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A Conversation with Indigenous Authors Regarding Representation in Literature
Panelists:
Dr. Debbie Reese, Nambe Pueblo
Yvonne Tiger (ABD), Creek Seminole Cherokee
Professor Eric Gansworth, Onondaga
Morgan Talty, Penobscot
Christopher Newell, Passamaquoddy
Larry SpottedCrow Mann, NipmucAmerican Indians in Children's Literature
https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/Critical Indigenous Literacies: Selecting and Using Children’s Books about Indigenous Peoples” by Debbie Reese, in the July 2018 issue of Language Arts
https://library.ncte.org/journals/LA/issues/v95-6/29686Diversity in Children's Books 2018 (infographic)
https://socialjusticebooks.org/diversity-graphic/Lesson Plans and Teacher's Guide (free, downloadable pdfs in the "Reading Group Guides" tab) for An Indigenous Peoples' History of the US for Young People
http://www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-for-Young-People-P1492.aspxhttps://www.ericgansworth.com/
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A Conversation on Continued Oppression and Erasure Through Public Plaques, Memorials, and Statuary.
Links:
Lon 360: About
Indigenous Cultural Map
Native Knowledge 360˚
Bounty — Upstander Project
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked The World
Plimoth Patuxet Museums- Academic Resources
MOHAWKS, MODEL Ts, AND MONUMENTS: The Formulation of an Unlikely Regional Identity in Western Massachusetts by Robert I. Quay A
Decolonization is not a metaphor
(re)making history Memory, Commemoration, and the Bloody Brook Monuments
Indian Education in the Commonwealth – Voices of the People | Discussions For and With Massachusetts Native Peoples
The erasure of Indigenous People's history - The Boston Globe
Decolonizing Curricular Resources
The U.S. Capitol Is Filled With Racist Depictions of Native Americans. It's Time for Them to GoRecommended Books
“Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790.” Cambridge University Press, O'Brien, Jean, 1997.
“Divorced from the Land: Accommodation Strategies of Indian Women in 18th Century New England” O'Brien, Jean, Gender, Kinship, and Power, Routledge, 1996.
“Why You Can't Teach U.S. History without Indians.” University of North Carolina Press, O'Brien, Jean, 2015.
“What is a Monument to Massasoit Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place in Public Displays of History” O'Brien, Jean, Ethnohistory, 61, 635-53, 2014.
“Recognition and Rebuilding: Routledge” O'Brien, Jean, The World of the Indigenous Americas, 2014.
"'Vanishing' Indians in Nineteenth-Century New England: Local Historians' Erasure of Still-Present Indian People": Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Stong, eds., New Perspectives on Native North America, O'Brien, Jean, 2006.
“Memory and Mobility: Grandma's Mahnomen, White Earth.” O'Brien, Jean, Ethnohistory, 64, 345-77, 2017.
“Tracing Settler Colonialism's Eliminatory Logic in Patrick Wolfe's Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race.” O'Brien, Jean, American Quarterly, 69, 249-55, 2017.
“Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit.” Lisa Blee, University of North Carolina Press, O'Brien, Jean, 2019.
“Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England.” University of Minnesota Press, O'Brien, Jean, 2010.
“Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments.” W.W. Norton and Company, Erin L Thompson, 2022
“Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1860.” Yale University Press 1992, Ohio University Press 2001. Vivien Green Fryd
“Memory Lands: King Phillip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast.” Yale University. Christine Delucia 2018
“The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast.” University of Minnesota Press. Lisa Brooks 2008
“Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Phillip’s War.” Yale University Press. Lisa Brooks 2018
“Through an Indian’s Looking Glass, A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot.” University of Massachusetts Press. Drew Lopenzina 2017
“On Our Own Ground: The Complete writings of William Apess.” Barry O’Connell 1992Children’s Books:
”If You Lived During the Plimoth Thanksgiving.” Scholastic Press. Chris Newell 2021
”Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers From Past and Present.” Ten Speed Press. Adrienne Keene 2021 -
A Conversation with Indigenous Artists Making Art for Social Change
Artists featured:
Nayana LaFond, Anishinaabe, Mi’kmaq, Abenaki
Sarah Whalen-Lunn, Iñupiaq
Jessica Thornton
Bomgiizhik (Isaac Murdoch), Ojibwe: Isaacmurdoch.com, webstoreTopics:
Onaman Collective: Indigenous grassroots land-based art initiative sharing traditional knowledge and language with youth.
Defend the Sacred, Protect the Arctic
Native Movement
Trailer: Dawnland
Data for Indigenous Justice: Reclaiming data of missing and murdered Indigenous womxn, girls, and relatives.
Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
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Healing and Reparations Through The Land Back Movement: A Conversation on Indigenous Land Tenure and Access.
The resources below are for everyone who wants to educate themselves about Land Back Movement, Native history and contemporary cultures. Here is a list of books to start with:
General Native Studies and Indigenous Political Philosophy:
Books by Arthur Manuel, such as "The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land and Rebuilding the Economy."
"The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America," by Thomas King.
"Indigenous Writes: A guide to First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Issues in Canada," by Chelsea Vowel.
"As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance," by Leanne Simpson.
"Laws Indigenous Ethics," by John Borrows, and two volumes co-edited by John Borrows with multiple contributors: "The Right Relationship: Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties," and "Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings."
"In the Light of Justice: the Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the UNDRIP," by Walter Echo-Hawk
"Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire," and other books by Gregory Cajete.
Books by Mi'qmaq author Marie Battiste.Local Native history and Indigenous-authored books.
