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Violence Against Native Women

Violence against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men
National Institute of Justice Research Report
Why Native Women Have Highest Rates of Rape and Assault
High Country News
Relatives of Murdered Native Women Speak Out
The Guardian
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
Urban Indian Health Institute Report

The Beginning and End of Rape by Sarah Deer
Call Number: E-Book
ISBN: 1452945748
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid
Call Number: E78.B9 M34 2019
ISBN: 9781501160288
Publication Date: 2019-11-12

American Indian Movement (AIM)

A Brief History of the American Indian Movement
AIM Interpretive Center
Occupy Wounded Knee
The Atlantic
American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
Archives Unbound Collection of Primary Sources

We Are Still Here by Laura Waterman Wittstock (Text by); Rigoberto Menchu Tum (Introduction by); Dick Bancroft (Photographer)
Call Number: E98.T77 B35 2013
ISBN: 9780873518871
Publication Date: 2013-05-15
Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement by Ph.D., Bruce E Johansen
ISBN: 9781440803178
Publication Date: 2013-04-09
E-Book
Heart of the Rock by Adam Fortunate Eagle; Tim Findley; Vine Deloria (Foreword by)
Call Number: E78.C15 E16 2002
ISBN: 0806133961
Publication Date: 2002-04-15

Colonialism and Land Theft

Land Grab Universities
From High Country News, an exploration of whose land Land Grant Universities occupy and how they obtained it.
How Were 1.5 Billion Acres of Land so Rapidly Stolen?
Dr. Claudio Saunt
Indian lands, "Squatterism," and slavery: Economic interests and the passage of the Indian Removal act of 1830
Explorations in Economic History
Whose Land Am I On?
Whose Land

American Settler Colonialism by Walter L. Hixson
Call Number: E179.5 .H59 2013
ISBN: 9781137374257
Publication Date: 2013-12-05
The Trail of Tears and Indian Removal by Amy H. Sturgis
Call Number: E99.C5 S93 2007
ISBN: 9780313336584
Publication Date: 2006-11-30

Thief, Slave Trader, Murderer: Christopher Columbus and Caribbean Population Decline
Wicazo Sa Review (peer-reviewed article)

Boarding Schools

Death By Civilization
The Atlantic
Boarding Schools Overview
National Museum of the American Indian
Stories of Life In Indian Boarding Schools
Minnesota Public Radio
Map of Boarding Schools in the US

Kill the Indian, Save the Man by Ward Churchill
Call Number: E97 .C57 2004
ISBN: 0872864340
Publication Date: 2004-11-01