Assigned Books

ASSIGNED BOOKS FOR EVERGREEN QUARTERLY PROGRAMS

Not including ancillary readings.
In rough order of reading assignments; some books may be read over two quarters.

Decolonizing Place Names

Spring 2024

Thrush, Coll, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place

Basso, Keith H., Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

Louis, Renee Pualani, Kanaka Hawai’i Cartography: Hula, Navigation, and Oratory

Program Reader including book chapters by N. Scott Momaday, Winona LaDuke, Mark Monmonier, Jeff-Antonelis Lapp, Ilan Pappe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Thomas F. Thornton, and William C. Meadows, articles by Mishuana Goeman, Patrick Wolfe, Natchee Blu Barnd, Julie Cruikshank, Reuben Rose-Redwood, Esther G. Belin, and Lawrence Berg, and agency guidelines of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names and Washington State Committee on Geographic Names.

Introduction to Environmental Studies: Oceans, Climate Change, and Northwest Coastal Tribes
with Gerardo Chin-Leo

Fall 2023

Trujillo, Alan & Thurman, Harold. Essentials of Oceanography.

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way

Parker, Alan & Grossman, Zoltán, eds. Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis

Berger, David. Razor Clams: Buried Treasure of the Pacific Northwest

Mapes,, Lynda V. Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home

Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Reclaiming the Commons: Black, White, and Indigenous Peoples Reconstructing Community
with Prita Lal

Spring 2023

Bollier, David, Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons

Wilkinson, Charles, Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way

White, Monica, Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

Nembhard, Jessica Gordon, Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

Routledge, Paul, Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest 

Coté, Charlotte, A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast

Taking Back Empire: Political Economy, Militarism, and Decolonial Movements  
with Savvina Chowdhury

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

Vine, David. The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State.

Ross, Clifton & Rein, Marcy, eds. Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements.

Winter 2023

Bacevich, Andrew, After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed  

LaDuke, Winona, To Be a Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers

Robinson, William, Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic

Aguon, Julian, No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

Olympia’s Hidden Histories self-guided walking tours (by students) on Port of Olympia connections to global trade and shipping, militarization, and fossil fuels

American Frontiers: Homelands and Borderlands
with Kristina Ackley

Fall 2021

Limerick, Patricia. Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West 

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 

Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America 

Coté, Charlotte. Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah & Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions

Stephen, Lynn. Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon 

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

Piatote, Beth. The Beadworkers

Winter 2022

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way

Conceptualizing Place students. Removing Barriers: Restoring Salmon Watersheds through Tribal Alliances [online]

Jacob, Michelle. Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing  

Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943

Basso, Keith H. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

Álvarez, Noé. Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon through America’s Stolen Lands

Olympia’s Hidden Histories self-guided walking tours (by students) on the displacement of Indigenous (Squaxin), Chinese immigrant, and working-class communities, and salmon and oysters, from downtown Olympia.

Conceptualizing Place: Pacific Northwest Native Art and Geographies
with Alex McCarty

Fall 2020

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way

King, Thomas. The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

Wright, Robin K. & Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, eds. In the Spirit of the Ancestors: Contemporary Northwest Coast Art at the Burke Museum

Grossman, Zoltán & Alan Parker, eds. Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis

Winter 2021

Mapes, Lynda. Elwha: A River Reborn

Blanchard, Rebecca & Nancy Davenport, eds. Contemporary Coast Salish Art

McMaster, Gerald, ed. Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-19th-Century Northwest Coast

Removing Barriers: Restoring Salmon Watersheds through Tribal Alliances book (by students)

American Frontiers: Homelands and Borderlands
with María Isabel Morales

Spring 2020

Limerick, Patricia, Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West 

Jacob, Michelle, Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing      

Anzaldúa, Gloria, Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza 

Gonzalez, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America 

Herrera, Yuri, Signs Preceding the End of the World 

Schulze, Jeffrey, Are We Not Foreigners Here?: Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 

Stephen, Lynn, Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon 

Silko, Leslie Marmon, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

Catastrophe: Community Resilience in the Face of Disaster
with Suree Towfighnia

Winter 2020

Solnit, Rebecca, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Klein, Naomi, The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

David, Emmanuel, and Elaine Enarson, The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race, and Class Matter in an American Disaster

Button, Gregory, & Mark Schuller, eds., Contextualizing Disaster

A People’s Geography of American Empire

Fall 2018

Limerick, Patricia, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

Drinnon, Richard, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building.

