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Bureau of Indian Affairs

2012
Chronicles the history of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, detailing its development and the efforts of its leaders to oversee U.S.-Native American relations. Details the major policies that have shaped both the BIA and Native American tribes all over the country.

Wilma Mankiller

principal chief of the Cherokees
1994
Text and accompanying photographs describe the life and career of the first woman to head the Cherokee nation.

Like a hurricane

the Indian movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
1996

Where white men fear to tread

the autobiography of Russell Means
1996
The controversial leader and activist tells the story of his life in which, so far, he has done everything possible to dramatize the Indian desire for self-determination. He has stormed Mount Rushmore, seized Plymouth Rock, run for president in 1988 and led a seventy-one-day takeover of Wounded Knee in 1973.

In the spirit of Crazy Horse

1983
An investigative account of the fatal shout-out between FBI agents and American Indians in 1975.

Everything you know about Indians is wrong

2009
Presents a memoir that covers the author's experience with political radicalism in the 1970s while working with the American Indian Movement and later work at the National Museum of the American Indian, with commentary on the role of American Indians in the U.S.

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