 .W533
Williams, Robert A. Jr. Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the
Legal History of Racism in America. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
KF 8210.C5 W55
You are on Indian Land: Alcatraz Island, 1969-1971. ed. Johnson, Troy R. Los Angeles:
Regents of the University of California, c1995.
Articles
Alexander, Paul. “Undermining Indian Sovereignty Rights…Again.” Civil Rights Journal 3, no.
1 (Fall 1998): 6-8, 10-11. CR 1.17:
Amerman, Stephen Kent. “ “Let's Get in and Fight!": American Indian Political Activism in an
Urban Public School System, 1973.” American Indian Quarterly 27, no. 3-4 (Summer/Fall
2003): 607-638. Proquest
Archambeault, William G. “The Web of Steel and the Heart of the Eagle: The Contextual
Interface of American Corrections and Native Americans.” Prison Journal 83 (March 2003): 325. InfoTrac abstract only
Baca, Lawrence R. “Natwe Images in Schools and the Racially Hostile Environment.” Journal
of Sport & Social Issues 28, no. 1 (Feb. 2004): 71-78. Ebsco
Benson, Diana E. “Standing Up Against the Giant.” The American Indian Quarterly 27
(Winter/Spring 2003): 67-79. InfoTrac & Muse
Black, Jason Edward. “The "Mascotting" of Native America: Construction, Commodity, and
Assimilation.” American Indian Quarterly 26, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 605-622. Proquest
Burnett, Donald L., Jr. “An Historical Analysis of the 1968 ‘Indian Civil Rights’ Act.” Harvard
Journal on Legislation 9 (May 1972): 557-626.
Carpio, Myla Vicenti. “The Lost Generation: American Indian Women and Sterilization Abuse.”
Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order. 31, no.4 (Winter 2004): 40-53.
InfoTrac
Castillo, Edward D. “A Reminiscence of the Alcatraz Occupation.” American Indian
Culture & Research Journal 18, no. 4 (Fall 1994): 111-122. InfoTrac abstract only
Christofferson, Carla. “Tribal Courts' Failure to Protect Native American Women: A
Reevaluation of the Indian Civil Rights Act.” Yale Law Journal 101, no.1 (1991): 169-185.
InfoTrac
Coulter, Robert T. “Lack of Redress.” Civil Rights Digest 10, no. 3 (Spring 1978): 30-37.
JC599.U45 A25
Deer, Sarah. “Federal Indian law and violent crime: Native women and children at the mercy of
the State.” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order 31, no.4 (Winter 2004):
17-30. InfoTrac
Dudas, Jeffrey R. “In the Name of Equal Rights: “Special” Rights and the Politics of Resentment
in Post-Civil Rights America.” Law & Society Review 39, no. 4 (Dec. 2005): 723-758. Proquest
French, Laurence Armand. “Wounded Knee II and the Indian Prison Reform Movement.”
Prison Journal 83, no. 1 (March 2003): 26-37. Proquest abstract only
Harjo, Lisa D. “Protecting Native American Religious Freedom.” Update on Law 19, no. 1
(Winter 1995): 9-12. Proquest abstract only
Harjo, Suzan Shown. “Now and Then: Native Peoples in the United States.” Dissent 43, no. 3
(Summer 1996): 58-60. Proquest abstract only
Hoikkala, Paivi. “Feminists or Reformers? American Indian Women and Political Activism in
Phoenix, 1965-1980.” American Indian Culture & Research Journal 22, no. 4 (1998): 163-185.
Proquest abstract only
Jalonick, Mary Clare. “American Indians Worry That Voting Rights Act Will be Rolled Back.”
Associated Press Worldstream (March 28, 2006) available from Lexis Nexis
Kotlowski, Dean J. “Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, and Beyond: The Nixon and Ford
Administrations Respond to Native American Protest.” Pacific Historical Review 72, no. 2
(2003): 201-227.
Lewis, George. “Not So Well Red: Native Americans in the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Reconsidered.” Borderlines: Studies in American Culture 3, no. 4 (1996): 362-375.
Lindsley, Sheryl L., Charles S. Braithwaite, and Kristin L. Ahlberg. “Mending the Sacred Hoop:
Identity Enactment and the Occupation of Wounded Knee.” Great Plains Quarterly 22, no. 2
(2002): 115-126.
