Library
The Sapsik’ʷałá Library is a resource for all current Sapsik’ʷałá students as well as former students and others in the University community with ties to Indigenous Education. Our library features literature that honor and respect Indigenous, Native American, and Tribal communities’ cultural ways of knowing, philosophies, and pedagogies. The Sapsik’ʷałá resource library features a multitude of fiction, non-fiction, autobiographical and historical accounts as well as contemporary Indigenous scholarship, curricula, and UOTeach/EDST resources to support the learning of Sapsik’ʷałá educators.
To check out books and other items in the Sapsik’ʷałá Library, email your request to sapsikwala@uoregon.edu.
*Some books may be considered artifacts of archaic views and miseducation regarding Indigenous Peoples
Contents
- 1 Autobiography
- 2 Children and Young Adult
- 3 Curriculum
- 4 Educational Resources
- 5 Fiction
- 6 History
- 7 Indigenous Education
- 8 Indigenous Education History
- 9 Indigenous Education Resource
- 10 Indigenous Feminist Methodologies
- 11 Indigenous Studies
- 12 Language and Culture
- 13 Non-Fiction
- 14 Poetry
- 15 Storytelling and Culture
- 16 Textbooks
- 17 Video
Autobiography
| Alvord, Lori Arviso, MD and Van Pelt | The Scalpel and the Silver Bear |
| Eastman (Ohiyesa), Charles A | From the Deep Woods to Civilization |
| Hale Campbell, Janet | Blood Lines-Odyssey of a Native Daughter |
| Nassdijj | The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams-a memoir by Nasdijj |
| Neihardt, John G & Nicholas Black Elk | Black Elk Speaks |
| Pelitier, Leonard | Prison Writings-My Life is My Sun Dance |
| Wallis, Velma | Raising Ourselves-A Gwich’in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River |
| Youst, Lionel | She’s Tricky Like Coyote |
| Olsen, Kristine | Standing Tall: The Lifeway of Kathryn Jones Harrison, Chair of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community |
Children and Young Adult
| Badt, Karin Luisa | Hair There and Everywhere! |
| Badt, Karin Luisa | On Your Feet! |
| Bronson, Wilfird S | Pinto’s Journey |
| Bruchac, Joseph | A Boy Called Snow |
| Bruchac, Joseph | My Name is America-The Journal of Jesse Smoke: A Cherokee Boy |
| Bruchac, Joseph | The First Strawberries-A Cherokee Story |
| Bruchac, Joseph | The Heart of a Chief |
| Bruchac, Joseph & Michael J Caduto | Keepers of the Night |
| Bruchac, Joseph & Michael J Caduto | Native Plant Stories |
| Burchac, Joseph & Michael J Caduto | Keepers of Life |
| Crow, Joe Medicine | Brave Wolf and the Thunderbird |
| Dawavendewa, Gerald | The Butterfuly Dance |
| Dennis, Yvone Wakim S & Hirschfelder | Children of Native America Today |
| Dupusi, Jenny Kay & Kathy Kacer | I Am Not a Number |
| Dwyer, Mindy | Coyote in Love |
| Fletcher, Sydney E | The Story of the American Indians |
| Goble, Paul | The Gift of the Sacred Dog |
| Igloliorte, John | An Inuk Boy Becomes a Hunter |
| Jerry Lipka | Cloudwalker |
| London, Johnathan & Lanny Pinola | Fire Race-A Karuk coyote Tale About How Fire Came to the People |
| Lopez, Barry | Crow and Weasel |
| Montano, Marty Kreipe de | Coyote In Love With a Star |
| Sloat, Teri | The Eye of the Needle |
| Sloat, Teri & Betty Huffmon | Berry Magic |
| Stuart, Gene S | Three Little Indians |
| Krensky, Stephen | Children of the Earth and Sky |
| Morris, Ann | Houses and Homes |
| Perez, Georgina | Plate Full of Color |
| Blomgren, Jennifer | Where would I be in an Evergreen Tree? |
| Blomgren, Jennifer | Where do I sleep? |
| Perez, Georgina | Tricky Treats |
| Perez, Georgina | Through the Eyes of the Eagle |
| Johnson, Michael | Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America |
| Sierra, Judy | Wild about Books |
| Perez, Georgina | Knees Lifted High |
| Hopkinson, Deborah | Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt |
