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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: We wish to acknowledge that the University of Massachusetts Boston is situated upon the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the Massachusett First Nations. We pay respect to the elders, both past and present, as well as future generations. This acknowledgement demonstrates our commitment to working to dismantle the systems of oppression that have displaced Indigenous Peoples and the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism.
Author Q&A for Becoming Mary Sully (INENAS collab)
Author Q&A for Becoming Mary Sully (INENAS collab)
Thank you Harvard University's Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History Philip J. Deloria (Dakota People of Yankton)
and Institute for New England Native American Studies Director Cedric Woods (Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina)
E-Books available for online access
E-Books available for online access
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
by Ned Blackhawk
"All the Real Indians Died Off": and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Say We Are Nations : Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887
edited by Daniel M. Cobb
Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Native American Experience: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood
by Dee Brown
Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America
edited by Andrew Woolford, Jeff Benvenuto, and Alexander Laban Hinton
Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England
edited by Siobhan Senier
I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories
edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Melanie Benson Taylor
American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance : Word Medicine, Word Magic
edited by Ernest Stromberg
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories
by Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop
edited by Jeff Berglund, Jan Johnson, and Kimberli Lee
A Two-Spirit Journey : The Autobiography of A Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer
Spaces Between Us : Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
by Scott Lauria Morgensen
Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
edited by Robert Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson
Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
by Emily DuGranrut
Eating the landscape American Indian stories of food, identity, and resilience
by Enrique Salmón
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World
by Margaret D. Jacobs
Facing the Future: the Indian Child Welfare Act at 30
edited by Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Wenona T. Singel, and Kathryn E. Fort
Native American Veterans & Soldiers
Native American Veterans & Soldiers
Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War
by Al Carroll
First Americans: U.S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I
by Thomas Grillot
Crossing the Pond : the Native American Effort in World War II
by Jere'Bishop Franco
Environmental Activism & Justice
Environmental Activism & Justice
Indigenous Resurgence : Decolonialization and Movements for Environmental Justice
edited by Jaskiran Dhillon
Standing with Standing Rock : Voices From the #NoDAPL Movement
edited by Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon
As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
L’eau est la Vie (Water Is Life): From Standing Rock To The Swamp
directed by Sam Vinal
24 minutes
Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit (MMIWG2S)
Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit (MMIWG2S)
Violence Against Indigenous Women : Literature, Activism, Resistance
by Allison Hargreaves
Keetsahnak : Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell & Christi Belcourt
Forever Loved : Exposing the Hidden Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
edited by D. Memee Lavell-Harvard and Jennifer Brant.
Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance
by Amber Dean
Indian Boarding Schools
Indian Boarding Schools
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition WEBSITE
American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many AUDIO ARTICLE W/ TRANSCRIPT (7MIN)
The Thick Dark Fog - Reclaiming Native American Identity VIDEO
Carlisle Indian Industrial School : Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations
by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose
The Indian school on Magnolia Avenue : Voices and Images from the Sherman Institute
edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, and Lorene Sisquoc
National Day of Mourning
National Day of Mourning
United American Indians of New England: National Day of Mourning Info & Events WEBSITE
A Thanksgiving Message from Seven Amazing Native Americans - Project 562 Blog - Project 562 WEBSITE
Truthsgiving: The True History of Thanksgiving (Do Something.org) WEBSITE
The Unsung Influence of the National Day of Mourning: A Study of Indigenous Activism, Race, and Memory DISSERTATION, 2022
Additional Links
Additional Links
Native American and Indigenous Students at UMass Boston: Resources and Links
Institute for New England Native American Studies (UMass Boston)
Native American and Indigenous Studies (UMass Boston)
MA Indigenous Legislative Agenda
Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (mcnaa.org)
Selections updated by Ann Marie Shafer October 2023. Selections curated by Roxann Harvey, Ann Marie Shafer, Dani Kodess, and Louisa Choy, November 2022
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