American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards. American Indian Library Association. A membership action group that addresses the library-related needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives.
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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco Monterey Bay Area, Malcolm Margolin
Key topics: Ohlone tribe, indigenous wisdom, culture, social-studies.
American Indians in Children's Literature. American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL).
Providing a critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books.
As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice From Colonization to Standing Rock, Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Key topics: environmental justice, indigenous wisdom, de-colonization, activism, social-studies, culture.
IwÍgara: The Kinship of Plants and People, American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science, Enrique Salmón
Key topics: indigenous wisdom, ethnobotanical traditions, science, plants, people, culture, social-studies, culture.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Key topics: indigenous wisdom, science, botany, storytelling, plants, people, social-studies, culture.
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence. 2016. Gregory Cajete "tells the story" of Indigenous science as a way of understanding, experiencing, and feeling the natural world. Gregory Cajete. Available through APS Indigenous Education Dept.
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive. 2012.Martín Prechtel. Martin's experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his return to the U.S. after fleeing from Guatemala’s brutal civil war inform this lyrical blend of memoir, indigenous wisdom, and spiritual call to arms.
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources, M. Kat Anderson
Key topics: indigenous wisdom, culture, foraging, natural resources, environmental justice, social-studies.
Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in North American Heartland, Gayle J. Fritz
Key topics: agriculture, indigenous wisdom, north america, history, culture.
Plants Have So Much To Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings, Mary Siisip Geniusz
Key topics: plants, people, indigenous wisdom, Anishinaabe teachings, botany, science, culture.
Native-led Gardening & Farm-to-School Initiatives in New Mexico
Albuquerque Public Schools Indian Education Department. Executive Director, Dr. Daisy Thompson.
Native American Community Academy (NACA) Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Flower Hill Institute at Jemez Pueblo. Jemez, New Mexico. Garden and STEM lab, climate studies, cultural preservation.
First Nations Development Institute. Mission: "To strengthen American Indian economies to support healthy Native communities. We invest in and create innovative institutions and models that strengthen asset control and support economic development for American Indian people and their communities"
Land Acknowledgement, US Department of Arts and Culture: Native Lands
Information on what land acknowledgment is, the benefits of land acknowledgment, and some guidance on how to incorporate land acknowledgment into your communal spaces.
Voices of Indigenous Farmers Farm Aid:
This video was recorded for Farm Aid 2020 On the Road to help mark our 35th anniversary with a virtual at-home festival experience.
Gardening Advice from Indigenous Food Growers, Yes! Solutions Journalism
Eight garden tips from Cheyenne River Youth Project’s Native Food Sovereignty Internship Program Director Julie Garreau
Writings and Videos from Indigenous Persons to Unlearn the History of Thanksgiving. Truthsgiving Resources, ~Unlearning the History of Thankstaking~, Curated by Neftalí Duran for the I-Collective.
De-colonize Your Thanksgiving Curriculum: Shelburne Farms.
De-Colonizing Your Thanksgiving Curriculum is the title of an interactive online workshop for educators offered in late October and early November of this year. It is a collaborative project of Gedakina, the UVM Institute for Innovative Education, Shelburne Farms and Vermont Learning for the Future. The courageous co-facilitators of this webinar are Judy Dow, Emily Hoyler, Jeanie Phillips and Aimee Arandia Østensen. This blog was originally published by the UVM Institute for Innovative Education.
Thankstaking or Thanksgiving, All My Relations Podcast
This episode talks with Wampanoag scholars Paula Peters and Linda Coombs, who tell us the real story of Thanksgiving, from an Indigenous Perspective.
Culture & Learning, Indigenous Education Tools
A brief about understanding students' cultural backgrounds and incorporating them into classroom time.
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