November is Native American Heritage Month
November is Native American Heritage Month. We hope that you engage and share these resources this month and every month.
History, Ancestry and Decolonizing
- Resource Directory for Finding Your Ancestors
- Resource for Unsettling America (Decolonization in Theory and Practice)
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
- 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill
- PBS series American Experience, Native Americans
- HBO Series Exterminate All the Brutes
- Origins 1491: The Untold Story of the Americas before Columbus
Indigenous Worldviews
- Course with short lectures, videos, and readings on Aboriginal Worldviews
- Canadian based Indigenous Worldview Study guide with some video links
Indigenous knowledge
- After Thousands of Years, Western Science Is Slowly Catching Up to Indigenous Knowledge
- Two-eyed seeing
Indigenous Peoples and Creation Care
- Protecting indigenous cultures is crucial for saving the world’s biodiversity
- Earliest humans in the Amazon created thousands of ‘forest islands’ as they
tamed wild plants
Land acknowledgment
- The Lenape Center (land acknowledgement and Lenape culture)
- Native Governance Center
- US Department of Arts and Culture
Protecting Indigenous Rights Worldwide
Indigenous Organizations and Groups
- Native Organizers Alliance
- The Red Nation
- IllumiNative
- Center for World Indigenous Studies
- Water Protectors, Honor the Earth
- Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women
- Indigenous Climate Action
- Arts and Culture: Thunderbird American Indian Dancers
Books
- Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality by Bob Joseph and Cynthia F. Joseph
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- The Radiant Lives of Animals by Linda Hogan
- One Drum: Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet Richard by Richard Wagamese
- Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
- Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
- This Place: 150 Years Retold (graphic novel) by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Katherena Vermette, Jen Storm et al.
- Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL’s First Treaty Indigenous Player by Fred Sasakamoose