Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the boarding School Experience. University Press of Kansas, 1995. 396 pages

An interesting and thorough overview of the origins and results of U.S. government policy concerning Indian Education.

 

“A Brief History of the Flathead Tribes.” Compiled by the Flathead Culture Committee. 26 pages © 1993

Concise and accessible overview of some of the important pieces of history and culture of the tribes of the Flathead Reservation.

 

The Place of Falling Waters. Roy Bigcrane & Thompson Smith. ©1991

A Native American produced documentary history of the Flathead Reservation from the perspective of the Indian people who live there. It focuses on the relationship between the tribal people and the hydroelectric dam on the Reservation.  The 90 minute (3, 30 minute parts) film has interviews with tribal elders, archival newsreel footage, and current and historical photographs of the region. The film is lengthy and informational so is most effective used in small clips.

 

“Red Horse Owner’s Winter Count: the Oglala Sioux 1786-1968.” ed Joseph Karol. Booster Publishing Co; Martin, South Dakota, 1969.

Includes an introduction, reproductions of the winter count and an English translation. Limited edition printing.

 

The Wounded Bear Winter Count: 1815-1897. edited & translated by Stephen E. Feraca.

Includes the representation and an English translation of the Lakota notation for each year chronicled. The format makes it easy to see each symbol. There is also some brief background information on the winter count and the Lakota.

 

Lakota Winter Counts: an online exhibit. National Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html

*Graphics heavy(so only access with a fast connection) but a nice multimedia (text, sound, photos..) introduction to wintercounts of the Sioux

 

The Carnegie Winter                                                                    Thomas Red Owl Haukaas, M.D.  1995.

This is an example of the contemporary winter count Thomas Red Owl Haukaas, (Lakota/Creole) created for the Sicangu Lakota people on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. He chronicled the last 125 years. If you click on any image on the photo of the winter count it links to a close up of the image and the explanation.

 

Smith, Burton. The Politics of Allotment on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Published by the Salish and Kootenai College Press. © 1995. 31 pages

This is the piece of the article “The Politics of Allotment” written by Burton Smith, of the University of Alberta in Calgary that deals with the allotment of the Flathead Reservation. Burton’s original article was published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly, in July 1979, but the Flathead Culture Committee added a few photos, maps, and other small pieces for the edition that was reprinted by S&K College in 1995.

 

Parker, Dorothy. Singing an Indian Song: A Biography of D’Arcy McNickle. University of Nebraska Press: London, 1992.