Here are more books and films that have recently arrived at the library!
American Indian Policy In the Twentieth Century
Edited by Vine Deloria, Jr. A paperback reprint of the important collection of essays on federal Indian policy originally published (cloth) in 1985 by the U. of Oklahoma Press.
Everything You Know about Indians is Wrong
Paul Chaat Smith
A highly entertaining and, at times, searing critique of the deeply disputed role of American Indians in the United States. Smith walks a tightrope between comforting and dangerous, offering unrepentant skepticism and, ultimately, empathy: “This book is called Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong, but it’s a book title, folks, not to be taken literally. Of course I don’t mean everything, just most things. And ‘you’ really means we, as in all of us.”
Tribes Treaties, & Constitutional Tribulations
Vine Deloria Jr. & David Wilkins
"Federal Indian law . . . is a loosely related collection of past and present acts of Congress, treaties and agreements, executive orders, administrative rulings, and judicial opinions, connected only by the fact that law in some form has been applied haphazardly to American Indians over the course of several centuries. . . . Indians in their tribal relation and Indian tribes in their relation to the federal government hang suspended in a legal wonderland."
In this book, two prominent scholars of American Indian law and politics undertake a full historical examination of the relationship between Indians and the United States Constitution that explains the present state of confusion and inconsistent application in U.S. Indian law. The authors examine all sections of the Constitution that explicitly and implicitly apply to Indians and discuss how they have been interpreted and applied from the early republic up to the present. They convincingly argue that the Constitution does not provide any legal rights for American Indians and that the treaty-making process should govern relations between Indian nations and the federal government.
The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle T.V. Reed
Imagine the civil rights movement without freedom songs and the politics of women's movements without poetry. Or, more difficult yet, imagine an America unaffected by the cultural expressions and forms of the twentieth-century social movements that have shaped our nation. The first broad overview of social movements and the distinctive cultural forms that express and helped shape them, The Art of Protest shows the vital importance of these movements to American culture. In comparative accounts of movements beginning with the African American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and running through the Internet-driven movement for global justice ("Will the revolution be cybercast?") of the twenty-first century, T. V. Reed enriches our understanding of protest and its cultural expression. Reed explores the street drama of the Black Panthers, the revolutionary murals of the Chicano movement, the American Indian Movement's use of film and video, rock music and the struggles against famine and apartheid, ACT UP's use of visual art in the campaign against AIDS, and the literature of environmental justice. Throughout, Reed employs the concept of culture in three interrelated ways: by examining social movements as sub- or countercultures; by looking at poetry, painting, music, murals, film, and fiction in and around social movements; and by considering the ways in which the cultural texts generated by resistance movements have reshaped the contours of the wider American culture. The United States is a nation that began with a protest. Through the kaleidoscopic lens of artistic and cultural expression, Reed reveals how activism continues to remake our world. A comprehensive introduction to the culture of progressive movements in the United States.
Films:
The Salt Song Trail
The Salt Songs (Asi Huviav Purukain) are the sacred songs of the Southern Paiute (Nuwuvi) people. The songs are used in memorial ceremonies, for cultural revitalization and as a spriritual bond for the thirteen bands of Southern Paiutes living in California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.
Through the beautiful landscape of the Colorado Plateau, desrts and river valley, the salt song trail traces the journeys of ancestral peoples to historic and scared sites, and collection sites for salt and medicinal herbs. This film documents a historic gathering—a former Indian boarding school where Indian children were forcibly taken from their homes and forbiddent to practice their traditional cultures. Salt Song singers and dancers return to the school years later to sing for the children who never came home.
This film is a collaboration between The Cultural Conservancy, a non-profit indigenous rights organization, and The Salt Song Trail Project of the Souther Paiute Nation.
The ROMC Resource Library will officially open October 1st 2009.
Come check out all of our new publications and films on multiculturalism.
Please check back for updates on when our virtual library will be available.
