Hey guys!
So in today's video, I wanted to talk a little bit more about some of the books that I have
been inspired to read lately.
After the woman's march on DC earlier in January I came across the perspective of a young Native
American woman who went to the march in DC with some of her people, and she described
her experience there, and how it wasn't as great as it seemed most white women were saying.
And basically how her and her people were treated as objects, and how they had pictures
taken of them or with them, but then the people wouldn't listen to the issues that they were
there to protest or support.
And it just reminded me even more that it's our own responsibility to educate ourselves
about the oppression and marginalization against people of color.
It's not their job to educate us, and so inspired by this young woman's experience, and my general
goal to read more diversely, it kind of occurred to me that I haven't really been focusing
very much on the immense mistreatment of Native Americans, which you know, as a person who
lives in America, it's something that is a huge part of my country's history.
And I think sometimes it doesn't quite get as much attention as other very worthy issues
do, such as Black history.
So I want to include more Native American literature in my reading, in the same way
that I've been trying to include more Black literature in my reading, and other diverse
groups.
I do live nearby a reservation, and yet I still feel very under-educated about the history
of local tribes and other American tribes.
So I went online to just research Native American authors, because I felt that there had to
be more than Sherman Alexie and Louise Erdrich, and Joseph Boyden.
So I just kind of wanted to share with you some of the books that I found that I've added
to my to-read list, that I'm hoping to get to.
Some of them at least this year, if not the coming years, and just on-going continuously.
The first one is Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko.
Ceremony is about the Pueblos.
And according to to Penguin, who just released a new edition of it, it was written almost
40 years ago.
And Leslie Marmon Silko is one of the first key figures in the First Wave of what some
people call the Native American Renaissance.
Another one that I've added is House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday.
This book actually won a Pulitzer prize, and it's about the struggle of living in two worlds,
basically the traditional Native American World, and the harsh 20th century American
World.
Another one is Fools' Crow by James Welch, which is set in Montana shortly after the
Civil War.
James Welch is a Blackfeet Author and another key member in the Native American Renaissance.
Next is Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo.
Joy Harjo is a poet, and this book is actually a memoir.
Harjo was born in Oklahoma, which was the ending place of the Trail of Tears.
So you just get to learn about her life growing up and her path to becoming a poet.
Next is From the Deep Woods to Civilization, by Charles Alexander Eastman.
This is also a memoir, and it covers a part of his life where he was the only doctor available
at the massacre at Wounded Knee.
Another one I've picked out is called Lakota Woman, by Mary Crow Dog.
This is another memoir, about how she grew up in a one room cabin, with no running water
or electricity, on a reservation in South Dakota.
So it follows her typical upbringing, and the rest of her life's path.
Another one that I picked out is called Solar Storms, and that's by Linda Hogan.
It tells the story of Angela Jenson, a Native American girl dealing with the foster system.
And this book has a very similar story to what's happening right now with the Dakota
Access Pipeline.
Because this is set in Oklahoma where an entrepreneur wants to build a hyrdoelectric dam.
And the project would result in sacred land being ruined and abandoned.
According to the author's Goodreads profile, she's the current Chickasaw Nation's writer
in residence and another one is another book by Joy Harjo, and that is Reinventing the
Enemy's Language, Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America.
So this is more in an anthology, edited by Joy Harjo, and it celebrates the experiences
of Native American women.
And one well known Native American woman is Zitkala-Sa, and I had already added a book
of writings by her, but I discovered that there was another edition that included more.
This one is American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings, which is a Penguin Classics
edition.
Zitkala-Sa was raised on the Sioux reservation, and was educated at boarding schools that
forced assimilation.
So a lot of her writing and stories deal with that struggle.
Another book is the autobiography of Wilma Mankiller, and I initially found out about
her by reading Gloria Steinem's recent memoir, and Wilma Mankiller was the chief of the Cherokee
nation, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
So she recounts her own history, and the history of the Cherokees.
And the last book is actually a recommendation from the young woman on Twitter who partially
as a joke recommended it to one of the Kardashians who was looking for a book to read.
I took the recommendation for anyone who is interested, and that is An Indigenous People's
History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz.
The book received the American Book Award in 2015, and is considered the first history
of the United States from the perspective of Indigenous peoples.
So those are most of the books that I added in my recent to-read adding spree.
And I really hope that gain a lot from it, and that I just come to a better understanding
of the very complex history of Native Americans and white people in America.
If you have any other recommendations, or if there's anything that I'm obviously missing,
than definitely let me know.
If you have read any of these and liked them, then let me know that as well.
I just kind of wanted to share this with you guys as part of my process and goal to read
more diversely.
And my making this video I'm of course not trying to say that Native American struggles
are a more important issue than like, Black history or immigration rights, and all of
that, but it's definitely one that is often overlooked more than any other racial issue
in America.
So as always, thank you guys for watching, and I will see ya next time.
Bye!
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