The Western Mass Commissioner on Indian Affairs and one of the directors of Ohketeau Cultural Center, Rhonda Anderson, on the importance of Indigenous People’s Day and with ideas and resources on how you can decolonize your mind! Hear the interview and look for links below.
https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/rhonda-anderson-on-indigenous-peoples-day?si=20a35979b27941fda7f531ed43e9eb45
Here’s a virtual Indigenous People’s Day celebration from the American Indian College Fund,
Indigenous Resources from Rhonda Anderson
Mohawk and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
Native Science/ Environment/ Ethics/ Health
Fiction and non-fiction writing
Curriculum planning and lessons
General
An Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, the version for adults, and the version for Young People
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, by Thomas King
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations, edited by Suzanne Shown Harjo
Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future, edited by Melissa Nelson
Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Metis & Inuit Issues in Canada, by Chelsea Vowel
Recovering the Sacred: the Power of Naming and Claiming, by Winona LaDuke
Critical Indigenous Studies, edited by Audra Simpson
Indigenizing the Academy, by Devon Mihesuah and Angela Cavender Wilson
Look to the Mountain, by Greogry Cajete (and anything by him)
Research is Ceremony, by Shawn Wilson
Indigenous Methodologies, by Margaret Kovach
Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision, by Marie Battiste
Dancing on our Turtle’s Back, by Leanne Simpson
Textbooks by Olive Patricia Dickason and James S. Frideres
Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann (white)
New England Regional:
Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing From New England. Edited by Siobhan Senier
Medicine Trail: the Life and Lessons of Gladys Tantaquidgeon, by Melissa Jayne Fawcett
The Mashpee Nine: A Story of Cultural Justice, by Paula Peters
The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800 by Colin Calloway
A Son of the Forest, by William Apess
The Common Pot, by Lisa Brooks
Our Beloved Kin, by Lisa Brooks
Memory Lands, by Christine Delucia
The Penobscot Dance of Resistance: Tradition in the History of a People, by Pauleena McDougall
Seven Sisters, by Frederick Wiseman
Through an Indian’s Looking Glass, by Drew Loenzina (white PHD on William Apess)
Mohawk and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois):
The White Roots of Peace, by Shawn Wallace
The Words that Come Before All Else: Environmental Philosophies of the Haudenosaunee, by the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force
A Basic Call to Consciousness: The Haudenosaunee Address to the Western World, edited by Akwesasne Notes
Creation and Confederation: the Living History of the Iroquois, by Darren Bonaparte
A Lily Among Thorns: the Mohawk Repatriation of Kateri Tekakwitha, by Darren Bonaparte
In Divided Unity, by Theresa McCarthy
The Clay We are Made of, by Susan Hill
To Become a Human Being, the message of Tadodaho Chief Leon Shenandoah
A Clan Mother’s Call: Reconstructing Haudenosaunee Cultural Memory, by Jeanette Rodriguez and Iakoiane Wakerahkats:teh
Native Science/ Environment/ Ethics/ Health:
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence, by Gregory Cajete
Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge, by Daniel Wildcat
As Long as Grass Grows, the Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
We Rise, the Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet, by Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
The River is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community, by Elizabeth Hoover
Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health, by Devon Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover
Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience, by Enrique Salmon
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance, by Leanne Simpson
The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence, by Stephen Cornell
Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture, edited by S. Elizabeth Bird
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer
Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development, edited by Miriam Jorgenseen
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown
The White Man’s Indian, by Robert F. Berkhofer
Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by Kim Tallbear
Unsettled Expectations: Uncertainty, Land and Settler Decolonization, by Eva Mackey
The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right, by Jeffrey R. Dudas
Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination, by Shari M. Huhndorf
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in Early American West, by Ned Blackhawk
The State of Native Nations: Conditions Under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination, by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities, by Devon A. Mihesuah
Real Indians: Identity and Survival of Native America, by Eva Marie Garroutte
Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, by Circe Sturm
