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Rosenthal, H. D. Their Day in Court: A History of the Indian Claims Commission. New York: Garland Pub., 1990.

In the Law library.

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

The standard account of the "termination" policy.

Iverson, Peter. When Indians Became Cowboys: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

Lively account of the growth of Indian cattle ranching.

Cohen, Fay G. Treaties On Trial: The Continuing Controversy over Northwest Indian Fishing Rights. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.

A study of Northwest Indian fishing rights in the period since the Boldt decision.

Johnson, Troy R. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-determination and the Rise of Indian Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

An analysis of the historical significance of the famous occupation of Alcatraz Island , which lasted from 1969 to 1971, by a group called Indians of All Tribes.

Harmon, Alexandra. Indians in the Making. Berkeley: Unversity of California Press, 1998.

A history of Indians in the Puget Sound region.

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

A study of the many ways that "playing Indian" has been a "persistent" part of American social, cultural, and political traditions.

Momaday, N. Scott. The Names: A Memoir. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

An autobiography by the Pulitzer prize winning poet, author, and member of the Kiowa tribe.

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

A fictional account of contemporary life on and off an Indian reservation.

Johnson, Troy, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne, ed. American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

A collection of essays and personal accounts covering the Red Power movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Viola, Herman J. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, An American Warrior. New York: Orion Books, 1993.

A biography of the Colorado Senator.

Hale, Janet Campbell. Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter. New York: Random House, 1993.

A biography of a twentieth century Skitswish woman.

Welch, James. The Indian Lawyer. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.

A fictional account of a late twentieth century Blackfeet Indian, who struggles to forge an identity that can account for his reservation upbringing and his success in the larger society.

Strickland, Rennard. Tonto's Revenge: Reflections on American Indian Culture and Policy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Forty-Seven Cents. Made by Lee Callister and Wendy Carrel. 25 min. 1973. 16 mm. Documents how officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Claims Commission, and a lawyer representing the Pit River Indian Nation of Northern California obtained from the tribe a land settlement that many, or perhaps most, of its members did not want. Interviews dissatisfied Indians as well as government officials. Available in Knight Library.

Tribal Perspectives on the Hanford Nuclear Site. 29m. 1996. Videorecording.

The Wanapum band was forced to relocate when the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was formed in 1943. Hunting and fishing rights of the Umatilla, Yakama, Nez Perce, Warm Springs and Colville tribes were affected as well. This film looks at the tribes' desire to regain access to the land and concerns about radioactive contamination and the health problems it has caused for native people. Available in Knight Library.

You Conquered Me Not: A Short History of the Klamath & Modoc Tribes. Written, filmed & edited by Sharon O'Brien and Bruce Bittle. 1997. 16mm.

Available in Knight Library.

Incident at Oglala. Directed by Michael Apted. 90m. 1991. Videorecording.

Documents the 1975 killing of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the arrest and incarceration of Leonard Peltier, and subsequent efforts to free him.Available in Knight Library.

The Right To Be. Produced & directed by Harriett Skye and Stefano Saraceni. 27m. 1994. Videorecording.

Lakota journalist Harriett Skye returns to her tribe on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota to investigate for herself the realities of contemporary Indian life. She visits the United Tribes Community College, a tribal council meeting, participates in a sweat ceremony in her honor, and comments on the perpetuation of the "Custer mentality" by the government. Underscores the strength of the Indian belief system to survival. Available in Knight Library.

Oglala Lakota College

The homepage of the tribal college on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.http://www.olc.edu/

National Indian Child Welfare Association

The homepage of a private, non-profit, American  Indian-run, child welfare agency that serves tribes nationwide by strenthening and enhancing thier capacity to deliver quality child welfare services. http://www.nicwa.org/

Ben Nighthorse

The homepage of the Colorado senator.
http://www.powersource.com/campbell/default.html

Put Yourself There: 
      Debates, Documents, and First Person Accounts

Indian Claims Commission.

A keyword search in Janus will reveal over one hundred documents of proceeding, and reports relating to the ICC.

"Termination of Federal Supervision over Certain Tribes of Indians," Joint Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs, Congress of the United States, 83rd Congress, 2d session . . . Providing for Legislation Pursuant to H. Con. Res. 108, 83d Congress, 1st Session (1954).

In Government Documents.

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Relocation Handbook: A Guide for all Employees of the Branch of Relocation Services. Washington D.C.: GPO, 1956.

Available through Interlibrary Loan.

U.S. Congress. Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.

In Government Documents.

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

A controversial bestseller in 1969, it helped bring Indian voices to a national level.

Hilden, Patricia Penn. When Nickels were Indians: An Urban, Mixed-Blood Story. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.

An autobiography by the prominent scholar.