Please recommended a book for me to read about native-American culture and sociology and current history.?

Question

I can not find a nuetral and authoritative and comprehensive reference material for Native-Americans in the US. I want to know about what NA culture is like now, honestly, and without any axes to grind. Like local government, relations with the Federal government, population, religion, hierarchy, etc. Those with grudges need not respond. I am just interested in unbiased knowledge.

Answer 1

You will not find a single reference because Native Americans are comprised of many different Nations (500).   Just like there is no single book that will cover all information about all the European nations.

You can find bibliographies in "Wikipedia".  There are many and varied articles, this is a sample.

Native Americans in the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Amer...

Federally recognized tribes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nat...

Native American identity in the United States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Amer...

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WWW Virtual Library - American Indians

http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/

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Native Americans - Internet Resources.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.h...

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The Native American Rights Fund (NARF)

http://www.narf.org/cases/index.html#old...

Native American Society - American Indian Movement

http://thewildwest.org/interface/index.p...

Native Americans and Land

http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02right...

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Native Americans

http://www.nativeamericans.com/

American Indian Heritage Foundation

http://www.indians.org/

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White Earth Tribal & Community College

American Indian Learner Outcomes

http://www.wetcc.org/ailos/index.html

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• This is Canadian but the Tribes inhabit both counties.

This site shares a bit of the teachings of 5 different nations. The Four Direction teaching are from east to west. This site is like that.

The first one on the right side is a creation story from one nation. (very condensed) In this creation story.... man was created first. In other creation stories the woman was first.

The creation story is not taken literally, listen to the relationships, their importance and the roles.

The last one on the left talks of modern day issues of maintaining cultural practices.

The Four Directions teachings

http://www.fourdirectionsteachings.com/i...

Native Drum

http://nativedrums.ca/index.php/home/?tp...

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Indian Tribes of the United States.

Click on each state for a tribal map and listing of Native American tribes that have lived there.

http://www.native-languages.org/states.h...

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