Recomended Books
Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford - grade 10-up
How the cultural, social, and political practices of Indians have transformed the way of life as lived throughout the world. Traces the crucial contributions made by American Indians to government, democratic institutions, medicine, agriculture, architecture and ecology. A Fawcett Columbine Book, Ballantine Books, 1988. ISBN 0-449-90496-2

Black Elk Speaks as told through John G. Neihardt by Nicholas Black Elk grade 10-up
Black Elk’s profound visions of the unity of humanity, together with historical accounts of the Lakota Nation’s struggle for survival in the late 19th century. University of Nebraska Press, 1932. ISBN 0-8032-6170-5

Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria grade 7-up
An evocation of the life of a Dakota woman before Europeans settled the Northern Plains. Born in 1889 on the Yanktown Reservation, Ella lived as a child on the Standing Rock Reservation, where Kevin and his Hunkpapa Lakota tiyospaye live now. A Bison paperback from the University of Nebraska Press, 1932. ISBN 0-8032-8359-8

Land of the Spotted Eagle by Luther Standing Bear grade 4-up
Standing Bear looks back at his Lakota culture and the key values that enabled the society to thrive in interdependence prior to the European invasion. University of Nebraska Press, 1933. Paperback. ISBN 0-8032-5890-9