Research Guides: Native American Heritage Month (SC): Additional Resources

Additional Resources

American Indian Experience (The American Mosaic)
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Essays that provide introductions, suggested readings, and selected documents relating to various aspects of American Indian history (pre-contact-present). Useful for exploring topics related to colonial conflicts, trade, native land rights, US policy, and more. Includes articles by Native American contributors.

Directed Reading Site: Indian Country A History of Land: 1790 - Present
This website is the final project of the student-run course class Indigenous Communities and the Lands They Belong To at SWARTHMORE COLLEGE. The students contributing to this project are: Matthew Chen, Sky Deswert, Nora Kerrich, Daniel Orr, Julia Wakeford, Sarah Welz Geselowitz, and Ciara Williams.
Friends Historical Library: Lenni Lenape Holdings
Selections from the Friends Historical Library, located in McCabe about the Lenni Lenape tribe.
Native Knowledge 360°
Native Knowledge 360° (NK360°) provides educators and students with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. Most Americans have only been exposed to part of the story, as told from a single perspective through the lenses of popular media and textbooks. NK360° provides educational materials and teacher training that incorporate Native narratives, more comprehensive histories, and accurate information to enlighten and inform teaching and learning about Native America.

High Steel Documentary
A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk Indians of Kahnawake, near Montreal, famed for their skill in erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers. The film shows their nimble work, high above the pavement, but there are also glimpses of the quieter community life of the old Kahnawake Reserve.

Kanopy
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Kanopy offers pay-per-title access to a wide variety of documentaries and film festival winners.

Kanopy features documentary "Reel Injun:" In this feature length documentary about the evolution of the image of North American Native people ("The Indians") in famous Hollywood movies, Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond examines how the myth of the movie "Injun" has influenced the world's understanding - and misunderstanding - of Natives. With clips from hundreds of classic and recent films, and candid interviews with celebrated Native and non-Native directors, writers, actors and activists, Reel Injun traces the evolution of cinema's depiction of Native people from the silent film era to the present day.