Vine, David, Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World.

Silko, Leslie Marmon, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit.

Enloe, Cynthia, Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War.

Jamail, Dahr, Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Winter 2019

Wilkinson, Charles, Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way. 

Lutz, Catherine, ed., The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against U.S. Military Posts.

Bryan, Joe, & Wood, Denis, Weaponizing Maps: Indigenous Peoples and Counterinsurgency in the Americas.

McCoy, Alfred, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power. 

Routledge, Paul. Space Invaders: Radical Geographies of Protest.

Basewatch website (by students)

Aotearoa New Zealand: Native Decolonization in the Pacific Rim 
with Kristina Ackley

Fall-Winter 2017

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Franks Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

King, Thomas. The Inconvenient Indian.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research & Indigenous Peoples.

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians : Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.

Ihimaera, Witi. The Whale Rider.

Reading, Nigel, and Gary Wyatt. Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat.

Spring 2018 (class trip to Aotearoa New Zealand)

Alfred, Taiaiake, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto.

Gooyear-Ka’ōpua, Noelani and Okaoka Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika’ala, eds. A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty.

Williams, Melissa, Panguru and the City: Kāinga Tahi, Kāinga Rua

Grace, Patricia, Small Holes in the Silence

Catastrophe: Community Resilience in the Face of Disaster
with Shangrila Joshi & Kristina Ackley

Spring 2017

Klein, Naomi, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Solnit, Rebecca, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Butler, Octavia, Parable of the Sower

Button, Gregory, & Mark Schuller, eds., Contextualizing Disaster

Paul, Elsie, & Paige Raibmon, Written as I Remember It: Teachings (ʔəms taʔaw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

Commodities, Conflict, and Cooperation
with Savvina Chowdhury & Sarah Williams

Fall 2016

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Franks Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

Wolf, Eric. Europe and the People Without History.

Allen, Theodore W. & Jeffrey B. Perry. The Invention of the White Race, Volume 2: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America.

Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

Winter 2017

Klein, Naomi, This Changes Everything Capitalism vs. the Climate

Hahnel, Robin, Of the People, by the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy.

Dixon, Chris. Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements)

LaDuke, Winona. Chronicles: Stories from the Front Lines in Battles for Environmental Justice.

Commodities, Conflict and Cooperation website (by students)

Resource Rebels: Environmental Justice Movements Building Hope
with Karen Gaul

Fall 2015

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Frank’s Landing

Gedicks, Al, Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations

Bullard, Robert, ed., The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution

Boyd, Andrew, and Dave Aswald Mitchell, Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution

LaDuke, Winona, Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming

Grossman, Zoltán, and Alan Parker, Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis

Winter 2016

Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Rose, Fred. Coalitions Across the Class Divide

Gedicks, Al, “Transnational Mining Corporations, the Environment, & Indigenous Communities”

Holmes, Seth. Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the U.S.

Dietrich, William. The Final Forest: Big Trees, Forks, and the Pacific

Shiva, Vandana, Making Peace with the Earth

Fossil Fuel Connections website (by students)

Economic Options for Grays Harbor report (by students)

Native Decolonization in the Pacific Rim: From the Northwest to New Zealand
with Kristina Ackley

Fall 2014

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Franks Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

King, Thomas. The Inconvenient Indian .

LaDuke, Winona. Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming  

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians : Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.

Ihimaera, Witi. The Whale Rider

Reading, Nigel, and Gary Wyatt. Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat .

Harris, Aroha. Hikoi: 40 Years of Maori Protest.

Kino-nda-niimi Collective, ed. The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement

Winter 2015

Metge, Joan. Tuamaka: The Challenge of Difference in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research & Indigenous Peoples. 

Walker, Ranginui, Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou / Struggle Without End

Spring 2015 (Trip to Aotearoa/New Zealand)

Alfred, Taiaiake, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, An Indigenous People’s History of the United States

Simpson, Leanne (ed.), Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations

Williams, Melissa, Panguru and the City

Grace, Patricia, Small Holes in the Silence

Class Trip and Student Projects report (by students)

American Frontiers, Homelands, and Empire
with Kristina Ackley

Fall 2013

Wilkinson, Charles, Messages from Frank’s Landing: a Story of Salmon, Treaties, and  the Indian Way”

Limerick, Patricia, Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West*

Deloria, Philip, Playing Indian*

Saunt, Claudio, Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family

Johnson, Pauline, The Moccasin Maker*

Rothman, Hal, Devil’s Bargain: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West*

Silko, Leslie Marmon, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit*

Winter 2014

King, Thomas, The Inconvenient Indian  

Suarez, Ray, Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation*

Ford, Jamie, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet  

Drinnon, Richard, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building*

Erdrich, Heid E., National Monuments

Stephen, Lynn,  Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon*

Sen, Rinku, and Fekkak Mamdouh. The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization  

Spring 2014

Condensed version of program with selected readings above ( * )

Making Effective Change: Social Movement Organizing and Activism
with Lin Nelson and Anthony Zaragoza

Fall 2012

Reed, TV, The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

RansbyBarbara, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

Sen, Rinku & Fekkak Mamdouh The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization

JamailDahr, Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bullard, Robert, ed., The Quest for Environmental Justice

Winter 2013

Sen, Rinku. Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy

Boyd, Andrew, & Dave Oswald Mitchell, eds.Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution

Corburn, Jason, Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health

Armstrong , Jeannette. Whispering in Shadows

Baptist & Rehmann, Pedagogy of the Poor

Social Movements Directory (by students)

Media Options Directory (by students)

Blood and Borders : Tradition and Transformation in Central Europe
with Pat Krafcik, Rob Smurr, & Marta Botikova

Fall 2011

Johnson, Lonnie. Central Europe.

Magocsi, Paul Robert. Historical Atlas of Central Europe.

Mazower, Mark. The Balkans.

Plakans, Andrejs. Concise History of the Baltic States.

AndricIvo. The Bridge on the Drina.

Hutchinson, John & Anthony Smith, eds. Nationalism.

Hasek, Jaroslav. The Good Soldier Svejk.

Crow, David  & John Kolsti, eds.The Gypsies of Eastern Europe.

Kertesz, Imre Fateless.

Rampolla, Mary Lynn.  A Pocket Guide to Writing in History.

Winter 2012

Konwicki, Tadeusz, The Polish Complex

Vaclav Havel, et al. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State             

Porter, Anna, The Ghosts of Europe                                                 

George, Emery, ed. Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology

Harper, Krista, Wild Capitalism: Environmental Activists and Post-Socialist Ecology in Hungary                  

Bochinarz, Zbigniew, ed. The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe

Drakulic, Slavenka. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

Ost, David. The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe


A People’s Geography of American Empire
with Larry Mosqueda

Spring 2011

Limerick, Patricia. Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

Walker, Alice. Overcoming SpeechlessnessA Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

Drinnon, Richard. Facing WestThe Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building

Foster, John B.& Robert McChesney. Pox AmericanaExposing the American Empire

Lutz, Catherine, ed. The Bases of EmpireThe Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts

Bricmont, Jean. Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War

Enloe, Cynthia. Nimo’s War, Emma’s War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

Jamail, Dahr. Will to ResistSoldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan


Native Decolonization in the Pacific Rim
with Kristina Ackley

Fall 2010

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

Tauli-Corpuz, Victoria and Jerry Mander, eds. Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization.

