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<h1>Suggested Readings</h1>
<p>The following bibliographies offer several suggested readings by or about Native peoples and their concepts of health and illness. They are organized mostly by age groups, albeit many young adults may find readings listed under General Public and Research accessible and insightful.</p>
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<h2>Young Readers &amp; Young Adults</h2>
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Alexie, Sherman (Spokane/Coeur dAlene). <span class="title">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian</span>. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2007. Reprinted 2009.
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<p>This novel recounts the trials of a Native American teenager who decides to transfer to an off-reservation high school in an attempt to gain a better education. His Native peers on the reservation look upon him as a “traitor,” while his peers at his new high school regard him as an outsider. <span class="grade-level">(Grade levels: 7-10)</span></p>
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Erdrich, Louise (Anishinabe). <span class="title">Love Medicine</span>. 1984. Revised Edition, New York: The McGraw Hill Companies, 2000.
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<p>All of Erdrichs novels focus on issues of medicine, health, and disease. <i>Love Medicine</i>, in particular, explores the loss of Native American spirituality and cultural identity in a set of inter-related chapters narrated by different characters. <span class="grade-level">(Grade levels: 10+)</span></p>
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Hogan, Linda (Chickasaw). <span class="title">Power</span>. New York: W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 1998.
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<p>All of Hogans novels revolve around issues of the sacred and healing. In <i>Power</i>, a sixteen-year-old Native American girl witnesses the killing of her clans sacred animal, the Florida panther, by her spiritual mentor.<span class="grade-level">(Grade levels: 10+)</span></p>
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Gravelle, Karen. <span class="title">Soaring Spirits: Conversations with Native American Teens</span>. New York: F. Watts, 1995.
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<p>This non-fiction publication includes photos and interviews with 17 teens who discuss growing up Native American today. <span class="grade-level">(Grade levels: 7-12)</span></p>
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Wall, Steve, and Harvey Arden. <span class="title">Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders</span>. Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, Inc., 1990. Reprinted 2006.
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<p>This non-fiction work chronicles Wall and Ardens photographing and interviewing tribal elders from 20 Native nations over the course of ten years.<span class="grade-level">(Grade levels: 6-12)</span></p>
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<p>In addition, the following websites provide bibliographies of books about or by Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Hawaiian Natives for all levels of K-12 grades:</p>
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<li>
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American Indian Library Association—American Indian Youth Services Literature Award
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<p><a rel="external" href="https://ailanet.org/activities/american-indian-youth-literature-award/">https://ailanet.org/activities/american-indian-youth-literature-award/</a> <br> This website lists childrens books that have received the American Indian Youth Services Literature Award, which is meant to honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians.</p>
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Caldwell, Naomi, Gabriella Kaye and Lisa A. Mitten. <span class="title">I is for Inclusion: The Portrayal of Native Americans in Books for Young People.” American Indian Childrens Literature: Identifying and Celebrating the Good</span>. Washington, D.C.: American Indian Library Association, 2007
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<p><a rel="external" href="https://epub.sub.uni-hamburg.de//epub/volltexte/2010/4664/pdf/I_IS_FOR_INCLUSION_rev_10_07.pdf">http://www.ailanet.org/publications/I%20IS%20FOR%20INCLUSION-rev%2010-07.pdf</a> <br> This PDF file provides an annotated bibliography of several Native American literature titles. Works included fall under the categories of books by Native authors for young people, books on contemporary Native Americans by Native as well as non-Native authors, and portrayals of Pocahontas/Jamestown.</p>
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Anthropology Outreach Office, Smithsonian Institution— “A Critical Bibliography on North American Indians for K-12”
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<p><a rel="external" href="http://anthropology.si.edu/outreach/Indbibl/bibgen.html">http://anthropology.si.edu/outreach/Indbibl/bibgen.html</a> <br> This website is a wonderful resource that provides an annotated bibliography of literature pertaining to North American Indians. Titles included fall under the categories of traditional stories, biographies, fiction, and non-fiction, while each section is divided by hemispheric region (e.g., Great Basin, Plateau, Northeast, Arctic, etc.)</p>
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<h2>General Public</h2>
<h3 class="standalone">Fiction</h3>
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Allen, Paula Gunn (Laguna Pueblo and Lakota). <span class="title">Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Womans Sourcebook</span>. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.
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Bell, Betty Louise (Cherokee). <span class="title">Faces in the Moon</span>. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
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Chief Eagle, Dallas (Lakota). <span class="title">Winter Count</span>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Originally published in 1967.
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Highway, Tomson (Cree). <span class="title">Kiss of the Fur Queen</span>. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. First published in Canada by Doubleday in 1998.
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Momaday, N. Scott (Kiowa/Cherokee). <span class="title">House Made of Dawn</span>. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999. First published by Harper &amp; Row, Publishers, Inc., 1966.
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Power, Susan (Lakota). <span class="title">The Grass Dancer</span>. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 1995.
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Roscoe, Will. <span class="title">Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America</span>. New York: St. Martins Press, 1998.
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___. <span class="title">The Zuni Man-Woman</span>. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
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Sarris, Greg (Pomo). <span class="title">Grand Avenue</span>. New York: Hyperion, 1994.
