Native Americans
Information on indigenous peoples
See also Category: Native Americans
Overviews and Research Resources
Profiles and information about California's indigenous Native American Tribes.
Lists Native American tribes in California and provides descriptions of their location and diet.
Native American news quarterly also AlterNative
A brief history of Native Americans in California
Ethnic NewsWatch: Full-text newspaper and journal articles focusing on news, culture and history from the ethnic, minority and native press. (university login).
News
Action on climate change: Congressional testimony, PBS NewsHour video part 1 part 2 on Northwest coast salmon. 7.12
Lakotas block the XL Pipeline 3/12 Canadians too. Lakota Hunger Strike4/12
Louisiana tribe loses land to sea level rise 6/12
Caroline Cannon has won the prestigious Goldman Award for bringing the voice and perspective of her Inupiat community in Point Hope to the battle to keep Arctic waters safe from offshore oil and gas drilling, and successfully halted numerous oil and gas leases in the region.(audio) transcript.
Arboretum celebrates partnership with Amah Mutsun tribe on native plants.
Native tribe challenges Keystone XL pipeline 12/11
Eagle controversy 3/12.
Video
Sacred Poison shows the devastating toll past uranium mining has had on the Navajo people and discusses the potential risks posed by a renewal of uranium mining. It lays out the complex and conflicting economic, political, environmental and spiritual issues involved. However, this documentary in no way portrays the Navajo as victims of outside forces, but rather agents of change within their community and beyond. Yvonne Latty 2011. excerpt) Related article
The Moapa Band of Paiutes continues to fight the pollution from the nearby Reid Gardner coal plant in Southern Nevada, and the Sierra Club stands with them. Today, we are releasing this powerful new video that features members of the tribe telling moving personal stories about the devastating effects of pollution from Reid Gardner. 6/12
We Shall Remain, a provocative PBS multi-media project that establishes Native history as an essential part of American history.
Literature
History
Readings
Cronon, William Changes in the Land documents how Native Americans related to nature, and what happened when the market was introduced. Ch. 8 is the summary/conclusion.
Charles Mann, author of 1491(book exploration on how Native Americans used the land) has also written about interactions between colonists and Native peoples. Charles C. Mann (1491) discusses the voyage of Christopher Columbus and the birth of globalization in terms of world trade and ecological collision.
Another account of megafauna extinctions.
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown video excerpt
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen is more recent history
