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lists possible resources for your use. It is not intended to
be a definitive list, but includes examples compiled from several
sources, including the Smithsonian Institution; artist Charlene
Teters; Roberto Mucaro Borrero, Public Programs Coordinator,
American Museum of Natural History; and Peter Whiteley, Curator
in Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History.
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Web
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following web sites and their links were not produced by the
American Museum of Natural History, and do not necessarily reflect
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Oklahoma Chapter of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media
http://www.sosu.edu/slife/savages/
Commentary on team names and images associating sport with American Indian people.
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Indian Stereotypes
http://www.nativechild.com/stereotype.html
A look at the unrealistic but also negative portrayal of Native Americans in books. What does this portrayal do to Native American children who frequently encounter stereotyped images of Indians?
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Mascot Resolution
http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/resolution_print.html
United Native America initiative concerning the removal of American names and images as mascots. Highlights Native American cultural identity, religious significance to Native Americans and their negative impact.
More Results From: www.unitednativeamerica.com
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The Fighting Whites Official Homepage
http://www.cafepress.com/fightinwhite/
This is the homepage of the Fighting Whites Intramural Basketball Team from the University of Northern Colorado.
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PBS TeacherSource
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thismonth/nov01/index2.shtm
Native American Images: Accurate Portrait or Stereotype? This page introduces activities, which provide students with an opportunity to research contemporary portrayals of Native Americans.
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Charlene Teters
http://www.charleneteters.com
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Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
http://www.iccr.org
For thirty years the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) has been a leader of the corporate social responsibility movement.
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National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media
http://www.aimovement.org/ncrsm
The National Coalition on Racism in Sports and the Media exists to fight the powerful influence of major media who choose to promulgate messages of oppression. The impetus which formed NCRSM was the clear case of media coupling imagery with widely held misconceptions of American Indians in the form of sports team identities resulting in racial, cultural, and spiritual stereotyping.
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Native Americans: Stereotype vs. Reality
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/naster.htm
This web link provides an extensive publication listing on the subject of Native American stereotypes that teachers and students may find useful. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC compiled the listing.
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American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities
http://www.bookmasters.com/clarity/b0010.htm
This publication provides solid information to challenge myths and stereotypes. Excellent photographs are interspersed throughout the book.
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The
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Deloria, Philip, 1998, Playing Indian. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
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Pearce, Roy Harvey, 1988, Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
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From The History of Indian-White Relations, vol 4 of the Handbook of North American Indians, Wilcomb E. Washburn ed., 1988. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington DC. Especially:
- Berkhofer, Robert, "White Conceptions of Indians," pp. 522-47.
- Green, Rayna, "The Indian in Popular American Culture," pp. 587-606
- Marsden, Michael T. and Jack Nachbar, "The Indian in the Movies," pp. 607-616
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Spindel, Carol. Dancing At Halftime: Sports and the Controversy over American Indian Mascots, New York Press, ISBN 0-8147-8126-8.
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King, Richard C. and Charles Springwood, editors, forward by Vine Deloria, Team Spirits. Lincoln University Press.
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The
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Sturtevant, William, general editor, 1978--, The Handbook of North American Indians, 20 volumes. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC.
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Native American Newspapers
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Indian Country Today, a national daily
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Akwesasne Notes
http://www.ratical.org/AkwesasneNs.html
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Newspaper Articles
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"Bill Would Ban Indian Mascots" - Los Angeles Time, May 1st, 2002
http://www.latimes.com/la-000030853may01.story
SACRAMENTO -- Fed up from years of battling local school boards over what they consider an issue of basic civil rights, Native American groups are pushing legislation that would make California the first state in the nation to banish all Indian team mascots from public schools.
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"Fighting Whites Get Lots of Support" - Arizona Republic, March 15th, 2002
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0315fighting15-ON.html
DENVER - "A basketball team trying to make a statement about racist mascots with its nickname, the "Fighting Whites", is being flooded with emails from Caucasians who think its funny and others who say its racially insensitive."
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"The Coons are fighting no more" - AP, March 5th, 2002
http://www.msnbc.com/local/kxas/NBCKHJBYLXC.asp
FRISCO -- The Frisco school board approved changing the district's team name from the Fighting Coons to the Fighting Raccoons after some residents complained that "coon" is a racial slur against blacks.
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Films
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Whose Honor? American Indian Mascots in Sports.
Director: Jay Rosenstein. 1996. 60 min.
The story of Charlene Teters, a Spokane Indian whose campaign against Chief Illiniwek, the University of Illinois's beloved team mascot, turned a college town upside down and made many people rethink the larger issues of culture and identity.
To order the film:
Email: orders@newday.com
Web sites: www.newday.com
http://www.inwhosehonor.com
http://www.inwhosehonor.com/CHAR.HTML
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Imagining
Indians.
Victor Masayesva, Jr., 1992.
Available from Electronic Arts Intermix.
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University Presses and Publishers - Specialization in Native American Studies
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University of Nebraska Press
http://nebraskapress.unl.edu
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University of Oklahoma Press
http://www.ou.edu/oupress
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University of New Mexico Press
http://www.unmpress.com/
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University of Arizona Press
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/home.htm
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Syracuse University
http://www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu
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University of Washington Press
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/
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Clear Light Publishers
(Santa Fe - primarily focuses on Indians of New Mexico)
http://www.clearlightbooks.com
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Native American Studies Journals
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American Indian Quarterly
http://nebraskapress.unl.edu/aiq.html
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American Indian Culture and Research Journal
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/esp/aisc/aicrj.html
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Zitkala Sa Review
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Note:
The American Museum of Natural History library has most of
these journals. The New York Public Library Research Branch
(42nd and 5th) and the Huntington Free Library and Reading
Room in the Bronx (open by appointment only: phone 718-829-7770)
will also have all of the journals.
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University Native American Studies Departments
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University of Arizona
http://www.arizona.edu/
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UCLA
http://www.ucla.edu/
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UC Berkeley
http://www.berkeley.edu/
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Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/
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Oklahoma University
http://www.ou.edu/
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