Module 1 Resources

The resource that I found most helpful and insightful in module 1 is Anton Truer's Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask.  As the title implies it sets out to answer all of the possible questions about Native Americans and also to give a first hand perspective on Native American culture.  The notion of gaining answer from the book are answer when Truer writes in the introduction, "Above all, I want this work to provide a place to get answers."(Truer, 2012)  Truer's book give great insight and really does a great job in answering many of the general questions someone would have about Native Americans.  The book also does a great job in setting the record straight for somethings that many outsiders believe to be fact which in reality aren't.  One of the biggest things that I learned from Truer's book was the use of words like nation, band, and tribe weren't originally used within the Native American communities and were brought upon by the Europeans in their efforts to colonize Indians. (Truer, 2012)

Aside from the readings on Truer, one of the online resources I found that was very insightful was The American Philosophical Society: Native American Images Project.  The website provides a brief overview of different images and findings from Native American history and, is used as a tool to guide the viewer to visit The American Philosophical Society in order to get more in depth knowledge of the items.  This particular resource as well as the readings seems to be put into this course over other resources because they give first hand personal accounts of Native Americans and they also don't set out to show one side of the story.  Each piece of Native American history plays a part in the grand scheme of things and that includes the bad just as much as it does the good.  So far from both the readings and the resources in this module, my outlook on what is considered general knowledge about Native Americans doesn't seem to always hold true to first hand accounts and the history of Native Americans.



Native American Images Project. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://amphilsoc.org/exhibit/natamimages

Truer, A. (2012). Everything you wanted to know about indians but were afraid to ask. Saint Paul, MN: Borealis Books.