Students develop their own curriculum and
we construct/justify our program process by studying/internalizing (reading, seminaring, creating/delivering workshops, discussing in small/large groups, writing our reflections via email, web crossing, self evaluations, talking during conferences, discussing in study groups... and doing/using) concepts from the following books:
-Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
-A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn
-Choice Theory by William Glasser
-Intelligence Reframed by Howard Gardner
-The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav
-Ceremony by Silko 
-Broad and Alien is the World by Ciro Alegria (travellers to Peru)
-1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann
-Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford
 
Recommended books:
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire-0826412769
Intelligence Reframed by Howard Gardner-0465026117
A People's History of the U S by Howard Zinn- 0060528370
The Art of Changing the Brain by James E. Zull-1579220541
Native American Testimony-Peter Nabokov- 0140281592
Education For Extinction by David Wallace Adams
1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann
Broad and Alien is the World by Ciro Alegria (travellers to Peru).
Teaching to Transgress by Bell Hooks-0415908086
Choice Theory by William Glasser- 0060930144
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith-1856496244
Natives and Academics by Devon Mihesuah- 0803282435
Genocide of the Mind by Marijo Moore-1560255110
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Steven C. Hayes-1572309555
Methodology of the Oppressed by Chela Sandoval-0816627371

Inspirational Reading:
5 Million Footsteps: The Transcontinental Trek of the Global Walk for a Livable World by Greg Edblom