Resources for Exploring Native American Identity

MPL RESOURCES

• YouTube video of Montclair Public Library’s recent Adult School class on “Exploring Native American Identity: Forced Adoption, Self Discovery and Fraud,”
  • Participants: adoptee activist and author Michele Kriegman, author and producer Gabrielle Glaser, and Prof. Chris Matthews, chair of Anthropology and director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies program at Montclair State University.

• MPL’s “Native American Voices” reading lists! We have recommendations for adults, teens and children.

RELATED WORKS BY OUR SPEAKERS

• Michele Kriegman, “Finding Faith,” The Birth-Fathers Club series (not available through BCCLS)
• Gabrielle Glaser, 
  • Co-producer, “Generations Stolen,” Retro Report, Season 7, Episode 5 (not available through BCCLS) 
  • Author, “American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption”
• Chris Matthews, 
  • “A Struggle for Heritage: Archaeology and Civil Rights in a Long Island Community”

The rest of this list was compiled by Prof. Matthews.

OTHER BOOKS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICAN TOPICS

 All available through BCCLS

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States”
  • “All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans”
  • “Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure And Exclusion”
• Ned Blackhawk: “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U. S. History”
• David Treuer:  “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present”
• Vine Deloria, Jr.: “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

ABOUT THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT (ICWA)

BOOKS
Not available through BCCLS

• Kelly Gaines-Stoner, “The ICWA Handbook: A Legal Guide to the Custody and Adoption of Native American Children”
• Matthew Fletcher, “Facing the Future: ICWA at 30″
• Sandy White Hawk, “A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return”