Curriculum
| Bigelow, Bill and Bob Peterson, Eds. | Rethinking Columbus The Next 500 Years |
| Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson Eds. | Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for an Unjust World |
| Bruce, Heather E., Baldwin, Anna E, Umphrey,Christabel | Sherman Alexie in the Classroom “This is not a silent movie. Our voices will save our lives” |
| Christensen, Linda | Teaching for Joy and Justice |
| Couchman, Linda Jessie & Linda Marie Hailey | Seaman’s Journey with Lewis and Clark |
| Building Indigenous Community: A Model for American Indian Teacher Development | |
| A Lesson in American History: The Japanese American Experience |
Educational Resources
| Bendtro, Larry K., Martin Brokenleg, & Steve Van Bockern | Reclaiming Youth at Risk Our Hope for the Future |
| Cunningham, Patricia & Richard Allington | Classrooms That Work: They Can All Read and Write |
| Davis, Heather A. & Jessica A. Summers | An Interpersonal Approach to Classroom Management |
| Delpit, Lisa | The Skin that We Speak |
| Ewalt, Patricia L & Edith M Freeman | Multicultural Issues in Social Work |
| Glanz, Jeffrey | Action Research: An Educational Leader’s Guide to School Improvement |
| Gorski, Paul C | Multicultural Education and the Internet |
| Joel Monture | Transforming the Culture of Schools |
| Kozol, Jonathan | Savage Inequalities |
| Langer, Judith A. | Envisioning Literature: Literary Understanding and Literature Instruction |
| Lindsey, Randall B. & Laraine M Roberts | The Culturally Proficient School |
| Loewen, James W. | Lies My Teacher Told Me |
| Miller, Dorcas S | Stars of the First People: Native American Star Myths and Constellations |
| Milner, Richard H. | Raceing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms |
| National Research Council | How People Learn-Brain, Mind, Experience & School |
| Thomas, Edward Harper | Measurement and Evaluation in Psychology and Education |
| Wong, Harry K & Rosemary T Wong | The First Days of School |
| American Psychological Association | APA Publication Manual |
| Rethinking Schools, Winter 2011-2012: STOP the School to Prison Pipeline | |
| Conley, David | College Knowledge |
| Spring, Joel | The American School |
| Conley, David | College and Career Ready |
| Starkman, Neal & Peter Scales & Clay Roberts | Great Places to Learn |
| Roseberry-McKibben, Rosemary | Multi Cultural Students with Special Language Needs (2 books) |
| Tools for Harmony Within Diversity: Skills for Daily Interpersonal Peacemaking | |
| Student | Native Americans and Mathematics Annotated Bibliography |
| Student | Native American Resource File: Spider Woman’s Granddaughters |
| Constantino, Magda & Denny S. Hurtado | NW Native American Reading Curriculum II |
| Student | Diabetes Health/Science Unit Lesson |
| Agarwal-Rangnath, Ruchi (2 copies) | Social Studies, Literacy, and Social Justice |
| American Psychological Association | APA Publication Manual |
| Boutte, Gloria Swindler | Resounding Voices |
| Clark, Ron | The Essential 55 |
| Codell, Esmi Raji | Educating Esme-Diary of a Teacher’s First Year |
| Collins, Paul | Community Writing-Researching Social Issues Through Composition |
| Cooper,Pamela J & Cheri J Simonds | Communication for the Classroom Teacher |
| Pollock, Mica | Schooltalk: Laying a Foundation for Equity |
| Rothstein-Fisch, Carrie & Elise Trumbull | Managing diverse Classrooms: How to Build on Students’ Cultural Strengths |
| Schniedewind, Nancy & Ellen Davidson | Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective |
| Seale, Doris & Beverly Slapin | Open Minds to Equality |
| Shoemaker, Betty Jean & Larry Lewin | Innovative Instruction: A Menu of Teaching Tools for Effective Student Learning |
| Slattery, Patrick | Curriculum Development in the Postmodern Era |
