Prison Writings:
My Life Is My Sun Dance
by Leonard Peltier
Edited by Harvey Arden
Forward by Ramsey Clark
St. Martin’s Press, 1999; ISBN 0-312-20354-3
From leftbooks.com:
In this remarkable memoir, Leonard Peltier invites us into his world inside Leavenworth, where he has been wrongfully imprisoned for over twenty years. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain provides access to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his own suffering and the insights it has borne him.
Still remarkably optimistic, Peltier situates his own experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the continued injustices of the U.S. Corporate Mafia Government.
Prison Writings is one of the most original political manifestos of our time, and it issues a powerful call for justice.
See also:The International Office of the Leonard Peltier Defence Committee
http://www.freepeltier.org/
LEONARD PELTIER/NATIVE RIGHTS
http://www.iacenter.org/peltier.htm
Clinton refuses to pardon Leonard Peltier
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jan2001/pelt-j25.shtml
A Little Matter of Genocide:
Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present
by Ward Churchill
City Lights Books,
San Francisco,1997; ISBN 0-87286-323-9
Ward Churchill speaks with a voice of intelligence and passion in defense of the victims of the greatest holocaust in the history of the world.
“Portions of the book are powerful, clean and surgical, as Churchill cuts straight to the heart of the matter; everyone, especially apologists [of genocide], will not be able to hear the message — it is simply too clear. Some passages will leave a sensitive, open reader in stunned silence, trying to absorb the magnitude of the destruction, cultural obliteration, and the pain and suffering that has taken place since Euroamericans set foot on Hispaniola five centuries ago; more importantly, the destruction continues to this day. A good part of this history is unbearably painful, and Churchill presents it in a moving and masterful style.”
— a reviewer from Toronto
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War At Home:
Covert Action Against U.S. Activists
and What We Can Do About It
by Brian Glick
South End Press, 1989; ISBN 0-89608-349-7
This valuable book provides a history of the FBI’s infamous COINTELPRO operations. These were used to murder, beat, intimidate, harass, confuse, fragment, destroy and silence political dissent by all leftist activists. These ILLEGAL FBI operations took place in the 1960s and ’70s against any Indian, Black, Puerto Rican or White person/group courageous enough to oppose U.S. government-military evil doing. The FBI is inherently a White-racist organization, however, and its operations were generally more violent and ruthless against the American Indian Movement, the Black Panthers and other Indian or Black activists than they were against people of other races.
Today’s FBI persists in the murder and intimidation of Americans of all races, of course, but not under the same codename of “COINTELPRO.”
War at Home also gives practical tips on how to deal with today’s U.S. Corporate Mafia Government thugs. Basically the more unity and publicity the better. Like the criminal bullies they truly are, the FBI and the pigs hate and fear the public exposure of their crimes by a unified opposition. Their basic strategy is to divide and conquer.
The book includes a checklist of essential precautions, information on your legal rights and defenses against the psychological warfare which the American Gestapo (FBI) uses to harass people who have moral consciences and political consciousness.
More about War At Home
In A Barren Land:
American Indian Dispossession and Survival
by Paula Mitchell Marks
published by: Morrow
Tells the appalling story of American Indian cultures under siege from 1607 to the present. Illustrates how, by a series of lies, broken treaties and bloody persecutions, the European-Americans ripped off both the ancient homelands and the ancient ways of life from the original peoples.
The Trail of Tears
by Gloria Jahoda
published by: Wings
The story of the forced removals of American Indians from 1813-1855. More than fifty tribes were forced out of their ancient homelands and marched into the alien lands of the West. Describes the violence, wars, meaningless treaties and political double-dealing that spread from Washington DeCeit to the frontier.
Life of Black Hawk
by Black Hawk
published by: Dover
Black Hawk was the leader of the Sauk and Fox Indians in the early 19th century. In this powerful autobiography he tells of his people’s courageous fight against the relentless and ruthless European invasion of their ancient homelands. He also describes tribal manners, customs, traditions, and tells of his capture and ultimate release.
Geronimo’s Story of His Life
by Geronimo
Edited by S. M. Barrett
Reprint of 1905 edition
published by: National Historical Society
The great leader of the Apache tribe provides not only a look at his private life, but also sets forth a history of tribal life: the mighty battles with the Mexicans, the invasion of the Americans, and his hopes for the future of his people.
