Chapter 2 Suggested Readings, Weblinks, and Other Media

Readings

• Brown, Joseph Epes. Teaching Spirits: Understanding Native American Religious Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 

• DeLoria, Vine Jr. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. New York: Dell, 2003. 

• Gill, Sam. Native American Religions: An Introduction. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2005. 

• Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Paulette Molin. An Encyclopedia of Native American Religions. New York: Facts on File, 1992. 

• Kehoe, Alice Beck. The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization. Long Grove, IL: Waveland, 2006. 

• Neihardt, John G., and Black Elk. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 1961. 

• Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. 1988.

Weblinks

• American Academy of Religion—www.aarweb.org 

• Beliefnet—www.beliefnet.com 

• National Museum of the American Indian—www.nmai.si.edu 

• National Archives—www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/native-americans.html

Films

• In the Light of Reverence (2001) 72 min., Independent Television Service in association with Native American Public Telecommunications and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

• Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the Maya (1989) 60 min., www.berkeleymedia.com 

• Native-American Religions (2007) 27 min., www.insight-media.com  

• In Beauty I Walk: The Navajo Way to Harmony (2002) 28 min., www.berkeleymedia.com 

• Kinaalda: A Navajo Rite of Passage (2000) 56 min., Women Make Movies. 

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