| Spring, Joel | Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality |
Fiction
| Alexie, Sherman | Indian Killer |
| Alexie, Sherman | Reservation Blues |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Business of Fancydancing |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven |
| Alexie, Sherman | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian |
| Cannon, LeGrand , Jr. | Look to the Mountain |
| Lesley, Craig | Talking Leaves-Contemporary native American Short Stories |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Ceremony |
| Welch, James | Winter in the Blood |
History
| Beckham, Stephen Dow | The Indians of Western Oregon |
| Berg, Laura | The First Oregonians, Second Edition |
| Chief Seattle | How Can One Sell the Air |
| Costco, Rupert & Jeannette Henry Costco | Natives of the Golden State: The California Indians |
| Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne | An Indigneous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People |
| Hawke, Sharryl Davis & James E Davis | Seeds of Change-The story of Cultural Exchange after 1492 |
| Hinton Leanne | Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages |
| James, Cheewa | MODOC The Tribe That Wouldn’t Die |
| Kadlecek, Edward & Mabel Kadlecek | Wiyaxayxt / Wiyaakaa’awn / As Days Go By: Our History, Our Land, Our People –The Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla |
| Kape’ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Benham | wiyaxayxt as days go by wiyaakaa?awn |
| Karson, Jennifer | To Kill an Eagle-Indian Views on the Last Days of Crazy Horse |
| Mackey, Harold | The Kalapuyans |
| Miller, Robert J | Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny |
| Norton, Jack | Genocide ijn Northwestern California |
| Trafzer, Clifford E & Richard D Scheuerman | Renegade Tribe-The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest |
| Utley, Robert M & Willicomb E Washburn | Indian Wars |
| Welch, James; Stekler, Paul | Killing Custer-The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians |
| Beyond the Oregon Trail: Oregon’s Untold History | |
| Date, Barbara | UOTeach/Sapsikwala Program Handbook |
Indigenous Education
| Welch, James; Stekler, Paul | Killing Custer-The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians |
| Pratt, Richard Henry;Utley, Robert M | Battlefield & Classroom |
| Benham, Maenette K.P.& Stein, Wayne J | The Renaissance of American Indian Higher Education-Capturing the Dream |
| Bergstrom,Amy & cleary, Linda Miller | The Seventh Generation |
| Brendtro, Larry K, Brokenleg, Martin | Reclaiming Youth at Risk |
| Bruchac, Francis Lee and James | Reclaiming the Vision |
| Cajete, Gregory | Look to the Mountain |
| Cleary, Linda Miller & Peacock, Thomas D | Collected Wisdom |
| Don Trent Jacobs & Jessica Jacobs-Spencer | Teaching Virtues |
| Garrod, Andrew & Larimore, Colleen | Frist Person First Peoples |
| Grande, Sandy | Red Pedagogy |
| Katz, William Loren | Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice-In Our Mother’s Voice |
| King, Kendall A | Black Indians |
| Kozol, Jonathan | Widening the Circle-Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for American Indian Children |
| Reyhner, John | Teaching American Indian Students |
| Sabzalian, Leilani | Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools |
| Silko, Leslie Marmon | Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit |
| Vine, Deloria Jr & Wildcat, Daniel R | Power and Place |
Indigenous Education History
| Pratt, Richard Henry & Robert M Utley | Battlefield & Classroom |
| Adams, David Wallace | Education for Extinction |
| Child, Brenda J | Boarding School Seasons-American Indian Families, 1900-1940 |
| Giago, Tim & Kciji Nanwica | Children Left Behind The Dark Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools |
