Nonfiction books:
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Plus: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States for Young People
Adapted by (C-U local!) Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Native Chicago edited by Terry Straus
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King
Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation by George E. Tinker
Modern activism:
The Land Back movement
Lakota People’s Law Project
The Sovereign Bodies Institute
Midwest SOARRING Foundation
The Red Nation Podcast
Decolonized Buffalo Podcast
Notable people:
Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiesen
Ojibwa Warrior by Dennis Banks
The Thunder Before the Storm by Clyde H. Bellecourt
Russell Means testifying before the U.S. Senate, 1989
Trudell (2005) documentary
Rumble: the Indians who Rocked the World (2019) documentary
Music:
Contact from the Underworld of Redboy (1998) rock album by Robbie Robertson
A.K.A. Graffiti Man (1986) spoken word rock album by John Trudell
Inuusiq/Life (2016) folk rock album by The Jerry Cans
Medicine Songs (2017) rock album by Buffy Sainte-Marie
The Bridge EP (2017) rap album by Frank Waln
Woman in Color (2020) folk album by Raye Zaragoza
One More Saturday Night (2021) hip-hop album by The Halluci Nation
Tongues (2022) experimental Inuit throat singing album by Tanya Tagaq
Fiction:
Reservation Dogs TV show on Hulu by Sterlin Harjo
The Only Good Indians novel by Stephen Graham Jones
The Beadworkers novel by Beth Piatote
Making Love with the Land novel by Joshua Whitehead
An American Sunrise poetry by Joy Harjo
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, Tracks, The Plague of Doves all by Louise Erdrich
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (a children’s novel)