Living on the land: Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place, edited by Natalie Kermoal and Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Loaded: A disarming History of the Second Amendment: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Becoming Indian: The Struggle Over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century: Circe Sturm
Fiction and non-fiction writing:
Wabanaki Blues, Melissa Tantaquidgeon
Mean Spirit, by Linda Hogan
NAPI the Trickster, a Blackfoot Graphic Novel by Jason Eaglespeaker
Kiss of the Fur Queen, by Thompson Highway
Birdie, Tracey Lindberg
Rez Road follies, by Jim Northrup
The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving, by Larry Spotted Crow Mann
Tales From the Whispering Basket, by Larry Spotted Crow Mann
Drumming and Dreaming, by Larry Spotted Crow Mann
There, There, by Tommy Orange
The Marrow Thieves, by Cherie Dimaline
The Secret of the Stars, by Gitz Crazyboy
Savage Conversations, by Leanne Howe
Blonde Indian, by Ernestine Hayes
The Tao of Raven, by Ernesting Hayes
April Raintree, by Beatrice Mosionier
My Name is Not Easy, by Debby Dahl Edwardson (white, married into my Iñupiaq family)
Books by Richard Wagamese, Thomas King, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, Joy Harjo
Some Films:
Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian
Good film about representation of Native people in the media (related to mascots, stereotypes, imagery, and symbolism): http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/reel-injun/
Indian Horse https://www.indianhorse.ca/en/film
Dawnland, https://upstanderproject.org/dawnland
The Mashpee Nine
Rhymes for Young Ghouls
Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner
The Journey of Nishiyuu http://nishiyuujourney.ca
National Film Board of Canada: https://www.nfb.ca/education/educational-playlists/
Top 10 Indigenous Films of all Time: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/top-10-indigenous-films-of-all-time-1.2807553
https://nmai.brand.live/c/riseaboveshortsprogram?fbclid=IwAR1Wr5lNUS7dQOYEN9fy6tt4wGxNKqblQSd_f9kXyNTmdi31uqt6IpuUf78 This is a great collection of short films – I adore these.
https://www.makepeaceproductions.com/wampfilm.html a great film about the revival of the Wampanoag language.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/morethanaword a documentary regarding professional mascots.
And a documentary on high school mascots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7jnNEZ6ONY
https://vimeo.com/213791250 – Awake – A Dream From Standing Rock
Curriculum planning and lessons:
Kairos Blanket Exercise (with versions for every region, I have a contact who will send one appropriate for ours): https://www.kairosblanketexercise.org
Example of blanket exercise:
Teaching Tolerance: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2015/rewriting-historyfor-the-better
Maine: https://www.maine.gov/doe/learning/content/socialstudies/resources/mainenativestudies/resources
Project H.O.M.E. https://www.helpingourmotherearth.com
First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Association of Ontario: http://fnmieao.com/resources/
Alberta: https://guides.library.ualberta.ca/first-nations-metis-inuit-contexts-in-education/teacher-resources
British Columbia: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/c.php?g=677238&p=4772604
Free Online Courses:
Podcast: All my relations https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com
Youtube: Conversations in Cultural Fluency #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SegYkan5ymI
(follow links to subsequent chapters)
Other Resources:
Changing the Narrative about Native Americans: A Guide for Allies
Reports from Reclaiming Native Truth Project can be obtained at this link: https://rnt.firstnations.org/
Native Knowledge 360: resources for educators
https://sites.google.com/view/springfieldagawam-landacknowl/home?authuser=2 This is a fabulous local resource list
https://www.ohketeau.org This is my work, we just got started, and we have some great informational panels we hosted in the library.
“American Indian Politics and the American Political System” (4th edition), by David E. Wilkins and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
Laurel thinks this book is especially valuable, as a source for teachers, in regard to teaching about Native nation sovereignty, governmental relations/issues, and other political issues: https://www.amazon.com/American-Indian-Politics-Political-Spectrum/dp/1442252650/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0/138-4567035-0952527?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=QB5ES8ATH91K4412WB3E
Excellent Website Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature: https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/ – by Debbie Reese
Some news sources:
Indian Country Today: https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/
Native News Online: https://nativenewsonline.net/
Chang, David. A. 2010. The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina.
Cobb, Daniel M., and Loretta Fowler, eds. 2007. Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico.
Colley, Brook. 2018. Power in the Telling: Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era. Seattle: University of Washington.