| Johnston, Basil H | Indian School Days |
| La Flesche, Francis | The Middle Five |
| Lomawaima, K Tasianina | They Called it Prairie Light-The Story of Chilocco Indian School |
| McCarty, Teresa L | A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling |
| Mihesuah, Devon A | Cultivating the Rosebuds The Education of Women at the Cherokee Femal Seminary 1851-1909 |
Indigenous Education Resource
| Harrison, Barbara | Collaborative Programs in Indigenous Communities-From Fieldwork to Practice |
| Jones, Guy W & Sally Moomaw | Lessons from Turtle Island |
| Kleymeyer, Charles David | Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development |
| Klopotek Class (ES 407/507) | History of Native American Education |
| Schunk, Dale | A Broken Flute;The Native Experience in Books for Children |
| Stutzman, Esther | Thanksgiving…A Resource Guide An Indian Curriculum Unit |
| Swisher, Karen Gayton & John Tippeconnic | Next Steps: Research and Practice to Advance Indian Education |
| Tuhiwai Smith, Linda | Decolonizing methodologies Research and Indigenous Peoples |
| Regional Educational Lab Network | Culturally Responsive Mathematics & Science Education |
| Klopotek, Brian | History of Native American Education Es 407 |
| Lara, Julia | Voices of Native Educators: Strategies that Support Success of Native High School Students |
| Student | Sample EDTPA Social Studies Task Assessment |
| Kent, William Eugene | The Siletz Indian Reservation 1855-1900 |
| ODE | Indians in Oregon Today: A 4th Grade Social Studies Supplement |
| Tuhiwai Smith, Linda | Decolonizing Methodologies |
| Merculieff, Ilarion & Libby Roderick | stop talking: Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education |
Indigenous Feminist Methodologies
| Allen, Paula Gunn | The Sacred Hoop-Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions |
| Davis, Dana-Ain & Christa Craven | Feminist Ethnography |
| Mankiller, Wilma | Every Day is a Good Day-reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women |
| Wall, Steve | Wisdom’s Daughters-Conversations wioth Women Elders of Native America |
Indigenous Studies
| Beauliue, David;Figueira, Anna M | The Power of Native Teachers |
| Baker, Lee D | Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture |
| Baughman, Michael & Hadella, Charlotte | Warm Springs Millennium-Voices from the Reservation |
| Beckham, Stephan Dow | Oregon Indians Voices from two Centuries |
| Berkhofer, Rober F Jr | The White Man’s Indian |
| Biolsi, Thomas | Deadliest Enemies: Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservations |
| Chavers, Dean | Racism in Indian Country |
| Churchill, Ward | A Little Matter of Genocide |
| Deloria, Vine Jr | Custer Died for Your Sins |
| Deloria, Vine Jr | God is Red – A Native View of Religion |
| Frazier, Ian | On the Rez |
| Garroutette, Eva Maria | Real Indians-Identity and Survival of Native America |
| Huhndorf, Shari M | Going Native-Indians in the American Cultural Imagination |
| Iverson, Peter | We are Still Here-American Indians in the Twentieth Century |
| Jacob, Michelle | Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Keteri Tekakwitha |
| Jacob, Michelle | Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing |
| Jaimes, M Annette | The State of Native America-Genocide, Colonization and Resistance |
| Johnson, Troy | You Are on Indian Land-Alcatraz Island, 1969-1971 |
| Johnson, Troy R | Alcatraz-Indian Land Forever |
| Joseph, Gary | Quest for Dignity: Synthesizing in Indian Recovery |
| Katz, William Loren | Black Indians |
| Lyons, Mohawk, Deloria, Hauptman, Berman, Grinde, Berkey, Venables | Exiled in the Land of the Free |
| Nabokov, Pete | Native American Testimony |
| Peacock, Thomas | To Be Free |
| Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples | People to People, Nation to Nation |
