Resources by labyrinth quadrant
Telling the Truth
- All My Relations with Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation)
- America Has Always Used Schools as a Weapon Against Native Americans (Boarding Schools)
- Cultural Appropriations and the Plains Headdress
- Growing up Indigenous when u don’t look it (20 min)
- Last Lakota Code Talker (WWII)
- The Myth of Native American Extinction Harms Everyone
- Native American Representation in Westerns
- Settler Fragility: Why Settler Privilege Is So Hard to Talk About by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- The Skinning Tree America’s redface problem onstage
- True Story of the First Thanksgiving
- 5 Ways The Government Keeps Native Americans In Poverty
- Social Change and Indigenous History and Wisdom by Rob Ruehl
- Uprooted: Podcast About the genocidal Indian relocation and termination policies of the US government in the 1950s and 60s.
- Waaseyaa consulting Created to enhance the awareness and understanding of Algonquin Anishinaabeg history and culture throughout unceded Algonquin territory and beyond.
- The Ways Stories on culture and language from Native Communities around the Central Great Lakes
- Why I’m not a Shaman, and neither are you
- All the Real Indians Died Off and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes)
- American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
- The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West by Peter Cozzens
- Extraordinary American Indians by Susan Avery and Linda Skinner
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
- Indian Givers by Jack WeatherfordAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz The Other Slavery: The
- Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez (Mexican)
- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas
- The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative by Thomas King (Cherokee)
- 1491 by Charles C. Mann (but second book, 1493, not recommended by our Indigenous friends)
Proclaiming the Dream
- God is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria, Jr.
- The Four Vision Quests of Jesus by Steven Charleston
- The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing by Lori Alvord (Diné) and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
Practicing the Way
- Charity Navigator
- It’s Ok To Buy and Wear Indigenous Art
- Guardian Adventures Online Panel: Cultural Appropriation & Misrepresentation
- Language Keepers Podcast by Emergence Magazine
- The Seventh Fire Blogspot
- What Does the Earth Ask From Us by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- 4 Ways To Honor Without Appropriating Culture
- 100 Ways to Support, Not Appropriate From, Native People by Simon Moya-Smith and Lila Wopila
- As Long as The Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes)
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi)
- Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health by Elizabeth Hoover (Mohawk/ Mi’kmaq)
- This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving by David J. Silverman
- Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
- 400 Years: Anglican/Episcopal Mission Among American Indians by Owanah Anderson
Repairing the Breach
- American Indians Religious Freedom Act
- Doctrine of Discovery Resolution to Repudiate
- Episcopal Church Indigenous Ministries
- Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations
- Haaland, Warren Seek Healing for Stolen Native Children and Their Communities
- Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgment
- International Indian Treaty Council
- It Takes a Movement (Indian Child Welfare Act)
- The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
- Native American/Indigenous Ministries of the Episcopal Church
- Next Steps Handout from Doctrine of Discovery workshops
- Province V Dismantling Racism Network
- Telling the Truth as a Way of Healing
- United Nations General Assembly Oct. 2007
- Voting Rights for Native Americans
- Walking Together Finding Common Ground Traveling Exhibit Facebook page
- What Women’s Suffrage Owes To Indigenous Culture
- Winter Talk Facebook group
Additional Resources
Books for Young Adults and Children
Young Adult Literature:
- The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)
- Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card
- Soaring Spirits: Conversations with Native American
- Teens by Karen Gravelle (not Native)
- There, There by Tommy Orange (Cheyenne/ Arapaho)
- Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American
- West by Dee Brown (Dorris Alexander “Dee” Brown
Books for Children:
32 Native American Children’s Books
- Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole) and Juana Martinez-Neal (Peruvian)
- Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp (Mohawk)
- Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Muscogee – Creek)
- The Mishomis Book by Edward Benton-Banai
- Pow Wow by Linda Coombs (Wampanoag)
- Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons by Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki) – he has many, many books
- The Unbreakable Code by Sara Hoagland Hunter (not Native)
- We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom (Anishinaabe/ Métis) and Michaela Goade (Tlingit/ Haida)
- If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving by Chris Newell
Music and Poetry
Music
- AIM Unity Song
- Blackbird by The Beatles sung in Mi’kmaq by Emma Stevens
- The Climb by Miley Cyrus sung in Mi’kmaq by 10-year-old Kalolin Johnson
- Crystal Woman, andWho Will Speak
- Gentle Warrior (featuring Devon Paul and Thunder Herney) by an older Kalolin Johnson
- Here is a good, simple song for Columbus Day
- Indanee by Pat Humphries is beautiful
- Prayer Loop Song by Supaman shows Hip Hop sound “layering”
- Sharon Burch has several YouTube videos: “Colors of My Heart”
- Stand Up is about DAPL
- Why also has a Jingle Dress Dancer
- Wishi Ta and other songs by Brooke Medicine Eagle.
Poetry
- Bitterroot by
- Abena Songbird (Abnaki)
Jimmie Durham (Cherokee) - Contemporary Native American Poetry by John E. Smelcer
(Alaskan Native/ Ahtna) & D. L. Birchfield (Chocktaw), Eds. - No Parole Today by
Laura Tohe (Diné/ Navajo) - Columbus Day by
- Durable Breath:
- Laura Tohe (Diné/ Navajo)
- Rainbow Dancer by
Heather Harris (Metic/ Cree) - Sculpted Stones by
Victor Montejo (Maya)
Film, TV and Ted Talks
Films
- Blood Memory
- Code Talkers – short film about Code Talkers in WWII
- Crooked Arrows (a little campy, but great conversation starter, Indigenous actors) – About the origins of lacrosse, filmed in Massachusetts
Edge of America – New teacher is asked to coached female basketball team on a reservation) - The Fast Runner – Two brothers challenge the evil order: Amaqjuaq, the Strong One, and Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner. Atanarjuat escapes running naked over the spring sea ice
- How the US Stole Thousands of Native American Children
Leonard Peltier (90 min, 1970s) - Smoke Signals (Indigenous actors, producers, directors) – two young Idaho men with radically different memories of Arnold Joseph, who has just died, road trip to retrieve Arnold’s ashes
- The Stories–Preserving Our Past
- Trudell – Movie about this activist
- Waban-Aki: People from Where The Sun Rises
Television
- Dawnland
- Bounty
- Dear Georgina
- Longmire (TV Series)
- Natural Healing
- Native America (PBS 2018)
- Native America in the Classroom – Lessons with clips from film
- We Shall Remain (PBS)
- Yellowstone (TV Series)
- 500 Nations (Mini-Series, 1995)
- 1491 (8-part series 2019)
TED Talks
- Creating a “Good Mind”: The Power of Giving Thanks by Michael Martin
- We the People (17 min) – the 3 most misunderstood words in US history by Mark Charles
News and Websites
- Culture Card-A Guide to Build Cultural Awareness
- Global Oneness Project
- High Country News
- Indian Country Today
- Indigenous World
- Maine-Wabanaki REACH
- National Congress of American Indians
- Native American Organizations that Serve the Community
- Native American Resources Compiled and Reviewed by Claudia Tekina’ru Fox Tree
- Native American Rights Fund
- Native-Americans.com
- Native Land Map
- Ojibwe.net
- Shop Indigenous World
- Tribal Organizations
*Many of the resources listed here were compiled and reviewed by Claudia A. Fox Tree, M.Ed (Arawak)