Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. 1980. A basic
book for anyone "rethinking our history." Many facts which never made
the school text books. Harper & Row. New York, NY
Koning, Hans. Columbus: His Enterprise: Exploding the Myth, 1991, 128
pp. Examines the Eurocentric myth that Columbus was a benign explorer
or adventurer, and establishes his role as an exploiter of the American
continent introducing on a large scale genocide, cruelty and slavery.
For high school students and adults alike. Available from Monthly
Review Press, 122 West 27th Street, New York 10001
Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas
Transformed the World (wealth, food, federal system of government,
medicines, etc.). Crown Publishers, Inc., 225 Park Avenue South, New
York, NY 10003.
Akwesasne Notes. The Great Law of Peace and the Constitution of the
United States of America. 15pp. Documents the similarities bewteen the
U.S. Constitution (1787) and the Great Law of Peace of the Haudenausaunee
and Iroquois Confederacy (origins 10-15th century). Thomas Jefferson
and Benjamin Franklin found the democratic model among the Haudenasaunee
Six Nations Confederacy (Mohawks, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayugas, Senecas and
the Tuscaroras and the Lenni Lenape (gradfathers of the Algonquian family
of nations)). People were endowed with the right to speak freely, right to
assemble, and religious freedom. They also separated governmental powers
into three branches. Available from Tree of Peace Soceity, c/o Jake Swamp,
Box 188-C, Cook Road, Mohawk Nation, via Akwesasne, N.Y. 13655.
The Council on Interracial Books for Children. Chronicles of American
Indian Protest. 1979, 392 pp. A collection of articles documenting the
continued resistance to European and now U.S. aggression. Spans the
time from 1622 to 1978. Available from the Council on Interracial Books
for Children, 1841 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
Costa, Jeanette & Rupert. The Missions of California: A Legacy of
Genocide. 1987, 233 pp. The truth about California's Mission Indians.
Indian Historic Press: San Francisco
Curl, John. Columbus in the Bay of Pigs. What really happened between the
Tainos and Columbus when he arrived on today's Haiti/Dominican Republic.
Available from Homeward Press, PO Box 2307, Berkeley, Ca. 94702
Jane, Cecil, translater. The Journal of Christopher Columbus. Hear it
in his own words...the conquest of the Americas. Bonanza Books, Crown
Publishers.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus
and the Columbian Legacy. 1990. Covers all four of Columbus' voyages.
Discusses the impact of his discovery on the Native people and the
environment.
Jalmes, M. Annette, editor. The State of Native America: Genocide,
Colonialization and Resistance. A series of essays by noted American
Indian authors and activists exploring the circumstances confronted by
native people in the contemporary United States. Discusses treaty
rights, land and fishing rights, self-governance, relationship to
feminism, art and literature, case of Leonard Peltier, resource
development and uranium contamination on reservations, implications of
Columbus celebration.