| Riley, Patricia | Growing Up Native American |
| Ruby, Robert H & John A Brown | A Guide to the Indian Tribes of the Pacific Northwest |
| Slapin, Beverly & Doris Seale | Through Indian Eyes |
| Strickland, Rennard | Tonto’s Revenge |
| Tengan, Ty P. Kāwika | Native Men Remade |
| Warrior, Robert Allen | Tribal Secrets |
| Waziyatawin, Angela Wilson & Michael Yellow Bird | For Indigenous Eyes Only: A Decolonization Handbook |
| Weatherford, Jack | Native Roots-How the Indians Enriched America |
Language and Culture
| Bol, Marsha C | Stars Above Earth Below |
| Hedges, Ken | Fibers and Forms: Native American Basketry of the West |
| Hirschfelder & Kreipe De Montano | The Native American Almanac |
| Imada, Adria L. | Aloha America: Hula Circuits Through the U.S. Empire |
| Institute of American Indian Arts | Creativity is Our Tradition Three Decades of Contemporary Indian Arts |
| King, Kendall A | Language Revitilation Processes and prospects-Quichua in the Ecuadorian Andes |
| Miller, Bruce | Our Original Games: a Look at Aboriginal Sport in Canada |
| Nettle, Daniel & Suzanne Romaine | Vanishing Voices-The Extinction of the World’s Languages |
| Olson, Kristine | Language, Culture and Teaching-Critical Perspectives for a New Century |
| Robert Thorndike, M & Tracy Thorndike-Christ | Chinook a History and Dictionary |
| Trueba, Henry T & Yali Zou | Power in Education-The Case of Miao University Students |
| Hinton, Leanne & Kenneth Hale | The Green Book of Language Revitalization in Practice |
Non-Fiction
| Allen, Paula Gunn | Off the Reservation-Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing |
| Allen, Paula Gunn | Pocahontas |
| Bedford, Denton R. | Tsali |
| Beeson, John | Plea for the Indians |
| Bentley, Kenneth | Women of Courage |
| Bloom, John | To Show What an Indian Can Do-Sports at NA Boarding Schools |
| Cotton, Larry | Counting Coup |
| Crow Dog, Mary and Richard Erdoes | Lakota Woman |
| Howe, LeAnne | Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story |
| Humes, Edward | School of Dreams Making the Grade at a Top American HS |
| Pelzer, Dave | A Child Called “It” |
Poetry
| Swann, Brian, ed. | Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology |
| Interdisciplinary Manual for American Indian Inclusion | |
| Frybread Power: A Small Gathering of Native American Poets |
Storytelling and Culture
| Little Turtle, Nipmuck Tribe, Dudley Band | Anthology of Traditional Tobacco Stories |
| Baylor, Bird | And It Is Still That Way-Legends told by Arizona Indian Children |
| Blevins, Wade | …And Then the Feather Fell |
| Bruchac, Joseph | Our Stories Remember-american Indian History, culture & values through storytelling |
| Bruchac, Joseph | Turkey Brother-And Other Tales(Iroquois folk Stories) |
| Clark, Ella E | Indian Legends of the Pacific Northwest |
| Cohlene, Terri | Dancing Drum-A Cherokee Legend |
| Cohlene, Terri | Turquoise Boy-A Navajo Legend |
| Maryboy, Nancy C & , David Begay | Sharing the Skies |
| Rockwell, David | Giving Voice to Bear-North American Indian Rituals, Myths and Images of the Bear |
| St Pierre, Mark & Tilda Long Soldier | Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers and Pipe Carriers, Medicine Women of the Plains Indians |
| Zitkala-Sa | American Indian Stories |
Textbooks
| ORELA Middle Grades Mathematics Secrets Study Guide: ORELA Test Review for the Oregon Educator Licensure Assessments | |
| Johnson, James A., Diann Musial, Gene E. Hall, & Donna M. Gollnick | Foundations of American Education |
| Adams, Shauna, Philip Dirks, & Keissha Edwards | The Young Child: Development from Prebirth Through Age Eight |
| McGraw Hill | Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States |
Video
| Standing Strong The Tribal Nations of Western Oregon DVD |
| Shadow of Salmon DVD & Resource Guide |