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.

King, Thomas. The Truth about Stories.

Trask, Haunani-Kay. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i.

Reading, Nigel, and Gary Wyatt. Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat.

Durie, Mason. Nga Tai Matatu: Tides of Maori Endurance.

Winter 2011 (Trip to Aotearoa/New Zealand)

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research & Indigenous Peoples.

Walker, Ranginui. Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou — Struggle Without End

Grace, Patricia. Potiki (excerpts)

McCarthy, Conal. Exhibiting Maori (excerpt)

Class Trip and Student Projects report (by students)


American Frontiers: Homelands and Empire
with Kristina Ackley

Fall 2009

Erdrich, Louise. Tracks.

Limerick, Patricia. Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

Meeks, Eric V. Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona.

Saunt, Claudio. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family.

Thrush, Coll. Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place.

Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush.

Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building.

Rothman, Hal. Devil’s Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West.

Crosthwaite, Luis Humberto. Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from the US/Mexico Border.

Winter 2010

LaDuke, Winona. Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming

Cattelino, Jessica R. High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty.

Alfred, Taiaiake. Peace, Power and Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto.

Nevins, Joseph. Dying to LiveA Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid.

Li, Judith L. To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West.

Spring 2010

Armstrong, Jeannette. Whispering in Shadows: A Novel

Wildcat, Daniel R. Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge

Sen, Rinku, and Fekkak Mamdouh. The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization

Silko, Leslie Marmon, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today


Food, Place and Culture
with Martha Rosemeyer

Spring 2009

Anderson, E.N. Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture.

Deur, D. and N. J. Turner. Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America.

Roche, J. and M. McHutchison (Eds). First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North PacificRim.

Wilkinson, C. F.. Messages from Franks Landing: Salmon, Treaties and the Indian Way.

Pojar, J. and A. MacKinnon. Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

Nabhan, G.P. (Ed.) Renewing America’s Food Traditions.

Patel, R.. Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System.


Conceptualizing Native Place
with Lara Evans

Fall 2008

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing.

Wood, Denis. The Power of Maps.

Berger, Martin. Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture.

Warhus, Mark. Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land.

Deloria, Philip. Playing Indian.

LaDukeWinona. Recovering the SacredThe Power of Naming and Claiming.

Nottage, James H. (Ed.). Diversity and Dialogue: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art.

National Museum of the American Indian. Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination.

Wilkinson, Charles F. Messages from Franks Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

Armstrong, Jeanette. Whispering in Shadows: A Novel.

Waldman, Carl. Atlas of the North American Indians

Winter 2009

Aberley, Doug (Ed.). Boundaries of HomeMapping for Local Empowerment

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research & Indigenous Peoples

Hoelscher, Steven D. Picturing Indians

Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute. Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations

Tshinhnahjinnie, Hulleah, and Veronica Passalacqua,(Eds).. Our People, Our Land, Our Images

Blanchard, Rebecca, and Nancy Davenport (Eds.) Contemporary Coast Salish Art

Basso, Keith H. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

Nisqually watershed podcasts (by students)

Colonialism and Decolonization
with Zahid Shariff

Spring 2008

Tauli-Corpuz, V., Mander, J. (Eds.). Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization..

Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism.

Prashad, Vijay. The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World.

Bricmont, Jean. Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War.

Dawson, Ashley, Schueller, M.J. (Eds.). Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism.


Native Decolonization in the Pacific Rim
with Frances Rains (Fall)

Fall 2007

Wray, Jacilee (Ed.). Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula : Who We Are .

Harmon, Alexandra. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound.

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Franks Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

Muckle, Robert J. First Nations of British Columbia:An Anthropological Survey.

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians :Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.

Harris, Cole. Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance & Reserves in British Columbia.

George, Chief Earl Maquinna. Living on the Edge: Nuu-Chah-Nulth History from an Ahousaht Chief’s Perspective.

