Library Guides: Diversity and Inclusion Resources for Curricula: Indigeneity

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Everything You Know About Thanksgiving is WRONG
"Thanksgiving is a great holiday, but the whole story we're taught in school about Pilgrims and Native Americans is basically, just WRONG. Everything from the Native Americans and Pilgrims being best friends, to the outfits the Pilgrims actually wore, down to even the eating Turkey is based on loose half-truths and propaganda. So join Franchesca as she serves up some Thruthsgiving! " MTV Decoded, 2015
Thanksgiving | Native Americans | One Word | Cut
"Cut invites people from different groups to weigh in on one word--and their responses show us just how complicated and unique we all are." 2015
Maria Tallchief: Native American Prima Ballerina
2-minute video about Maria Tallchief, the United States' first prima ballerina.

American Indian Correspondence: Presbyterian Historical Society Collection of Missionaries Letters
Is a collection of almost 14,000 letters written by those who served as Presbyterian missionaries to the American Indians during the years from 1833 to 1893.
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America
Contains manuscripts, artwork, and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century.
American Indian Movement and Native American Radicalism
Includes primary sources, including FBI documentation, about the American Indian Movement dating back to 1968.
Mountain People: Life and Culture in Appalachia
Includes primary source materials from collection entitled First Three Centuries of Appalachian Travel.

Ten Indigenous Writers You Need to Read Right Now
By Alicia Elliott, VICE, 2017
Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans
"This interactive map, produced by University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt to accompany his new book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, offers a time-lapse vision of the transfer of Indian land between 1776 and 1887." Slate, 2014/
Reflections From the Historic Protecting Mother Earth Conference
Photo Essay of the PME conference, sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network, the Nisqually Indian Tribe, and Indigenous Climate Action; ColorLines, 2018
Decolonizing Pedagogy Bibliography
Concordia University Library has collected several resources. There are books, articles, chapters on general decolonization, but also discipline specific resources.

Muskrat Magazine
"MUSKRAT is an online Indigenous arts and culture magazine that honours the connection between humans and our traditional ecological knowledge by exhibiting original works and critical commentary. MUSKRAT embraces both rural and urban settings and uses media arts, the Internet, and wireless technology to investigate and disseminate traditional knowledges in ways that inspire their reclamation."
Generation Screwed, Meet Indigenous Resistance
11 Indigenous resistance movements; Muskrat Magazine, 2014
The Crying Indian
By Ginger Strand, 2008; discusses the 1971 advertisement of the crying Indian, who was an Italian American actor, famous for playing Indians in Hollywood western movies.

Decolonization is Not a Metaphor
E. Tuck and K.W. Yang. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol.1, No.1, 2012, pp. 1-40.

Standing Rock
2016, "This syllabus project contributes to the already substantial work of the Sacred Stones Camp, Red Warrior Camp, and the Oceti Sakowin Camp to resist the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens traditional and treaty-guaranteed Great Sioux Nation territory. "

Nanticoke Indian Association
Delaware's Nanticoke Indian Tribe; photos, events, information and vocabulary, locations, members, links, and contacts.