 | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Buy used from: $0.01 Beautiful, lyrical and sad--I read it in one night. The basis for "Smoke Signals"
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 | Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
Buy used from: $0.01 Continues where 'Lone Ranger' left off--also highly recommended
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 | The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $1.23 Deals with both reservation and urban Indians, and their complex relationship
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 | Smoke Signals
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.96 Great! I can't say enough about this movie--it's everything you would want from the first 'all-native' production
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 | First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History by Colin G. Calloway
Buy used from: $3.98 I took this guy's class (at Dartmouth) and the book's interesting and readable. He's a great professor too, by the way.
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 | Skins
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $2.45 Definitely harder to watch than "Smoke Signals," but will be eye-opening for someone who hasn't been to a reservation. Good performance by Graham Greene
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 | Tribute to the Elders by The Black Lodge Singers
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $5.34 My favorite album from the best powwow singers--ever! No weird, new agey flutes and mystical harps either.
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 | Pow Wow Highway
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $5.09 So it's a little stereotypical... it's still really good. Gary Farmer's great.
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 | Dances with Wolves - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.25 A lot stereotypical, but still definitely a step in the right direction for mainstream American cinema.
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 | The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $1.48 Not an easy read--but worth it
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 | The Last of the Mohicans (Director's Expanded Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.00 What can I say? And how can you not at least love the music--and Eric Schweig as Uncas?
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 | Thunderheart
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.32 Again, so it has stupid mystical Indian stereotypes... it also has pretty accurate stuff on AIM, and a grim view of modern life on a reservation
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 | A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present by Ward Churchill
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $7.00 Churchill's the foremost Native activist-scholar out there today; be forewarned--not happy trails to a beach read, though
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 | On the Rez by Ian Frazier
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.92 Controversial--because it's written by a white guy--but I liked it
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 | Great Plains by Ian Frazier
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.49 Precursor to 'Rez,' it's wider in scope. Also, Frazier's apparently been to the place where Sitting Bull was shot (between Little Eagle and Eagle Butte). I didn't know other people knew about that!
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