Young Adult (grades 9-12)

 A collection of famous speeches by noted Native American leaders given between 1758 and 1910. Many good examples of this aspect of the Indigenous oral tradition.(Indigenous Oral Literature/History) 

An in-depth examination of the case of Leonard Peltier, whom many believe is a political prisoner, and how he was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents in a most controversial trial.Running time is 90 minutes. 

 A novel about the Powder River War (1864 - 1868 ) centered around the battle known either as the Fetterman Massacre (to US historians) or The Hundred In The Hand (to the Lakota) .As the plot of the story is drawn from the pages of history and Lakota oral tradition, this might be considered an Historical narrative. Either way, it is an interesting read that teaches and entertains. 

The story of a young Oklahoman named Cufe Smallhill who experiences a coming of age during a family tragedy. Running time eighty-one minutes.(Contemporary Native America) 

Flight is the story of a native teen who is very familiar with the streets and the system of foster care. Through a series of events he finds himself traveling through space and time experiencing revenge, loss, courage and compassion through the eyes of many different people. This is a story that any young person can relate to and especially urban native youth.(Literature) 

A Lakota-English dictionary for begginners containing 3800 entries, 300 phrases,idiom drills,expression of time, coinage, native birds and animals and rules for forming Lakota sentences.(Lakota Language) 

 An English-Dakota dictionary with over 4000 words featuring pronunciation at-a glance and a pronunciation guide.Also has a short biography of the author and a foreward by the author.(Dakota Language) 

One of the few biographies of Crazy Horse that attempt to show the human side of the man.The author uses a lot of first-hand accounts by Crazy Horse’s Lakota and Cheyenne peers as her primary sources of information, making the book somewhat more accurate than many other such books which were written “at a distance”.This is not just the story of one man , but of a people who are being pushed out of the way by thoughtless colonization called “progress” by its authors.(Lakota History/American History) 

 A collection of stories of Native resistance to colonization and genocide taken from the time period between 1622 and 1971. A good resource book for any course on the history of the colonization of North America.(1492-present)