Library
Welcome to the Library!! If you are looking for information on Native American culture, history, and authors, you might begin here. There are linkes to a variety of interesting resources. And if you have links to favorite places on these topics please send us a comment with the topic and the link. If you are writing grants or researching issues on Native American Health issues see the links to PubMed for scholarly journal articles.
Native American Heritage Month: Readings from Scott Momaday, Joe Bruchac and others; and webcasts (You will need to download Real Player to hear these–instructions are included in the website.)
The History of Native People in Colorado: From the Ute Mountain Ute Nation .
History Colorado Now for Educators: Resources for Hispanic and Native American history.
Enjoy this presentation by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki), story teller, author and educator about American Indian Soldiers of the Civil War, based on his book, Walk Toward the Thunder.
Enjoy this presentation by Scott Momaday (Kiowa) novelist, poet and educator. Some of his books include: The Way to Rainy Mountain, The House Made of Dawn.
An interview with R.Carlos Nakai,Will Clipman & William Eaton from Canyon Records and a journey into contemporary (and very unique) Native American music.
Boarding School Video Trailer
Powwow: Powwow Etiquette
Quality of Life Indicators for the Pikes Peak Region (including Academic Excellent data)
Research on Native Americans from the University Archives of Special Collections
Native American History Research
Native American Encyclopedia : The Native Peoples
National Museum of the American Indian
Institute of American Indian Arts – here is a review about an anthology celebrating the 400th Annivesary of Sante Fe! The anthology, White Shell Water Place contains short essays by promonent Native giving their perspectives of Sante Fe.
National Indian Education Association—Education Facts and History
North American Indian Cultures
American Indian Culture Research Center
Critical Biography of Native American Books for K-12
Research Guides: Native American Studies
Digital Stories by Native People (contemporary Native people tell their stories using digital media–video)
Audio information about Native American prayers, drum, sacred herbs and the story of the White Buffalo Calf Woman
Festival of Native American Culture
Native American Tribes and Culture
List of Federally Recognized tribes
Information about Ancestry — who are your relatives?
Learn to speak Navajo: Rosetta Stone now as a Navajo language series! See the article about the development of this series in the Navajo Times.
Native American Authors (by name and by tribe)
Amazing Grace Sung in Cherokee on You Tube
Floyd red Crow Westerman (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate) on Native American Prophecies
A great list of resources, people, and organizations that support education for Native American students and for those who work with Native American students at the National Service Learning Clearing House.
Legacy of the Boardings Schools and Histories of Native American Education:
(Your local library may have these or the librarian can order them via interlibrary loan for you. Or you can find them at Amazon.com or other bookstores).
Boarding School Video Trailer
Adams, D. W. (1995). Education for extinction: American Indians and the boarding school experience –1875-1928. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
Carter, F. (2001). The education of Little Tree. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
Child, B. J. (1998). Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
Duran, E. (2006). Healing the soul wound: Counseling with American Indians And other Native Peoples. NY: Teachers Press.
Duran, E. & Duran, B. (1995). Native American post colonial psychology. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Huff, D. J. (1997). To live heroically: Institutonal racisim and American Indian education. Albany, NY: State University of NY Press.
Little Moon, W. & Ridgeway, J. (2009). They called me uncilvilized: The memoire of an everday Lakota Man from Wounded Knee. iUniverse.com
Mann, H. (1997). Cheyenne-Arapaho Education (1871-1982): A drama of human dimensions about individuals,families, tribes and the federal government. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado.
Reyhner, J. & Eder, J. (2004). American Indian education: A history. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Riney, S. (1999). The Rapid City Indian School : 1989-1933. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
There are also many articles about the experiences and effects of the boarding school era. You can find them by using “American Indian AND boarding schools” in the search engines of the online library data bases at your school library or at the public library.
Non-profit organizations serving Native Americans in the U.S. and Canada.
Pikes Peak Public Library: Here you can find your favorite authors online and request them to be delivered by the Book Mobile or pick them up at your neighborhood library facility. You can also find journal articles at the online library. It’s a wonderful resource. Be sure you have your library card and pin number!!
National Insititute of Health and PubMed:
Articles and reports from the National Library of Medicine , National Institute of Health, about Native American health (including links to Pub Med articles) For those who are writing grants, writing papers for school and for other projects and need information about Native Americans and health issues such as alcohol and substance abuse, prevention, treatment, recovery and strategies for healing, PubMed is an outstanding resource. This data base is free and includes references to many scholarly journal articles. Some of the articles can be downloaded from the data base. Others can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan through your local school or community library. (That is generally a free service for library card holders).
Colorado Springs Poet Laureate Project: Are you interested in Poetry? Check out the Colorado Springs Poet Laureate page. There are are many interesting resources there, and an large number of local poets. (Could you be one of them??) Be sure to review each page. There is a section ‘for educators” that has lists of resources and information about poetry contests and places to publish your poems. There is also a page that gives some “assessment” information to help you review your poem.