Armstrong, Jeannette. Whispering in Shadows: A Novel

Winter 2008

Kawagley, Angayuqaq Oscar. A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit.

Alfred, Taiaiake. Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom.

Roche, Judith, and Meg McHutchison (Eds.) First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim.

Trask, Haunani-Kay. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii.

Gedicks, Al. Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining & Oil Corporations.

Reading, Nigel, and Gary Wyatt. Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat.

Durie, Mason Nga Tai Matatu: Tides of Maori Endurance.

Sykes, Roberta. Murawina: An Authentic Aboriginal Message.

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research & Indigenous Peoples.


A People’s Geography of American Empire
with Larry Mosqueda

Spring 2007

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

Fixico, Donald L. The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources

Foster, John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney, eds. Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire

Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian Hating and Empire Building

Kipp, Woody. Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist

Enloe, Cynthia. Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives

Klare, Michael T. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict

Loveman, Brian (Ed.) Strategy for Empire: U.S. Regional Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era

Johnson, Chalmers. The Sorrows of Empire :Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

Jensen, Robert. Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity.


Political Economy and Social Movements
with Pete Bohmer and Anthony Zaragoza

 Fall 2006

Kaufman, Cynthia, Ideas for Action

Bowles, Sam, Richard Edwards, Frank Roosevelt, Understanding Capitalism

Dollars & Sense, Real World Macro, 23rd ed

Nash, Gary, Red, White and Black

Smith, A., Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

Allen, Theodore, Class Struggle and the Origins of Racial Slavery

Roediger, David, Colored White, Transcending the Racial Past

Martinez, Elizabeth, De Colores Means All of Us

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto.

Marx, Karl, Wage, Labor and Capital, and Value, Price and Profit

Murolo, Priscilla & A.B. Chitty, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

Ransby, Barbara, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

hooks, bell, Feminist Theory: from Margin to Center

Schlosser, Eric , Fast Food Nation

Rose, Fred, Coalitions Across the Class Divide

Winter 2007

Lichtenstein, Nelson, ed. Wal-Mart, The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism,

Juhasz, Antonia. The Bush Agenda, Invading the World, One Economy at a Time

Aguilar, Delia, and Anna Lacsamana. Women & Globalization

Benjamin, Medea & Jodie Evan, eds. Stop the Next War Now

Hernandez, Daisy & Bushra Rehman, eds. Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism

Prashad, Vijay. Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting

Hahnel, Robin. Economic Justice and Democracy, From Competition to Cooperation

Roy, Arundhati. Power Politics

Gedicks, Al, Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations

Gott, Richard. Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution


Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations
Project of the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute; Graduate research project with Alan Parker

Project report, Article


Anti-Indian Movements: Origins, Images, & Responses
with Kristina Ackley

Spring 2006

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya’s Earth.

Wilkinson, Charles F. Messages from Frank’s Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

Montana Human Rights Network. Drumming up Resentment: the anti-Indian Movement in Montana.

Whaley, Rick and Walter Bresette. Walleye Warriors: The Chippewa Treaty Rights Story.

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians : Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.

LaDuke, Winona. All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life.

Deloria, Jr., Vine and David E. Wilkins. Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations.

Alfred, Taiaiake. Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action And Freedom.

Kallen, Stuart A. Indian Gaming (At Issue Series).


American Frontiers: Critical Histories
with Kristina Ackley and Michael Pfeifer

Fall 2005 

Limerick, Patricia. Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

Nash, Gary B. Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815.

Deloria, Philip. Playing Indian.

Erdrich, Louise. Tracks.

Wallace, Anthony F.C. The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians.

Buchanan, Thomas C. Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World.

Saunt, Claudio. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family.

Winter 2006

Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush .

Welch, James. Fools Crow

Harmon, Alexandra. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound

Sone, Monica Itoi. Nisei Daughter

Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building

Rothman, Hal K. Devil’s Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West

Ruiz, Vicky L. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

Waldman, Carl. Atlas of the North American Indian

Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings