(Part 2) Top products from r/IndianCountry

One I recommend is "Shark Dialogues" By Kiana Davenport.

Beginning with the fateful meeting of a nineteenth-century Yankee sailor and the runaway daughter of a Tahitian chief, and sweeping over a century and a half of passionate, turbulent Hawaiian history, Shark Dialogues takes its place as the first novel to do justice to the rich heritage and cruel conflicts of the beautiful and beleaguered islands and their people. Surreal, provocative, erotic, magical, meaningful, and supremely wise, it is a tale of islanders and invaders, of victors and victims, of queens and whores, of lepers and healers. And at its center are Pono, the magnificent pure-blooded matriarch and seer, and her four mixed-blood granddaughters seeking to come to terms with the contradictions of their ancestries and the hungers of their hearts. Their loves, their hates, the bonds joining them, and the furies possessing them are interwoven with ancient legends and lore of the islands whose past offers their salvation and whose future is their fate. Kiana Davenport has written a major contribution to the literature of the Pacific Rim—a great reading experience both brilliantly contemporary in its form and timeless in its illumination.

https://www.amazon.com/Shark-Dialogues-Kiana-Davenport/dp/0452274583

Her first fantasy book was called Demon Drums. It's off Amazon for $4.

Carol took care with some aspects of Polynesian culture. In Hawai'i, an emphasis is placed on song and oral tradition as well as writing in native culture, so when Carol's characters want to cast a spell in her books, they don't point magic wands. They sing and gesture like dancers. They whisper into their hands and place it into the water for water magic, or they sing into the air for storm magic, or they hum a song while applying salve to make wounds heal better. I think it's actually cool the way she depicts it and her worldbuilding, and some other well-known authors have commented that Carol has been criminally ignored. Not even Hawai'i knew much about her, and they normally celebrate locals who make it big. I haven't read many authors who's attempted to branch outside of the "wand casts magic missile" version of magic in fantasy, probably because it's hard to do. I might copy her someday in that regard.

Full disclosure: my mother and some of my friends took her writing course. A couple were Hawaiian. They all said she was a hard teacher, had her favorites, and was apparently gunshy of anyone who had talent approaching hers, as many teachers do. She was hired because UH liked the prestige of hiring published authors as all colleges do. But she was more geared toward academia than writing, and I wasn't aware of anything she published while she was teaching. I understand she died a few years ago.

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Osceola and the Great Seminole War: A Struggle for Justice and Freedom by Thom Hatch

I've personally become very interested in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 which ended colonial occupation of native lands in New Mexico for a period of 12 years. Here's a short article on it from the Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanties and here is a podcast from r/askhistorians briefly covering the subject AskHistorians Podcast 038 - Pueblo Revolt of 1680. I've just ordered a copy of [The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenth-Century New Mexico](https://www.amazon.com/Pueblo-Revolt-1680-Resistance-Seventeenth-Century/dp/B0118255A8/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1477984977&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=Knaut%2C+Andrew+L.+The+Pueblo+Revolt+of+1680%2C+Norman%3A+University+of+Oklahoma+Press%2C+1995.+14.](https://www.amazon.com/Pueblo-Revolt-1680-Resistance-Seventeenth-Century/dp/B0118255A8/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1477984977&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=Knaut%2C+Andrew+L.+The+Pueblo+Revolt+of+1680%2C+Norman%3A+University+of+Oklahoma+Press%2C+1995.+14.)

"This site contains the entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, originally compiled and edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by The Burrows BrothersCompany, Cleveland, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century. Each file represents the total English contents of a single published volume. The original work has facing pages in the original French, Latin or Italian, depending on the author." - Quote from linked site

The Jesuit Journals are very biased and full of ignorant assumptions on the part of the missionaries but also offer a glimpse of what they saw when they arrived and how things went (from their perspective of course).

I've missed many other amazing and probably obvious choices but these are just some that I personally find particularly interesting or informative. I hope you, and I, get some good leads for more reading material.

Edit: fixed link

FOR CULTURE AND HISTORY:


I know this may seem a little odd at first, but I'd recommend checking out children's books such as this for a gist of the different cultural groups and you get a decent image of what they're like.

Then, if you find a particular area/culture/tribe/etc. that catches your eye after checking through some of these type of books I'd recommend trying to find some more detailed resources on them. This can be history books put out by your tribe of choice, anthropological studies, and collections of their legends.


FOR MODERN SOCIAL ISSUES:

This sub is rather helpful in encountering issues encountered in the modern era. Websites like indiancountrymedianetwork.com tend to be rather helpful informing people of issues affecting Indigenous communities across the Americas.

Nice links! Fun fact: I'm related to the Pinkham's.

Also, I have received your PM (the most recent) and will reply soon. Just got lots of things on my plate. :)

Another good suggestion is The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest by Alvin M. Josephy Jr.

They already do share tremendous history! There are actually a lot of Irish (Scotch too) immigrants that came to the infant colony of Georgia in the 1740s and 1750s that became deerskin traders amongst the Choctaw, Creek, Cherokee, Catawba, and more! Many married Indian wives while living and trading on the frontier, and sired mestizo children who were very well-positioned politically due to their dual-cultural upbringing.

If you want to check out a couple great books on the subject I recommend:

George Galphin and the Transformation of the Georgia–South Carolina Backcountry

Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815

"Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World" -- Jack Weatherford

chapter 8: The Founding Indian Fathers

[edit - also chapter 7: Liberty, Anarchism, and the Noble Savage]

https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Givers-Native-Americans-Transformed/dp/0307717151/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=9D35505VNHSMH2F02NBQ

Choctaw author D. L. Birchfield's Field of Honor is well informed. UKB author Sequoyah Guess self-published a series of vampire novels that's highly praised.

For film, Maori director Taika Waititi created What We Do in the Shadows, a horror comedy.

A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement by Kent Blansett.

The book is the culmination of 20+ years of Dr. Blansett's work on Richard Oakes, so this is a bit of a shameless plug for my professor/thesis committee member, but it's still an amazing book.

Vnhesse, I know you've covered your bases on research and have all the info you need, but I can't pass this post up without recommending And Still the Waters Run by Angie Debo. It's well written and more informative and comprehensive than anything else I've read on the subject.

By "Indigenous knowledge keepers," I mean Indigenous people who have considerable knowledge of their people's culture and traditions. For example, WSANEC Elders Violet Williams, Elsie Claxton, Dave Elliot and Christopher Paul were the Indigenous knowledge keepers for the book Saanich Ethnobotany.

By "settler-colonial-made lens" I mean depictions of us in Hollywood, academia, literature, etc. that were done without any collaboration or consent from Indigenous communities. Let's say people were recreating looks from The Paradise Syndrome from Star Trek. That would be kind of troubling for me.

However, if they're learning from regalia makers who are willingly sharing that information, then it's more of a relationship-based exchange of ideas and skills. They're asking for consent and that make a big difference.

I dont' understand - Do you not believe that the company was founded by a man named Arthur Savage? You can see his name on the Patents from 1887 https://www.google.com/patents/US366512

Do you doubt that there was a man named Chief Lame Deer? This book is made from the transcripts of his son's audio recordings: https://www.amazon.ca/Lame-Seeker-Visions-Richard-Erdoes/dp/0671888021 He seems like an incredible man. The logo clearly has his likeness, and there are pictures of him holding a the rifle with his emblem on them. http://insideflipside.com/images/savage%20arms%2070.jpg

I believe there is a place for skepticism, but it can easily be misplaced. I can only imagine what he would think of his logo being replaced today.

As for why the company is removing the logo now - It's because its much easier to avoid an issue than have to educate & inform people

I'm sorry you've been disconnected from your people and culture. Perhaps something in this book will help you feel closer.

I have been reading Lies my Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. He does a very decent and attempted unbiased approach at describing the interactions between European colonists and the indigenous cultures.

Christopher Columbus, for example, was a greedy Spanish imperialist seeking riches for himself and the monarchy. He condoned and promoted genocide (against the Haitians), sex trafficking (of young native females), and slave trading on a vast scale. I won't go into the bucket list of his atrocities, but they were the templet used moving forward into the continental genocides (North & South America, Australia, Africa) that followed.

Yet we are told in our schools that he "sailed the ocean blue," and was a swell guy who founded America.

> can't really find info anywhere

Book: https://www.amazon.com/500-Nations-Illustrated-History-American/dp/0517163942

DVD: https://www.amazon.com/500-Nations-Kevin-Costner/dp/B07SBCJ48X/

Start there. Then come back with questions if anything seemed to pique your interest.

I also found Digital Aboriginal: The Direction of Business Now: Instinctive, Nomadic, and Ever-Changing and Digital Aboriginal: Radical business strategies for a world without rules... but don't think those are what you're looking for based on the titles...

A book about it came out recently and we're witnessing the press push for it: https://www.amazon.com/Killers-Flower-Moon-Osage-Murders/dp/0385534248/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496430551&sr=8-1&keywords=osage

>The protestors are dissatisfied with actions taken by the province to turn over former Burtch Correctional Facility land to the Six Nations band council rather than the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the traditional government

And what better way to resolve a pissing contest between an elected band council and a hereditary one, than to block public highways and annoy non-Natives who have absolutely nothing to do with this.

Well at least they're not beating people up to within inch of their lives.

" Over the course of the spring and summer of that first year, the criminal actions of the occupiers included throwing a vehicle over an overpass, the burning down of a hydro transformer which caused a three-day blackout, the torching of a bridge and the hijacking of a police vehicle. During the very worst period, ordinary residents living near the site had to pass through native barricades, show native-issued "passports", and were occasionally threatened with body searches and routinely subjected to threats. Much of this lawless conduct occurred under the noses of the Ontario Provincial Police, who, often against their own best instincts, stood by and watched: "

" a home builder named Sam Gualtieri, working on the house he was giving his daughter as a wedding present, was attacked by protesters and beaten so badly he will never fully recover from his injuries"

And police fraternized with these criminals, and the Canadian government was too shit scared to seem to appear to be racist by enforcing the Criminal Code. Pathetic.

https://www.amazon.ca/Helpless-Caledonias-Nightmare-Anarchy-Failed/dp/0385670400

I probably won't be able to respond to all the comments on this post. Like yesterday my posting ability will be throttled. I'm not sure if that's a Reddit algorithm or moderator censorship. At any point, I'm not a troll, I'm here to stay and discuss.