Required Reading - literary support to help us remember the indigenous human legacy we've simply forgotten...
"Weaving Memory: A Guide to Honoring the Ancestors", Laura Patsouris, Asphodel Press, 2010
"God Is Red", Vine Deloria, Jr., Fulcrum Publishing, 1994
"Red Earth, White Lies", Vine Deloria, Jr.
"Custer Died For Your Sins", Vine Deloria, Jr.
"Spirit and Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader"
"Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming", Winona LaDuke, South End Press, 2005
"Dreaming the Council Ways: True Native Teachings from the Red Lodge", Ohky Simine Forest, 2000 (the more I look at this book, the more it becomes clear it is indispensible to our understandings of ourselves as humans born of indigenous Ancestors - requiring us to become indigenous again. US)
"Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery adn the Rise of European Capitalism", John Henrik Clarke, A & B Publishers Group, 1994
"Fulcrums of Change: Origins of Racism in the Americas and Other Essays", Jan Carew, Africa World Press, 1988
"Rape of Paradise: Columbus and the Birth of Racism in the Americas", Jan Carew, A & B Books, 1994
"Pre-Columbian Contacts: Dragon Cultures of Africa and the Americas", Dr. Aziza Braithwaite Bey, Booksurge/Createspace Publishing, 2010
"Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future", edited by Melissa K. Nelson, Bear and Company, 2008
"500 Years of Indigenous Resistance", Gord Hill, PM Press, 2009
"The Healing Wisdom of Africa", Malidoma Some'
"Of Water and the Spirit", Malidoma Some"
"Ritual: Power, Healing and Community", Malidoma Some'
"Native Wisdom for White Minds", Anne Wilson Schaef, One World/Random House, 1995
"Introduction to African Civilizations", John G. Jackson, Citadel Press, 1994
"They Came Before Columbus", Ivan Van Sertima
"Captialism and Slavery", Eric WIlliams
"In the Absence of the Sacred", Jerry Mander, Sierra Club Books
"Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge", Daniel R. Wildcat, Fulcrum Publishing, 2009
"Secrets of the Talking Jaguar", Martin Prechtel
"The Toebone and the Tooth", Martin Prechtel
"Ishmael", Daniel Quinn
"Things Fall Apart", Chinua Achebe
"How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", Walter Rodney
"The Way of the Elders: West African Spirituality and Tradition", Adama & Naomi Doumbia Ph.D., Llewellyn Publications, 2004
"This Sacred Earth" by Roger Gottlieb
"Eating Fire, Tasting Blood" by MaryJo Moore
[Ward Churchill book(s) removed from list 6/12)]
"God Is Red", Vine Deloria, Jr., Fulcrum Publishing, 1994
"Red Earth, White Lies", Vine Deloria, Jr.
"Custer Died For Your Sins", Vine Deloria, Jr.
"Spirit and Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader"
"Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming", Winona LaDuke, South End Press, 2005
"Dreaming the Council Ways: True Native Teachings from the Red Lodge", Ohky Simine Forest, 2000 (the more I look at this book, the more it becomes clear it is indispensible to our understandings of ourselves as humans born of indigenous Ancestors - requiring us to become indigenous again. US)
"Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery adn the Rise of European Capitalism", John Henrik Clarke, A & B Publishers Group, 1994
"Fulcrums of Change: Origins of Racism in the Americas and Other Essays", Jan Carew, Africa World Press, 1988
"Rape of Paradise: Columbus and the Birth of Racism in the Americas", Jan Carew, A & B Books, 1994
"Pre-Columbian Contacts: Dragon Cultures of Africa and the Americas", Dr. Aziza Braithwaite Bey, Booksurge/Createspace Publishing, 2010
"Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future", edited by Melissa K. Nelson, Bear and Company, 2008
"500 Years of Indigenous Resistance", Gord Hill, PM Press, 2009
"The Healing Wisdom of Africa", Malidoma Some'
"Of Water and the Spirit", Malidoma Some"
"Ritual: Power, Healing and Community", Malidoma Some'
"Native Wisdom for White Minds", Anne Wilson Schaef, One World/Random House, 1995
"Introduction to African Civilizations", John G. Jackson, Citadel Press, 1994
"They Came Before Columbus", Ivan Van Sertima
"Captialism and Slavery", Eric WIlliams
"In the Absence of the Sacred", Jerry Mander, Sierra Club Books
"Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge", Daniel R. Wildcat, Fulcrum Publishing, 2009
"Secrets of the Talking Jaguar", Martin Prechtel
"The Toebone and the Tooth", Martin Prechtel
"Ishmael", Daniel Quinn
"Things Fall Apart", Chinua Achebe
"How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", Walter Rodney
"The Way of the Elders: West African Spirituality and Tradition", Adama & Naomi Doumbia Ph.D., Llewellyn Publications, 2004
"This Sacred Earth" by Roger Gottlieb
"Eating Fire, Tasting Blood" by MaryJo Moore
[Ward Churchill book(s) removed from list 6/12)]