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BOOKS WE RECOMMEND
Many people have asked for(or more accurately demanded) a list of good books on Native Spirituality. We can't think of any legitimate books that reveal any legitimate indigenous spiritual knowledge. Indigenous spiritual knowledge isn't transmitted by books. Like gramma says, a good rule of tumb to follow is:
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"Those who know, don't tell. Those who tell, don't know."
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Now that's more "Native Wisdom" than you'll ever get in any book!
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We can recommend some books that you need to read in order to understand why spiritual appropriation is so damaging to indigenous communities. Please don't purchase these books from Amazon dot com - they censor indigenous criticism of their twinkie books. You can speak up against censorship by signing an ONLINE PETITION to boycott Amazon for its racist double standard. Also, please support small, locally owned bookstores that make it their policy not to carry Nuage books that appropriate Native Spirituality.
Book and Journal List
Books
Tinker, George E., Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation Minneapolis, Fortess Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8006-3681-3 E98R3T562004
Journals
Aldred, Lisa
"Plastic Shamans and Astroturf Sun Dances: New Age Commercialization of Native American Spirituality
" in American Indian Quarterly Vol. 24, No. 3 (Summer, 2000), pp. 329-352
URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0095-182X%28200022%2924%3A3%3C329%3APSAASD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth "How Scholarship Defames the Native Voice... and Why"
in Wicazo Sa Review Vol. 15, No. 2, Native American Literature on the Edge of a New Century (Autumn, 2000), pp. 79-92 URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0749-6427%28200023%2915%3A2%3C79%3AHSDTNV%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth "Who Gets to Tell the Stories?
" in Wicazo Sa Review Vol. 9, No. 1, Native American Literature on the Edge of a New Century (Spring, 1993), pp. 60-64 URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0749-6427%28199321%299%3A1%3C60%3AWGTTTS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
Historical Revisionism
Stripes, James D. "The Problem(s) of (Anishinaabe) History in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich: Voices and Contexts" in Wicazo Sa Review Vol. 7, No. 2 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 26-33 URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0749-6427%28199123%297%3A2%3C26%3ATPO%28HI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M
Malcolm Chapman. The Celts: Construction of a Myth. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Why I Can�t Read Wallace Stagner and Other Essays A Tribal Voice (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1996).
Philip G. Davis The Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality Dallas: Spence Publishing Co., 1998 . ISBN 0-9653208-9-8
Criticism of Neopaganism
Philip Deloria, Playing Indian (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger (London: Routeledge, 1995)
Tom Greaves, ed Intellectual Property Rights for Indigenous Peoples: A Sourcebook (Oklahoma City: Society for Applied Anthropology, 1994).
Rayna Green, "The Tribe Called Wannabee," Folklore99 (1988):30-35.
Geary Hobson 1978 "The rise of white shaman as a new version of cultural imperialism." The Remembered Earth, edited by Geary Hobson, (Albuquerque: Red Earth Press 1978).
Peter Kratz Die G�tter des New Age Berlin:
Elefanten Press, 1994)
Captialism and the New Age
Kimberly J. Lau New Age Capitalism: Making Money East of Eden (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
Misrepresentation of Aztec Culture
Vento, Arnold Carlos. "Aztec Myths and Cosmology: Historical-Religious Misinterpretation and Bias" in Wicazo Sa Review Vol 11, no. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 1-23 URL: : http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0749-6427%28199521%2911%3A1%3C1%3AAMACHM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7
Misrepresentation of Maya Culture
Montejo,Victor D. "BECOMING MAYA? APPROPRIATION OF THE WHITE SHAMAN" Spring, 1999, Native Americas Journal. http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu/spr99pe.html
Robert Sitler, "The 2012 Phenomenon: New Age Appropriation of an Ancient Mayan Calendar" Nova Religio, Vol. 9, Issue 3 (www.ucpress.edu/journals/nr/).
Sharon O'Brien, "A Legal Analysis of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act", in Handbook of American Indian Religious Freedom, ed. Christopher Vecsey, (New York: Crossroad, 1991).
Deborah Root Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, and the Commodification of Difference Westview Press 1996.
Wendy Rose, "The Great Pretenders: Further Reflections on Whiteshamanism." The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, and Resistance, edited by Annette Jaimes, (Boston: South End Press, 1992).
Mikael Rothsteined New Age Religion and Globalization (Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 2001).
Occult Roots of the New Age
Dusty Sklar Gods and Beasts: The Nazis and the Occult (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1977).
Andrea Smith, Chapter 6 "Spiritual Appropriation as Sexual Violence" in Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide, (Cambridge: South End Press, 2005).
Haunani-Kay Trask, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii (Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1993).
David Treur Native American Fiction: A Users manual (Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006).
Cultural Appropriation
Shanley, Kathryn W."The Indians America Loves to Love and Read: American Indian Identity and Cultural Appropriation" in American Indian Quarterly Vol. 21, No. 4 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 675-702 URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0095-182X%28199723%2921%3A4%3C675%3ATIALTL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-2
Laurie Anne Whitt, "Cultural Imperialism and the Marketing of Native America," in Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About American Indians, ed. Devon Mihesuah (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998).
Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao. Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation,
Rutgers University Press).
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