AIM of Colorado Reading List
The following is a list of Required Reading for the AIM of Colorado and a course taught by Professor Glenn Morris, Esq.
—————
American Indian Movement of Colorado Reading List
Compiled by
Russell Means and Professor Glenn Morris, Esq.
December, 1995
Books
Adas, Michael. Machines As the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Domination. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. Press, 1989.
Arciniegas, German. America In Europe: A History of the New World in Reverse. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986.
Akwesasne Notes. A Basic Call to Conciousness. Rooseveltown, NY Akwesasne Notes, 1978.
Batalla, Guillermo Bonfil. Utopia and Revolution (Utopia y Revolucion): Contemporary Political Thinking of the Indians of Latin America. Mexico City: Editorial Nueva Image, SA, 1981.
Berger, Thomas. A Long and Terrible Shadow: White Values and Native Rights in the Americas 1942-1992. Seattle: U. of Washington Press, 1992.
Braudel, Fernand. The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible: Civilization and Capitalism. 15th -18th Century, vol. 1. NY: Harper and Row, 1981.
Burger, Julian. Report From the Frontier: The State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. London: Zed Books, 1987.
Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: The Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
- Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1986.
Churchill, Ward. Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1993.
- When Predator Came. Englewood. CO: Aegis Publication 1995
Colby, Gerard with Charlotte Dennett. Thy Will Be Done. The Conquest of the
Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
Davidson, Basil. The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State. NY: Times Books, 1992.
Deloria, Vine, Jr. God is Red. Austin: U. of Texas Press, 1994 reissue.
Ereira, Alan. The Elder Brothers. New York: Vintage, 1990.
Grinde, Donald and Bruce Johansen. Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies, UCLA, 1991.
- Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples. Santa Fe, NM: Clearlight Publishers, 1995.
Hanke, Lewis. Aristotle and the American Indian: A Study in Race Prejudice in the Modern World. Bloomington: Indian U. Press, 1959.
Harring, Sidney L. Crow Dog’s Case: American Indian Sovereignty. Tribal Law and United States Law in the 19th Century. NY: Cambridge U. Press, 1994.
Jaimes, M. Annette, Ed. The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance. Boston: South End Press, 1992.
Josephy, Alvin, ed. America in 1492: The World of Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus. NY: Knopf, 1992.
Las Casas, Bartholomew de. The Destruction of the Indies. (1542), NY: Seabury Press, 1974.
Mander, Jerry. In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of Indian Nations. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1991.
Means, Russell. Where White Men Fear to Tread. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1995
Nandy, Ashis. The Intimate Enemy: The Loss and recovery of Self Under Colonialism. Delhi: Oxford U Press, 1983.
Rifkin, Jeremy. Declaration of a Heretic. Boston: Routledge, 1985.
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. NY: Vintage Press, 1994.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. NY: Knopf, 1990.
Shiva, Vandana. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development. London: Zed Books, 1989.
Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the new World. NY: Oxford U. Press, 1992.
Tinker, George. Missonary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993.
Trask, Haunani Kay. From a Native Daughter: Essays on Racism, Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i. Monroe, ME: College Courage Press, 1993.
Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. New York: Crown, 1988.
Williams, Robert A., Jr. The American Indian in Western Legal thought: The Discourses of Conquest. NY: Oxford U. Press, 1990.
Articles
Associated Press. “Common Mayans well off: Relics show middle class thrived, may have rivaled kings,” in Denver Post, 5 January 1993.
Barriero, Jose’, ed. “Indigenous Economics Toward a Natural World Order,” Akwe:kon Journal 9, no. 2 (Summer, 1992).
Cohen, Felix. “Americanizing the White Man,” in The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers of Felix Cohen. New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1960.
Hassler, Peter. “The Lies of the Conquistadors: Cutting Through the Myth of Human Sacrifice,” World Press Review, December, 1992, 28-29.
Means, Russell. “For the World to Live “Europe” Must Die,” Mother Jones, September, 1980.
Newcomb, Steven T. “The Evidence of Christian Nationalism in Federal Indian Law: The Doctrine of Discovery, Johnson v. McIntosh, and Plenary Power, “ New York University Review of Law and Social Change, Vol XX, No. 2, 1993.
Stevens, William K. “Scientists Revive a Lost Secret of Farming: Ancient Peruvian fields yield inexpensive techniques that rival modern technology,” New York Times, November 22, 1988, B-7.
- “Research in ‘Virgin’ Amazon Uncovers Complex Farming: Techniques let Indians harvest the jungle without destroying it,” New York Times, April 3, 1990, B-5.
