Please note:  We have linked to the appropriate pages on Amazon.com where you can often "look inside" these books.  UK residents should be able to find most if not all of these books on Amazon.co.uk as well as on other good online bookstores.  We don't receive commission on sales and encourage you to shop around for the best deals.  Good second hand copies of many of these books are often available on Amazon and on Alibris.  It should be possible to borrow most if not all of these books via your local library.

"Grave Injustice" by Kathleen S. Fine-Dare.  An excellent, readable and balanced introduction to the American Indian repatriation movement and NAGPRA.  Published 2002 by University of Nebraska Press (paperback).

"Repatriation Reader" edited by Devon A Mihesuah.  Asks the question "who owns American Indian remains?  Case studies include Kennewick Man and Zuni Ahayu:da. Published 2000 by University of Nebraska Press (paperback).

"Where the Lightning Strikes" by Peter Nabokov.  An evocation of the lives of sixteen American Indian sacred places.  Published 2006 by Viking (hardback).

"Who Owns Native Culture?" by Michael F Brown.  An accessible introduction to questions of cultural ownership, group privacy, intellectual property and the recovery of indigenous identities.  Published 2003 by Harvard University Press (hardback).

"American Indians and National Parks" by Robert H Keller and Michael F Turek.  Extensively researched resource for anyone concerned with preserving both cultural and natural resources.  Published 1998 by University of Arizona Press (paperback).

"Recovering the Sacred" by Winona LaDuke.  The theft of all things indigenous and the ongoing resistance.  Published 2005 by South End Press 

"Navajo Sacred Places" by Klara Bonsack Kelley and Harris Francis.  Addresses specific areas of current concern to the Navajo people.  Published 1994 by Indiana University Press (paperback).

"Give Me My Father's Body" by Kenn Harper.  The life of Minik, the "New York Eskimo", Robert Peary's "live ethnographic specimen" (see photograph on our homepage).  Published 2000 by Profile Books Ltd. (UK) & Steerforth Press (USA) (paperback).

"Bones of Contention - Native American Archaeology" - (link goes to a site selling the DVD in the USA and includes a preview clip). This BBC production from 1995 focuses on the tensions between scientists, historians, and museum curators and Native American groups, as the bones take on a central role in a war of alternate perspectives. In examining this debate, the program provides an excellent survey of Native American archaeology in the U.S.

We'll be expanding this list and adding further books and DVDs during 2010.