Name: Self-Guided Learning: Written and visual resources
Start: 2023-10-09
End: 2023-10-09

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Join us in reading and working through:

Articles:

Here's what Indigenous Peoples' Day means to Native Americans by Emma Bowman
Tribal Land Acknowledgements, What They Are and Why We Need To Do Them by Claudia Fox Tree
Why Indigenous rights are key to fighting climate change by David Kaimowitz
How Native Tribes are taking the lead on climate change by Nicola Jones
Indigenous Resistance has staved off annual emissions by Adam Mahoney

Poetry and Literature:

Bless this Land by Joy Harjo
The Naming by Karenne Wood
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England by Jean M. O’Brien
When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990 by Emma LaRoque

And More:

ILLUMINATIVE Change The Story, Change The Future Action and Insights Guide
United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

For Children and Young Adults:

We Are Still Here! by Traci Sorell
Sharice’s Big Voice: A Native Kid Becomes a Congresswoman by Sharice Davids with Nancy K. Mays
Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know by Brittany Luby
We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
The People Shall Continue by Simon J. Ortiz
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids

Visual References and Artists:

Project 562 by Matika Wilbur
Paige Pettibon

Video Resources:

Unspoken: America’s Native American Boarding Schools (56-minute video)
The Thick Dark Fog, available on Kanopy with an MHC login (56-minute video)

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