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Silko, Leslie Marmon (Laguna Pueblo). <span class="title">Ceremony</span>. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
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Vizenor, Gerald (Anishinabe). <span class="title">Heirs of Columbus</span>. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1991.
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Young Bear, Ray A. (Mesquakie). <span class="title">Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives</span>. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.
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Benson, Heather. <span class="title"><a href="//www.sdpb.org/blogs/arts-and-culture/keepers-of-the-canton-indian-asylum-share-history/">Keepers of the Canton Indian Asylum Share History</a></span>. South Dakota Public Broadcasting. June 7, 2018 [last updated Nov 7, 2019]
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Black Elk, Nicholas (Oglala Sioux) and John G. Neihardt. <span class="title">Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux</span>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.
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Buhner, Stephen Harrod. <span class="title">Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom of Native American Herbalism</span>. Rochester: Bear &amp; Co., 2006.
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Cuero, Delfina (Kumeyaay) and Florence Connolly Shipek. <span class="title">Delfina Cuero: Her Autobiography, An Account of Her Last Years, and Her Ethnobotanic Contributions</span>. Menlo Park: Ballena Press, 1991.
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Deloria Jr., Vine (Standing Rock Sioux). <span class="title">The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men</span>. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006.
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</div>
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Hensley, William L. I??ia?ruk (Iñupiaq). <span class="title">Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People</span>. New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2009.
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Hungry Wolf, Beverly (Blackfoot). <span class="title">The Ways of My Grandmothers</span>. New York: Morrow, 1980.
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Lame Deer, John (Lakota) and Richard Erdoes. <span class="title">Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions</span>. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
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McMaster, Gerald (Plains Cree and Blackfoot) and Clifford E. Trafzer (Wyandot). <span class="title">Native Universe: Voices of Indian America</span>. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, in association with National Geographic, 2004.
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Mehl-Madrona, Lewis (Cherokee/Lakota). <span class="title">Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing</span>. New York: Fireside, 1997.
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___. <span class="title">Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process</span>. Rochester: Bear &amp; Co., 2007.
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Niethammer, Carolyn. <span class="title">Ill Go and Do More: Anne Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist</span>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
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</div>
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Silko, Leslie Marmon (Laguna). <span class="title">Storyteller</span>. New York: Seaver Books, 1981.
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Snell, Alma Hogan (Crow). <span class="title">Grandmothers Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life</span>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
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___. <span class="title">A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines</span>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
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St. Pierre, Mark and Tilda Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota). <span class="title">Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers—Medicine Women of the Plains Indians</span>. New York: Touchstone, 1995.
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Standing Bear, Luther (Lakota). <span class="title">My People the Sioux</span>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Originally published in 1928.
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___. <span class="title">My Indian Boyhood</span>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. Originally published in 1931.
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Warren, William W. (Anishinabe). <span class="title">History of the Ojibway People</span>. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1984. Originally published in 1885.
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<p>In addition, the following websites provide bibliographies of works by numerous Native American authors:</p>
<ul>
<li><h4>ipl2: Native American Authors</h4><p><a rel="external" href="http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/">http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/</a> <br>This website provides relevant information on several Native American authors, including biographical information, bibliographies of their published works, and links to resources.</p></li>
<li><h4>Native American Literature—Selected Bibliography</h4><p><a rel="external" href="http://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/native_american_literature.htm">http://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/native_american_literature.htm</a> <br>This webpage, compiled by Dr. Kathryn L. McKay of Weber State University, provides a brief history of Native American literature followed by a list of Native writers (prose and poetry) and their works.</p></li>
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Allen, Paula Gunn (Laguna Pueblo/Lakota). <span class="title">Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat</span>. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003.
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___. <span class="title">The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions</span>. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.
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Apess, William (Pequot) and Barry OConnell, ed. <span class="title">On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess</span>. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
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Charon, Rita. <span class="title">Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness</span>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Cruikshank, Julie, ed. <span class="title">Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders</span>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
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Klein, Laura F. and Lillian A. Ackerman. <span class="title">Women and Power in Native North America</span>. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
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LaDuke, Winona (Ojibwe). <span class="title">Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming</span>. Cambridge: South End Press, 2005.
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Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket, Colville Federated Tribe). <span class="title">Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography</span>. Edited by Jay Miller. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
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Sarris, Greg (Pomo). <span class="title">Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts</span>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
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Saxman, Michelle C. <span class="title"><a href="//web.archive.org/web/20111015031033/http:/crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/22-9/22-09-16.pdf">The Canton Asylum for Insane Indians</a></span>. Cultural Resources Management. 1999;22(9): 40-2.
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Soule B, Soule J. <span class="title"><a href="//pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12647372/">Death at the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians</a></span>. S D J Med. 2003 Jan;56(1):15-8. PMID: 12647372.
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Spaulding JM. <span class="title"><a href="//pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3530958/">The Canton Asylum for Insane Indians: an example of institutional neglect</a></span>. Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1986 Oct;37(10):1007-11. doi: 10.1176/ps.37.10.1007. PMID: 3530958.
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Webster, Kelly, ed. <span class="title">Library Services to Indigenous Populations: Viewpoints and Resources</span>. Chicago: Office for Literacy and Outreach Services, American Library Association, 2005.
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Weaver, Jace (Cherokee). <span class="title">That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community</span>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Winter, Joseph C. <span class="title">Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer</span>. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
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