Resistance from Aristotle to Star Wars

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.04.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Intro/rationale
  2. Demographics
  3. Content
  4. Appendix
  5. Bibliography
  6. Notes

Modern Indigenous American Protests, from American Indian Movement to the Dakota Access Pipeline

Marc Hillis

Published September 2026

Tools for this Unit:

Bibliography

Blackhawk, Ned (2023).  The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.  Yale University Press.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne (2019).  An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: For Young People. Beacon Press.

Means, Russell (1995).  Where White Men Fear to Tread.  St. Martin’s Griffin.

The Red Nation (2021). The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth. Red Media.

Rosier, Paul C., (2026).  Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans’ Fight for Sovereignty 1776-2025.  W.W. Norton & Co.

Center for Civic Education (2016).  We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution, 4th Edition.  Center for Civic Education. 

Internet sources:

Jason Fagone and Julia Johnson, “The Killing of Richard Oakes,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, 2023. Available at https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/richard-oakes-killing/.

Treisman, Rachel. “Native Americans seized Wounded Knee 50 years ago. Here's what 1 reporter remembers.” WAMU February 27, 2023. Available at https://wamu.org/story/23/02/27/50-years-ago-activists-and-members-of-the-oglala-lakota-tribe-occupied-wounded-knee/.

National Archives. Treaty of Fort Laramie. Available at https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/fort-laramie-treaty, 1868.

Smithsonian Institute, Navajo Treaty of 1868. Available at https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/navajo/treaty/treaty.cshtml

O’hara, Margaret. “Fifty years later, Casuse 'an ancestor and a predecessor' in Indigenous struggle.” Santa Fe New Mexican, February 28, 2023. Available at santafenewmexican.com.

“Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs & Pepper Spray.” Democracy Now!, September 3, 2016. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuZcx2zEo4k.

Fountain, Aaron G. Jr., “The Forgotten History of High School Student Activism.” Time, July 15, 2026. Available at https://time.com/7266632/history-high-school-student-activism.

Content Standards (2025). Navajo Nation Department of Dine Education. Available at https://oscad.navajo-nsn.gov/Resources/Dine-Content-Standards.

Content Standards (2018). Arizona Department of Education. Available at https://www.azed.gov/standards-practices/k-12standards/standards-social-studies.

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