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By Carolyn Boyes-Watson
Living Justice Press, St. Paul (2008)
Review by Michael Thompson
If you’re Native,
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Peacemaking Circles & Urban Youth
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Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips: The Fate of Public Education in America
By Gene V. Glass
Information Age Publishing (2008)Review by Michael Thompson
Reading this book shattered my paradigm for understanding public education.
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The Real All-Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation
By Sally Jenkins
Doubleday (2007)Review by Michael Thompson
Award-winning journalist Sally Jenkins tells the saga of the Carlisle Indian School and its amazing football teams that challenged the powerful Ivy League teams in the early days of the 20th century,
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I Swallow Turquoise for Courage
By Hershman R. John
The University of Arizona Press (2007)Review by Michael Thompson
This wonderful new collection might easily have been called,
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When Your Hands Are Tied
56 minutes
Directed and produced by Mia Bocella Hartle
Co-producer: Marley Shebala
Bocella Productions, LLC (2006)Review by Michael Thompson
It is a rare film indeed that tells any story of Indian people with true honesty.
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Honoring the Word: Classroom instructors find that students respond best to oral tradition
Instructors share the resources they use to give oral tradition voice in their tribal college and university classrooms.
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The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
Edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, Esther Yazzie-Lewis
University of New Mexico Press (2006)
Albuquerque,
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Aboriginal Architecture
Bullfrog Films
93 minutes
Directed by Paul M. Rickard
Producers: Tamara Lynch, Paul M. Rickard,
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Where the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places
by Peter Nabokov
Viking (2006)
New York, NY
350 pages ISBN 0-670-03432-0
$24.95Review by Michael Thompson
This is outstanding scholarship on Native American sacred sites.
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Cowboys, Indians & Lawyers
Bullfrog Films (2005), PO Box 149, Oley, PA 19547
www.bullfrogfilms.com
ISBN: 1-59458-379-X
57 minute DVD
(Grades 9-12, College,
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The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction
by Robert Warrior
University of Minnesota Press (2005)
Minneapolis, MN
280 pages
ISBN 0-8166-4616-3 (hardcover) $59.95
ISBN 0-8166-4617-1 (paperback) $19.95Review by Michael Thompson
The latest work by Osage writer Robert Warrior,
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Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways
Wanda D. McCaslin, Editor
Living Justice Press (2005) – 459 pages
ISBN 0-9721886-1-4, Paperback, $25.00Review by Michael Thompson
This unique collection is subtitled “Writings on Community Peacemaking and Restorative Justice from the Native Law Centre,” located at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Sovereignty, Colonialism and the Indigenous Nations: A Reader
Robert Odawi Porter, Editor
Carolina Academic Press (2005) – 816 pages
ISBN 0-89089-333-0 – Paperback, $75.00Review by Michael Thompson
This book is an incredible resource for anyone willing to explore the complex and often frustrating issues surrounding Native sovereignty.
