The people I know who have taught this kind of a course have usually used
a series of ethnographies and biographies/autobiographis--Many short and
paperback ones are available. A few examples include:
 
Bill Simmons
  1986  "Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and
        Folklore, 1620-1984"
John G. Neihardt
  1932  "Black Elk Speaks"  reprinted many times.
 
Polingaysi Qoyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White)
   1964  "No Turning Back: A Hopi Indian Woman's Struggle to Live in Two
          Worlds" as told to Vada F. Carlson
Margaret B. Blackman
   1982   "During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman"
 
Rawls, James J.
   1984  "Indians of California: The Changing Image"
George H. Phillips
   1981   "The Enduring Struggle: Indians in California History"
Elisabeth Tooker
   1991  "An Ethnography of the Huron Indians, 1615-1649"
Robert F. Heizer and Thodora Kroeber, eds.
   1979  Ishi the Last Yahi: A Documentary History
 
And the list goes on--there are many useful government publications too
on things like civil rights and water rights....
 
 
Mary Ellin D'Agostino
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