Recommended Native American Literature & Links
For Use by Teachers

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General information

• Griffin-Pierce, Trudy. 1995. The Encyclopedia of Native America. New York: Penguin Group.

Group specific sites and booklists

• Multilingual Web Cuaderno about the Yoeme
  http://hemi.nyu.edu/cuaderno/yoeme/content.html
  About the Web Cuaderno Project
  http://hemi.nyu.edu/cuaderno/
• Native American Facts for Kids
  (East Coast and Plains Tribes)
  http://www.native-languages.org/kids.htm

Helpful sites with large listings of accepted literature

• Books for Children about weaving
  http://tapestrycenter.org/?page_id=2676
• Native American Themes in Children and Young Adult Books
  http://www.cynthialeitichsmith.com/lit_resources/diversity/native_am/NativeThemes_intro.html
• Oyate Native American Books Catalog
  http://www.oyate.org/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=97
• Native Languages of the Americas: American Indian Books
  http://www.native-languages.org/books.htm#kids
• American Indian Library Association Selective Bibliography and Guide to Selecting Books
  http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/ailabib.htm
• Best of the Web - Native American
  http://botw.org/top/Arts/Literature/Cultural/Native_American/

Books to avoid (with explanations)

• Oyate—Books to Avoid
  http://oyate.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=134&Itemid=107
• American Indian Library Association Selective Bibliography and Guide to Selecting Books (see Section 2)
  http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/ailabib.htm

For the instructor

• Sheridan, Bruce E. and Nancy Parezo (Editors). 1996 Paths of Life: American Indians of the Southwest and Northern Mexico. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/bid966.htm
• Appropriate Methods When Teaching About Native American Peoples
  http://www.artrainusa.org/downloads/03ep_nasensitivity.pdf
• Native American Children's Literature In The Classroom: An Annotated Bibliography
  http://library.humboldt.edu/~berman/naclit.htm

Compiled by Robert Holcombe, UA Anthropology student, May 2007. Updated May 2008.