Banks, Dennis and Richard Erdoes. Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
An autobiographical narrative that interweaves Bank’s life story with the traditions of American Indians and the founding of the American Indian Movement.
Churchill, Ward. Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America. Common Courage Press: Monroe, ME, 1994.
A critical examination of the appropriation and commodifcation of Native American culture in the contemporary American society. Churchill reviews films, literature, and current definitions of what it means to be an Indian.
-----.Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America, Common Courage Press: Monroe, ME, 1993.
A group of essays that concentrate on the recovery of Indian land, land-use, and threats to the land by means of industrial development. Churchill outlines the indigenous struggles over land rights in both the U.S. and Canada as well as examines the continued resistance movements amongst several different tribes.
_____ and Jim Vanderwall. Agents of Repression: the FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, South End Press: Boston, 1990.
Churchill and Vanderwall explore the FBI’s repressive activities used against the American Indian Movement and the Black Panther party during the 1960’s and 1970’s.
_____ and Jim Vander Wall. The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret War Against Domestic Dissent. South End Press: Boston, 1991.
The book documents the FBI’s role during the 1970’s suppressing left wing groups such as AIM, the Black Panthers, the Communist Part and many others. The chapter which focuses on the FBI’s intrusion into Indian country details the battles fought between the bureau and AIM during the late 1960’s and into the 1970’s.
Johnson, Troy R. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-Determination and the Rise of Indian Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
Details the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island by over two hundred Indians; examines the motives of the occupiers; analyzes the way the occupation motivated other areas of Indiactivism.
_____, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne, eds. American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
The book chronicles thirty years of American Indian activism (1967-1997) and pivots specifically around the occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians. The book is made up of several essays covering different perspectives of the occupation and its effect on Indian activism.
Matthiessen, Peter. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. New York: Penguin, 1992.
Means, Russell, and Marvin J. Wolf. Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means.New York: St. Martin's, 1995.
A life story of Means that focuses on his role in the American Indian Movement; special emphasis is placed on his involvement in the Indian takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington and the armed takeover of Wounded Knee.
Peltier, Leonard and Harvey Arden. Prison Writings: My Life is My Sundance. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
A collection of writings by the co-founder of the American Indian Movement, Peltier maps out the course his life from activism to prison. Peltier presents evidence for being innocent of the killing of two FBI agents at the siege of Wounded Knee in 1973.
Sayer, John William. Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trial:Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1997.
The book documents the ten month trial that took place following the violent end at Wounded Knee in 1973. Sayer focuses on the media’s impact on political dissenters as well as the trial’s impact on legal institutions and ultimately the trial’s impact on the American Indian Movement.
Smith, Paul Chaat. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. New York: New Press, 1996.
Analyzes the three years between the takeover of Alcatraz Island in the winter of 1969 to the siege of Wounded Knee in 1973.
Weyler, Rex. Blood of the Land: the Government and Corporate War Against First Nations. Philadelphia, Pa: Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1992.
Examines the five hundred years of contact between Europeans and Indians and the ongoing resistance by First Nations; focuses on the continued damage that the government and corporations are inflicting on Indian communities in North America; special emphasis on the conflicts between the American Indian Movement and the government.
