Websites
- www.oyate.org Native American members of CTA highly recommend anything that can be found at the Oyate website, which evaluates texts, resource materials and fiction by and about native people. It also distributes books and materials emphasizing writing and illustration by native people.
- www.heydaybooks.com/public/catalog.html Heyday Books in Berkeley has many books under the category of "California Indians" in its online catalog. The Heyday Foundation, which includes the Clapperstick Institute, publishes News from Native California, a quarterly magazine devoted to California Indian communities. Owner Malcolm Margolin wrote The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area and edited The Way We Lived: California Indian Stories, Songs, and Reminiscences, both of which are recommended by CTA members.
- www.nea.org/readacross/resources/nabooklist.html NEA recently released a recommended reading list by grade level in observance of Native American Heritage Month in November.
Curriculum materials
The Winds of Change: A Matter of Choices — This video/film is considered useful for discussion of contemporary issues facing the American Indian community. It's available from Wishing Well Distributing, P.O. Box 1008, Silver Lake, WI 53170; (800) 888-9355.
The American Indian: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, A Handbook For Educators was prepared by the American Indian Education Handbook Committee and published by the California Department of Education (revised 1991), $5 plus tax, Bureau of Publications, California Department of Education, P.O. Box 271, Sacramento, CA 95812-0271.
Indians of Northwest California: History/Social Science and Literature Based Curriculum Units (grades K-5) was written by classroom teachers, Indian Education Program staff and tribal resource people, and edited by Sarah Supahan for the Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District. Units correspond to educational frameworks. It's available in binder form through Oyate for $40 ($50 for institutions).
Books for teachers
Dr. Darryl Babe Wilson, who teaches Native American Studies at De Anza College in Cupertino and at CSU-Hayward, has written two highly recommended books: The Morning the Sun Went Down and Surviving in Two Worlds: Contemporary Native American Voices, cowritten with Lois Crozier-Hogle.
Fourth-grade teachers looking for an alternative to having students build a mission are urged to look into The Destruction of California Indians by Robert F. Hizer.
Other books for teachers that come highly recommended include:
Power and Place: Indian Education in America by Vine DeLoria Jr. and Daniel R. Wildcat.
Indigenous Educational Models for Contemporary Practice, In our Mother's Voices, edited by Maenette Kape'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Benham and Joanne Elisabeth Cooper.
Teaching American Indian Students, edited by Jon Reyhner.
Books for students
The following books are recommended for students because of their accuracy and cultural sensitivity:
Molly's Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen.
Whispers Along the Mission Trail by Gail Faber and Michele Lasagna.
A Time of Resistance, California Indians During the Mission Period, 1769-1848 by Sarah Supahan.
California Indian Country by Dolan H. Eargle.
Natives of the Golden State, The California Indians by Rupert Costo and Jeanette Henry Costo.
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford.
Northwest Indigenous Gold Rush History: The Indian Survivors of California's Holocaust, edited by Chag Lowry.
Our Home Forever, video and book by Bryon Nelson.
The Snake that Lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains and Other Ohlone Stories by Linda Yamane.
Indian Summer: Traditional Life Among the Choinumne Indians of California's San Joaquin Valley by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield.
