Curriculum and Educational Resources:

Ohlone Curriculum

The Ohlone Curriculum by East Bay Regional Parks developed a curriculum developed for the Ohlone peoples of the East Bay

https://www.ebparks.org/programs/educators/ohlone-curriculum


Living with the Land

Living with the Land allows students to explore human relationship with the natural world from the perspective of Ohlone Indigenous knowledge and contrasting western science approaches. By observing the wetland’s past and present, students learn about what wetlands provide and how humans impact this habitat.

https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/education/living-with-the-land.htm


California Indian History Curriculum & Lesson Plans

CIHCC is a group of educators, tribal scholars, and native activists who promote the creation, adoption and implementation of California Indian-vetted curricula

https://www.csus.edu/college/education/engagement/california-indian-coalition-curriculum.html


Book Recommendation List


Book Recommendation list from Kanyon Konsulting website:


  • An American Genocide The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, Benjamin Madley

  • Resurrecting the past, The California Mission Myth, Michelle M. Lorimer, PhD

  • American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, David Stannard

  • Tending the wild, Kat Anderson

  • The Ohlone Past and Present: Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Region (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers ; No. 42)- Lowell John Bean

  • We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth, Edited by: Dahr Jamail Stan Rushworth

  • We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, By: Martin Rizzo-Martinez

  • The Dirt is Red Here, Art and Poetry from Native California Edited by Margaret Dubin

  • First Families A Photographic History of California Indians, L Frank and Kim Hogeland

  • The Morning the Sun Went Down, Darryl Base Wilson

  • Indians and Intruders in Central California 1786-1849, George Hardwood Phillips

  • Grave Matters Excavating California’s Buried Past, Tony Platt

  • If the Truth Be Told Lessons of the Innocence Denied, Cases in California Genocide 1852-1887, Edited and introduction by Jack Norton Author Genocide in Northwestern California

  • The Destruction of California Indians, Robert E. Heizer

  • A Gathering of Voices, The Native Peoples of the Central California Coast

  • Indians of California The Changing Image, James J Rawls

  • The Ohlone Way – Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area, Malcolm Margolin Illustrated by Michael Harney

  • Bad Indians A Tribal Memoir, Deborah A. Miranda

  • Life in a California Mission Monterey in 1786 – A California Legacy book, The Journal of Jean Francois de la Perouse

  • An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Indian Summer – Traditonal life among the Choimumni Indians of California’s San Joaquin Valley, Thomas Jefferson Mayfield

  • The Modoc War – A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of Americas Gilded Age, Robert Aquinas McNally

  • Indian Water Policy in a Changing Environment

  • We Are Dancing for You, Dr.Cutcha Risling Baldy

  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability (New Directions in Sustainability and Society), by Melissa K. Nelson, Daniel Shilling

  • Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future Paperback – January 16, 2008, by Melissa K. Nelson

List Below From: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/recommended-reading/

Rematriation /Unsettling/Land Return

Books

  • Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles

  • An American Genocide, The US and the California Indian Catastrophe by Benjamin Madley

  • A Time of Little Choice: The Disintegration of Trival Culture in the San Francisco Bay Area, Randall Milliken

  • American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, Savid Stannard

  • California through Native Eyes, by William J. Bauer, Jr.

  • Columbus and Other Cannibals, by Dr. Jack Forbes

  • Resurrecting the Past, The California Mission Myth Michelle M Lorimer

  • Indigenous People’s History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right Anders Stephanson

  • What Does Justice Look Like? By Waziyatawin

  • Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation by Beth Rose Manning

Decolonization

  • Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity Chandra Talpade Mohanty,

  • Decolonizing Methodologies, Research and Indigenous People Linda Tuhiwai Smith

For Indigenous Relatives

Allyship and Solidarity

What is a frequently asked question?

Here is where you can write the answer to that question.

What is a frequently asked question?

Here is where you can write the answer to that question.