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  1. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  2. Big Bear
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisonedt. (1825-1888).
  3. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
    An Indian History of the American West

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    A well documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian.
  4. Christopher Who? -- Discovering the Americas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    Columbus seen as a conqueror.
  5. Dakota War of 1862
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux or Dakota.
  6. Deganawida (The Great Peacemaker)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The founder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
  7. Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
    Vol. 8: 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
  8. Great Law of Peace
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The oral constitution that created the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy.
  9. A History of Canadian Wealth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  10. In 1492, What Did Columbus Really Do?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    A summary of various resistance movements then being organized to protest celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first landing in the Carribbean.
  11. Indian Giver
    A Legacy of North American Native Peoples

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  12. A Long and Terrible Shadow
    White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
  13. Manifest Destiny? A Native Perspective on 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    1992 will be a year of mourning for North American Indians; a mourning for the fragmentation and loss of our traditional way of life.
  14. George Manuel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    Obituary in the Connexions Digest
  15. Metacomet (Metacomb)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A war chief of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War. (Died 1676).
  16. Native Rights in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A report on the legal rights of the natives of Canada.
  17. 1992 The Theology of Self-Discovery Offers Hope
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    The Self-Discovery campaign does not confine itself to the struggles of Indigenous People but addresses the concerns of all social and racial groups who have experienced social/cultural destruction under the yoke of colonialism.
  18. 1992: A White Christian Perspective
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    I would hope that we can enter into a very sober 1992 event, so that native Christians might be able to retrieve those symbols that will give them new strength. I would hope that God is acting now as a kind of psychoanalyst, fresh dialogue might continue between the Church and native groups not within its "fold".
  19. Opchanacanough
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A tribal chief of the Powhatan Confederacy. (Died 1646).
  20. Osceola
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    War chief of the Seminole in Florida who led a small band of warriors in the Seminole resistance when the United States tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands. (1804-1838).
  21. Pontiac
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An Ottawa chief who led Pontiac's Rebellion. (1763#1766).
  22. Pontiac's Rebellion
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A war launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War.
  23. Pueblo Revolt
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An uprising of many pueblos of the Pueblo people against Spanish colonization of the Americas in the New Spain province of New Mexico in 1680.
  24. Reservations Are For Indians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Describes the vicious circle of dependence created by government policies which ensnare aboriginal Canadians, combining an account of life in four reserve communities with a history of government policies and programmes.
  25. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  26. This Land Is Not For Sale
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Examination of Native land claims and development in Canada's north.
  27. Túpac Amaru II
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish occupation of Peru. (1742-1781).
  28. An Unauthorized Biography of the World
    Oral History on the Front Lines

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
  29. Underhanded History of the USA
    Radical America - Volumer 7 No.3

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  30. The Unjust Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Attacks Canada's governments for their treatment of Native People and calls for just solutions.
  31. Who owns knowledge?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
  32. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.



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