Team Three:
 Native Americans and war  (the 2nd World War--the Philippines, Japanese P.O.W.s;  veterans & the Veterans Administration hospitals; alcoholism, especially among veterans; uranium and the Trinity Project) Sources to check out on these topics (the name of the presenter is in square brackets after the title--ask him or her for more details).

Knox, Donald.  Death March:  The Survivors of Bataan.  New York:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.   [Kevin Munjal]

"Statements on Japanese Abuse of Prisoners on Bataan."  The New York Times, January 28, 1944.  A6   [Kevin Munjal]

Thomas, David Hurst, Jay Miller, Richard White, Peter Nabokov, and Philip J. Deloria.  The Native Americans:  An Illustrated History.  Atlanta:  Turner, 1993.  422-25.   [Kevin Munjal]

Wood, Lewis.  "Horror Tale Bared By Three Officers."  The New York Times.  January 28, 1944. A1 + A6.  [Kevin Munjal]

Fisico, Donald.  Termination and Relocation:  Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1986.  3-20  [Kevin Munjal] [Aja Foote]

Vizenor, Gerald.  Cross Bloods:  Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1990.  [Emily Stine]

Many studies of the rate of alcoholism in Native American tribes have been done.  All have concluded that there is no genetic reason for some tribes to have problems with alcohol abuse, but there have been many theories on why Native Americans are so susceptible to alcoholism.  The reasons range from poor socio-economic conditions to tribal traditions of leadership.  Studies have also closely examined the devastating problem of fetal alcohol syndrome on Indian reservations.
Silko, Leslie Marmon.  Yellow Woman and the Beauty of the Spirit.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1996.  [David Birnkrant]
A giant stone snake as found in 1980 in the mines of the old uranium mine on Laguna territory, which was strange because by its appearance it had been there a long time, but no one had ever seen it or heard about it.  A giant snake is the messenger for the mother creator, and this all shed light on events that happened in 1940, when the government forced the indians off their land because they wanted to dig for uranium which was in the ground.  The elders said that they would pay for disrupting the sacred earth this way, which strangely happened in 1973 when there was an unexplained mass suicide by seven local High School students, followed by a massacring of two more by a friend.  As it turns out, the elders were right about the whole thing as the recent discovery of the giant snake proves.
 
Other sites found by David include:
 
To learn about the Navajo memorial Emily described, see http://www.navajos.com/memorial/

Other sites of interest:  Connect the Death march of Bataan with the "Long March of the Navajo" to see the complexity ogf Silko's symbolism:  http://www.navajo.org/lwalk.html