McKelvey, Tara. “Domestic Abuse: How the U.S. Government is Violating Native Americans’
Human Rights.” The American Prospect 15, no. 10 (Oct. 2004): A28-A30. Proquest
Monette, Richard A. “E Pluribus Unum: Diverse Ideas From a Native American Perspective.”
Update on Law 19, no. 1 (Winter 1995): 7-8. Proquest abstract only
Nason, James D. “Tribal Models for Controlling Research.” Tribal College 7, no. 2 (Fall, 1996):
17-20. Proquest
Pearson, J. Diane and Fred Wesley. “Recalling the Changing Women: Returning Identity to
Chiricahua Apache Women and Children.” Journal of the Southwest 44, pt. 3 (Autumn 2002):
259-276. InfoTrac
Quesenberry, Stephen V. “Recent United Nations Initiatives Concerning the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples.” American Indian Culture & Research Journal 21, no. 3 (1997): 231-260.
Proquest abstract only
Robinson, Jennifer & Susan Olson. “American Indians and the Voting Rights Act.” Conference
Papers – American Political Science Association, 2003 Annual Meeting, Philadephia, 1-29.
Ebsco abstract only
Rosier, Paul C. “"They Are Ancestral Homelands": Race, Place, and Politics in Cold War Native
America, 1945-1961.” The Journal of American History 92, no. 4 (March 2006): 1300-1326.
E171 .J87
Rundstrom, Robert A. “American Indian Placemaking on Alcatraz, 1969-1971.” American
Indian Culture & Research Journal 18, no. 4 (Fall 1994): 189-212. InfoTrac abstract only
Ryce, Drew Michael. “Enforcement of Indian Civil Rights.” Rutgers Law Review 37, no. 4
(Summer 1985): 1019-1033.
Sellers, Stephanie. “The Experience of a Native American English Professor in Central
Pennsylvania.” American Indian Quarterly 27, no. 1-2 (Winter, 2003): 412-415. Proquest
Stidham, Ronald and Robert A. Carp. “Indian Rights and Law Before the Federal District
Courts.” Social Science Journal 32, no. 1 (1995): 87-100. Ebsco
Strange, Carolyn and Tina Loo. “Holding the Rock: The “Indianization” of Alcatraz Island,
1969-1999.” The Public Historian 23, no. 1 (Winter 2001): 55-74. E171.P8
Torpy, Sally J. “Native American Women and Coerced Sterilization: On the Trail of Tears in the
1970s.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 24, no.2 (2000): 1-22. Proquest
abstract only
Tronnes, Libby R. “"Where is John Wayne?": The Menominee Warriors Society, Indian
Militancy, and Social Unrest During the Alexian Brothers Novitiate Takeover.” American Indian
Quarterly 26, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 526-558. Proquest
Twine, France Winddance. “Feminist Fairy Tales for Black and American Indian Girls: A
Working-Class Vision.” Signs 25, no. 4 (Summer 2000): 1227-1230. HQ1101 .S5 hardcopy or
Proquest
Wenger, Tisa. “"We are Guaranteed Freedom": Pueblo Indians and the Category of Religion in
the 1920’s.” History of Religions 45, no. 2 (Nov. 2005): 89-113. InfoTrac
Wilkins, David E. “Indian Treaty Rights: Sacred Entitlements or “Temporary Privileges?”
American Indian Culture & Research Journal 20, no. 1 (1996): 87-130. Proquest abstract only
Video and Electronic Sources
A brief history of U.S – Tribal relations is found here:
http://www.civilrights.org/issues/indigenous/details.cfm?id=36584
Complete Text of Indian Civil Rights Act:
http://www.tribal-institute.org/lists/icra1968.htm
Incident at Oglala [videorecording] Carolco Home Video; Van Nuys, CA. c. 1991. Video 3975
Indian Activism.Timeline:
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/alcatrazisnotanisland/timeline.html
National Congress of American Indians:
http://www.ncai.org/Home.9.0.html
A Native American Civil Rights and Education Agency:
http://www.changingwinds.org/
Native American Rights Fund:
http://www.narf.org/
Tennessee Native American Indian & Related Organizations:
http://cita.chattanooga.org/TNNAorgs.html
Trail of Broken Treaties 20-Point Position Paper - An Indian Manifesto:
http://www.aimovement.org/archives/index.html
Trudell [videorecording] [Idaho?]: Big Buck, [2006?] DVD 922
Warrior [videorecording]: The Life of Leonard Peltier Westport, CT: Cinnamon Productions,
c1991. Video 4724