Educational Materials

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES – JOURNAL ARTICLES, RESEARCH REPORTS, NEWS, BLOGS, ETC.

Note: This is a brief, and by no means complete, selection of sites suggested for personal education and classroom use.

All My Relations Podcast https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/

Tara Campbell – “A Copy Editor’s Education in Indigenous Style” https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/01/17/Copy-Editor-Indigenous-Style/

CBC Radio – “I regret it: Hayden King on writing Ryerson University’s territorial acknowledgement” https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/redrawing-the-lines-1.4973363/i-regret-it-hayden-king-on-writing-ryerson-university-s-territorial-acknowledgement-1.4973371

Chip Colwell – “Why Land Acknowledgements Matter” https://www.sapiens.org/culture/land-acknowledgment/#:~:text=Like%20a%20memorial%2C%20land%20acknowledgment,about%20a%20region's%20Indigenous%20history.

Cultural Survival Quarterly – “We Are Still Here: Tribes in New England Stand their Ground” https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/38-2-we-are-still-here-tribes-new-england-stand-their

Laurel R. Davis-Delano, Joseph P. Gone, & Stephanie Fryberg – “The psychosocial effects of Native American mascots: a comprehensive review of empirical research findings.” http://gonetowar.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Mascot-Effects.pdf

Philip Deloria - "The Invention of Thanksgiving: Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/25/the-invention-of-thanksgiving

Judy Dow - "Deconstructing the Myths of 'The First Thanksgiving'" http://www.oyate.org/index.php/resources/43-resources/thanksgiving

Delilah Friedler – “Indigenous Land Acknowledgement, Explained” https://www.teenvogue.com/story/indigenous-land-acknowledgement-explained

Felicia Garcia, Jane Anderson – “Guide to Indigenous Land and Territorial Acknowledgements for Cultural Institutions” http://landacknowledgements.org/

Indian Country Today https://indiancountrytoday.com/

Indianz.Com https://www.indianz.com/

J. Kehaulani Kauanui - Podcast Indigenous Politics, Episode #22 Reconsidering the Origins of Thanksgiving http://www.indigenouspolitics.org/audiofiles/2007/11-20%20Origins%20of%20Thanksgiving%20Show.mp3

Adrienne Keene – “Native Appropriations” http://nativeappropriations.com/

Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone, Margaret Pearce et al. - "Land Grab Universities" https://www.landgrabu.org/

Rebecca Nagle - "This Land" https://live-crooked-2020.pantheonsite.io/podcast-series/this-land/

Native America Calling https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/about/

Native American Calling - Episode "No Thanks for Thanksgiving" - https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/wednesday-november-22-2017-no-thanks-thanksgiving/

Native Governance Center – “A Guide to Indigenous Land Acknowledgement” https://nativegov.org/a-guide-to-indigenous-land-acknowledgment/

Native Land - https://native-land.ca/ - This map can serve as a helpful starting point for locating Indigenous homelands, but it does not include all Indigenous traditional territories. Also, it does not fully represent historical relocations, diaspora, and the fracturing of tribal communities and nations since colonial contact. So please use it with caution, and consult with tribal nations and tribal scholars to resolve any questions.

National Native News https://www.nativenews.net/about/

Native News Online https://nativenewsonline.net/

Christine Nobiss - "Thanksgiving Promotes Whitewashed History So I Organized Truthsgiving Instead" https://www.bustle.com/p/thanksgiving-promotes-whitewashed-history-so-i-organized-truthsgiving-instead-13154470

Paste – “Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Eric Gansworth Reclaims a Racial Slur in His New Memoir” https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/eric-gansworth/eric-gansworth-apple-skin-to-the-core-memoir-cover/

Reclaiming Native Truth Project - (a) "Changing the Narrative about Native Americans: A Guide for Allies" and "Changing the Narrative about Native Americans: A Guide for Native Peoples and Organizations" https://rnt.firstnations.org/ (b) "Research Findings: Compilation of All Research" https://rnt.firstnations.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/FullFindingsReport-screen.pdf

The Red Nation Podcast https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/therednation

Debbie Reese – “American Indians in Children’s Literature” https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/

School for Advanced Research – “Museums+Communities: Guidelines for Collaboration” https://sarweb.org/guidelinesforcollaboration/

Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang – "Decolonization is not a metaphor" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277992187_Decolonization_Is_Not_a_Metaphor

Urban Indian Health Institute - "Our Bodies, Our Stories" https://www.uihi.org/projects/our-bodies-our-stories/

U.S. Department of Arts and Culture – “Honor Native Land: A Guide and Call to Acknowledgement” https://usdac.us/nativeland

Washington Post – “Suzan Harjo fought for decades to remove the Redskins [see footnote] name” https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/suzan-shown-harjo-redskins-name-fight/2020/07/14/6f382d16-c5f4-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html

Matika Wilbur - "Project 562" http://project562.com/about/

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - VIDEOS

Note: This is a brief selection of videos suggested for classroom use.

Baker Twins - “Why are we still celebrating Columbus Day?” https://thebakertwins.blog/2016/10/10/why-are-we-still-celebrating-columbus-day/amp/

Howdice Brown III – “The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors” https://www.tolerance.org/frameworks/teaching-hard-history/american-slavery/classroom-videos#forgotten-slavery

CBC Comedy – “Land Acknowledgement” https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1375680535920065

Gregg Deal – “The Last American Indian on Earth” https://vimeo.com/164478711

Neil Diamond – “Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian” https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/reel-injun/

Ruth Koleszar-Green – “New video explores the importance of understanding the land acknowledgement” https://research.info.yorku.ca/2019/01/new-video-explores-the-importance-of-understanding-the-land-acknowledgement/

Huffpost - "Why These Native Americans Observe a National Day of Mourning Each Thanksgiving" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW0s8ToCyU8

Makepeace Productions – “We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân” https://www.makepeaceproductions.com/wampfilm.html

National Museum of the American Indian – “Nation to Nation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNll8ZWQPkI

National Public Radio – “Why Treaties Matter” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexvE4lZRGo

PBS American Experience – “We Shall Remain” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/weshallremain/

Rocky Mountain PBS – “Urban Rez” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh3gs3eRYTs

Gary Robinson – “Tribal Nation Sovereignty: The Right to Self-Rule.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3pohsdryNc

Reynaldo Morales – “Understanding the Harm: The Nationwide Movement to Eliminate Indian Mascots.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7jnNEZ6ONY

Michéle Stephenson and Brian Young - "A Conversation with Native Americans on Race" https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000005352074/a-conversation-with-native-americans-on-race.html

WCVB5 – “New England’s Indigenous Peoples” https://www.wcvb.com/article/new-englands-indigenous-peoples/8501844#

FOOTNOTE

Many Native Americans regard this word as an epithet that should not be casually used anywhere in print.