A few questions to ponder on: What are the treaty relationships made and broken between Native people and settlers here? What are the Creation stories of this place? and What are some of the Old Stories here, to learn from the foundational relationships between Native people and this land, that get renewed with every generation?"Tales from the Whispering Basket," and other books by Larry Spotted Crow Mann.
"Mashpee Nine: A Story of Cultural Justice," by Paula Peters.
"Medicine Trail: the Life and Lessons of Gladys Tantaquidgeon," by Melissa Jayne Fawcett.
"A Son of the Forest and other writings," by William Apess.
"The Common Pot: the Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast" by Lisa Brooks.
"The Trail of Nanaboozhoo and other Creation Stories" by Isaac Murdoch.
"Still they remember me: Penobscot Transformer Tales," by Carol Dana, Margo Lukens and Conor Quinn.
"Woven through the Sweetgrass: Memories of a New England Abenaki Family" by Claudia Chicklas.Some other great ways to get involved, to learn in person and place, in addition to talks, powwows, art and culture events, and visiting cultural centers like Ohketeau, Cayuga Share Farm, Kanatsiohareke, Ganondagan, and museums like the Wampanoag.
History Museum
The Yarmouth Historical SocietyEducational paddles that are open to non-Indigenous people:
The Two-Row on the Grand, on the Grand River in OntarioThe Haudenosaunee Canoe Journeys, which only has a Facebook group, but you can learn more about it through a recent film made by Roxanne Whitebean
The Haudenosaunee Canoe Journeys
http://www.nativelandconservancy.org/press.html
resourcegeneration.org/land-reparations-indigenous-solidarity-action-guide
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/sanctioned-theft-tribal-land-loss-massachusetts
https://www.soulfirefarm.org/about/goals/
https://www.mcnaa.org/land-acknowledgement
https://whyhunger.org/ewrematriation/?fbclid=IwAR2ryo_2rIcwmOeNPzIEPgsnCJff8VxQ99bq3lVXZCILGpP7NU7zjQMH8Gs
https://firstlightlearningjourney.net/resources/
https://land-links.org/issue-brief/tenure-and-indigenous-peoples/
https://friendspeaceteams.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Land-Reparations-by-John-Stoesz.pdf -
Larry Spotted Crow Mann’s Books:
Drumming & Dreaming
The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving
Tales from the Whispering BasketLisa Brooks’ Books:
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the NortheastDrew Lopenzina’s Books:
Through an Indian's Looking Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot (Native Americans of the Northeast)
The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature (Routledge Introductions to American Literature)
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period (SUNY series, Native Traces)William Apess’ Books:
On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot (Native Americans of the Northeast)
A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apes, a Native of the Forest: Comprising a Notice of the Pequod Tribe of IndiansChristine DeLucia’s Books and Publications:
Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
Other Selected Publications
“Terrapolitics in the Dawnland: Relationality, Resistance, and Indigenous Futures in the Native and Colonial Northeast.” Forthcoming in New England Quarterly (Dec. 2019)
“Indigenous Stories in Stone: Mohegan Placemaking, Activism, and Colonial Encounters at the Royal Mohegan Burial Ground.” Article accepted to Native American and Indigenous Studies (forthcoming Fall 2019 or Spring 2020)
“Materialities of Memory: Traces of Trauma and Resilience in Native and Colonial North America.” Forthcoming in English Language Notes 57:2, special issue on “Memory, Amnesia, Commemoration” (Oct. 2019): 7-21
“Fugitive Collections in New England Indian Country: Indigenous Material Culture and Early American History-Making at Ezra Stiles’ Yale Museum.” The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., Vol. 75, No. 1 (Jan. 2018): 111-152.
“An ‘Indian Fishing Weir’ at Musketaquid: Marking Northeastern Indigenous Homelands and Colonial Memoryscapes.” Gallery Essay, Environmental History, Vol. 23, Iss. 1 (Jan. 2018): 184-198.
“Antiquarian Collecting and the Transits of Indigenous Material Culture: Rethinking ‘Indian Relics’ and Tribal Histories.” Object Lessons feature, Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring 2017)
“Locating Kickemuit: Springs, Stone Memorials, and Contested Placemaking in the Northeastern Borderlands.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, special issue on early American environments, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Spring 2015): 467-502.
“The Sound of Violence: Music of King Philip’s War and Memories of Settler Colonialism in the American Northeast.” Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life, special issue on early American music, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Winter 2013)
“Placing Joseph Bruchac: Native Literary Networks and Cultural Transmission in the Contemporary Northeast.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, special issue on Indigenous New England, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Fall 2012): 71-96.
“The Memory Frontier: Uncommon Pursuits of Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip’s War.” The Journal of American History, Vol. 98, No. 4 (March 2012): 975-997
“Border Crossings: Telling Indian Histories at the Frontière.” Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, Vol. 16, No. 1 (March 2012): 134-139
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“Sacred Instructions” Sherri Mitchell
“The Sioux Chef Cookbook” by Sean Sherman
“Native New England Cooking” by Dale Carson
“Recovering our Ancestor’s Garden” by Devon Mehesuah
“Original Land” by Heidi Erdrich
“Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Our Knowledge is Not Primitive” by Wendy Makoons Genuisz
“Native Harvests” Barry Kavasch
“Decolonize Your Diet” by Luz Calvo and Catriona Rueda Esquibel
“Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States” by Devon Mehesuah and Elizabeth Hoover
Special Thanks to our Living Presence Series Funders:
And the Local Cultural Councils of Ashfield, Buckland, Charlemont-Hawley, Colrain, Conway, Cummington, Deerfield, Goshen, Leyden, and Shelburne.