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Native American history and resistance Peoples history An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
            An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
This book is a history of the United States from the factual events and writings of indigenous people who lived here and were swept aside as Europeans pushed across the country in full belief of their manifest destiny to occupy it. It is not the history of our high school. It is “a history of settler colonialism—the founding of a state based on the ideology of white supremacy, the widespread practice of African slavery, and a policy of genocide and land theft.” This book provides for us ( those of European descent) a window into a history of indigenous peoples – our neighbors – through events that we likely were not taught    

Our Future    Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline,
                and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance: Nick Estes
Using the Standing Rock resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (2016) the author Nick Estes unfolds the recent events of state supported White Nationalism in the context of the long history of genocidal wars and colonial institutions. This is a book of current “Indigenous protesters fighting to protect their ancestral land and uphold their historic values of clean land and water for all humans.” The wrongs of our prior generations continue today. The statement “Our History is the Future” can be a call for all peoples to create a just future for the people who live today.  If the call is not heard the past continues to be repeated with all its injustice.

God is Red
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion: Vine Deloria Jr. First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating three decades in publication with a special 30th-anniversary edition, this classic work reminds us to learn "that we are a part of nature, not a transcendent species with no responsibilities to the natural world." It is time again to listen to Vine Deloria Jr.'s powerful voice, telling us about religious life that is independent of Christianity and that reveres the interconnectedness of all living things.
    
Local Lenape & Quaker History Lenape CountryLenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn (Early American Studies): Jean R. Soderlund This book provides the history of the Lenape people from the arrival of Europeans to the arrival of Penn. It provides a history of the Lenape people as they interfaced with and developed a mutual relationship with the Dutch, Swedish and Finish traders 50 years before Penn. A relationship not based on taking of land but on trading. This relationship radically changed with the arrival of Penn. The Lenape lived in the area that we now live. Some Lenape people continue to live among us. Their history has not been told and in many cases purposefully destroyed. This book provides a glimpse into a portion of that history.
As they were led
As They Were Led: Quakerly Steps and Missteps Toward Native Justice: 1795-1940: Martha Claire Catlin and Patricia R. Powers Martha Claire Catlin has written a book from the documented interactions of Baltimore Yearly Meeting and indigenous communities form 1795-1940. It is a clear-eyed book looking at both the good and the missteps that occurred in those interactions. It acknowledges that the goal of the Yearly Meeting to seek justice for native nations and native individuals was not and has not been achieved. It is hoped that a useful knowledge of the past will foster empowerment towards this goal in the future.

This Crooked AffairThis Very Ground, This Crooked Affair: John Ruth This Very Ground, This Crooked Affair connects the centuries-old history of the author's Pennsylvania Mennonite homestead with that of the land's indigenous Lenape inhabitants, interweaving documented Pennsylvania history with the national pursuit of a Doctrine of Discovery-and the story of Mennonites who had themselves fled suffering and landlessness with the fates of Native Americans continent-wide.

Indians of PAIndians in Pennsylvania: Paul A. W. Wallace This classic study of the history of Pennsylvania’s Indians, from the time of the European contact forward, was originally published in 1961. This second edition has been revised and updated to incorporate more modern content while keeping Wallace’s classic voice and unique perspective. This accessible work explores the primary groups of Indian peoples most important to Pennsylvania’s history—its most prevalent, primarily the Delaware or Lenni Lenape and the Susquehannock people, and the outside groups that had the largest impact upon Pennsylvania, primarily the neighboring Iroquois and refugee groups such as the Shawnee. The volume explores customs, governance, belief systems, conflict, migration, and policy, among many other topics. Sympathetic and balanced, this book has long been considered one of the best books on the Indian peoples of Pennsylvania.
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