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Skin We're In: Native America
Written by and about native peoples throughout the Americas

   Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

"I will tell you something about stories...., they aren't just for entertainment."

   Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria

"The more we try to be ourselves the more we are forced to defend what we have never been."

   I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú

"My name is Rigoberta Menchú....what has happened to me has happened to many other people too: My story is the story of all poor Guatemalans. My personal experience is the reality of a whole people."

   Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill

Yes, that Ward Churchill. Read it and draw your own conclusions.

   Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

Don't forget the video "Smoke Signals," based on this book.

   Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

"June had wedged herself so tight against the door that when she sprang the latch she fell out. Into the cold. It was a shock like being born."

   Rain Is Not My Indian Name by Cynthia Leitich Smith

"The next day was my fourteenth birthday, and I'd never kissed a boy -- domestic-style or French. Right then, looking at that magazine, I decided to get myself a teen life."

   She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo

"This morning she thought she woke up...."
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   Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac

"I'm not sure if I'm a minor character or the heroine. Heck, I'm not even sure I'll be around to tell the end of it. But I don't think anyone else is going to tell this story. Wait! What was that noise?"