Wild Justice:
The People of Geronimo vs. the United States
by M. Lieder and J. Page
published by: Random House
Remarkable history of the violent, costly and tragic events comprising the resistance of the Chiricahua Apaches against European invasion, and their subsequent punishment at the hands of the United States.
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
by Charles Eastman
published by: Dover
Raised as a young Lakota in the 1860s and 1870s, Eastman knew some of the Indian leaders he portrays here in vivid, biographical sketches. Included are Red Cloud, Rain-in-the-Face, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Little Crow, Chief Joseph and 9 more. Includes 12 portraits.
Extraordinary American Indians
by S. Avery and L. Skinner
published by: Children’s Press
Biographies of influential Native Americans, from the famous Tecumseh, Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph, Jim Thorpe and Buffy Sainte-Marie, to the lesser known, like the Navajo Codetalkers of WWII.
The Little Bighorn Remembered:
The Untold Indian Story of Custer’s Last Stand
by Herman J. Viola
published by: Times
Collects together dozens of dramatic, never-before-heard accounts by Indians who participated in the battle. These stories which have been handed down to the present day, often secretly, present remarkable eyewitness recollections of the battle from a Native American point of view.
Comanches: The Destruction of a People
by T. R. Fehrenbach
published by: Da Capo
Among the most powerful of the Native American tribes, the Comanches controlled the southern Great Plains for more than a hundred years. They destroyed the Spanish hopes for an even larger genocidal empire, blocked French advances in the Southwest, and for 60 years, proved to be the greatest obstacle to the Anglo-American invasion.
King Philip’s War:
The History and Legacy of America’s Forgotten Conflict
by E.B. Schultz and M.J. Tougias
published by: Countryman
Details the brutal history of the war that marked the turning point in the Anglo-Americans’ battle to dominate the “New World”, marked by ambushes, raids and full-scale battles. The Wampanoag Indians tried to protect their homeland and way of life against the Anglo-American invaders, only to be slain or sold into slavery and forced into exile.
The Name of War:
King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity
by Jill Lepore
published by: Knopf
The story of one of the most bitter conflicts in American history and its reverberations over the centuries. The book chronicles the horrible race war that erupted in 1675 between the New England colonist-invaders and the Indians.
As invaders of other people’s lands, the Europeans were clearly the primary aggressors. But the author claims that since both sides perpetrated massacres and outrages, this hardened the enmity between Indians and Anglos and set the course for the future.
Stories of Indian retaliations, whether real or invented, could then be used by European-Americans as convenient excuses for over 300 years of ruthless, inhuman genocide.
Many of the above books are available from:
Edward R. Hamilton, Bookseller
http://www.edwardrhamilton.com/
Falls Village, CT 06031-5000
Dover Publications
http://www.doverpublications.com/
31 East 2nd Street
Mineola, NY 11501
American Holocaust:
Columbus and the Conquest of the New World
by David E. Stannard
Oxford University Press, New York, 1992; ISBN 0-19-507581-1
The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account
by Bartolome de las Casas
(translated by Herma Briffault)
Johns Hopkins University Press; Baltimore, Maryland; 1992; ISBN 0-8018-4430-4
The Four Voyages of Christopher Columbus
edited by J. M. Cohen
Penguin Books, London,1969; ISBN 0-14-044217-0
The Journals of Christopher Columbus
(available at any larger library)
The Rediscovery of North America
by Barry Lopez
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington,1990; ISBN 0-8131-1742-9
The Conquest of America:
How The Indian Nations Lost Their Continent
by Hans Koning
Monthly Review Press, New York, 1993, ISBN 0-85345-876-6
Guatemalan Army Waged Genocide, New Report Finds
by Mireya Navarro
New York Times, February 26, 1999
Article in the NY Times described “torture, kidnapping and execution of thousands of civilians” — most of them Mayan Indians — a campaign to which the U.S. government contributed “money and training.”
A People’s History of the United States:
1492 — Present
by Howard Zinn
Colombia:
The Genocidal Democracy
by Javier Giraldo
I Was Never Alone:
A Prison Diary from El Salvador
by Nidia Diaz
Killing Hope:
U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since WWII
by William Blum
Lies My Teacher Told Me:
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James Loewen
Rogue State:
A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower
by William Blum
Genocide of the American Indian Peoples
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Enslavement and Oppression of the African-American Peoples
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White Slavery in America