Junior History Paper Topics

Agents of Repression includes an incisive historical account of the FBI siege of Wounded Knee, and reveals the viciousness of COINTELPRO campaigns targeting the Black Liberation movement.

Describes daily life in native North America, spanning the years from Columbus' first voyage to the end of the nineteenth century.

Confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual government extermination of the "savage redmen," Americans today have recast Native Americans into another, equally stereotyped role: eternal victims, politically powerless and weakened by poverty and alcoholism, yet whose spiritual ties with the natural world form our last, best hope of salvaging our natural environment and ennobling our souls.

Looks at the religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans and how they have contributed to the cultural, social, and political life of the United States.

A preeminent Native American activist writer challenges the idea that modern scientific versions of evolution, the creation of the universe, and the settlement of America are more truthful than traditional Native American versions.

An in-depth visual survey of Native American life is divided into nine cultural areas and discusses their traditions, political and spiritual leaders, and the impact of European settlement on native societies.