Native American Heritage & Indigenous Activism: Issues

Online Resources

• Dedicated to Building Indigenous Power (NDN Collective)
• Landback (NDN Collective)
• Become a Rebuilder (Native Governance Center)
• Red Nation
• What Is "LandBack?" (Suzuki Foundation)
• The "Landback" Movement Would Return Stolen Land to Indigenous Stewardship (In These Times)
• Return the National Parks to the Tribes (The Atlantic)
• Tracking Disposessions

• Invasion of America: How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World

Videos

Online Resources

• If Not Us, Then Who?
• Taŋyáŋ yahí (Welcome) (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe)
• Mother Earth Water Walk
• Indigenous Environmental Network
• Environmental Justice for Tribes and Indigenous Peoples (Environmental Protection Agency)
• Indigenous Leaders at the Frontlines of Environmental Injustice and Solutions (Natural Resources Defense Council)
• Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change (United Nations)
• Native Conservancy
• Stand with Standing Rock
• US Climate Resilience Toolkit: Tribal Nations
• The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It's Also Centuries Old) (NPR)
• The Legacy of Standing Rock
• The Standing Rock Syllabus Project
• Indigenous Women, Water Protectors, and Reciprocal Responsibilities (National Association of Social Workers)

Books

Videos

Online Resources

• Indigenous Studies Commons
• Settler Colonialism Primer (Unsettling America)
• Decolonial Reading List
• Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor (Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society)
• Decolonizing Curricular Resources
• International Indigenous Youth Council
• Seeding Sovereignty

For more information, consult these dedicated LibGuides

• “First Nations and Indigenous Studies,” University of British Columbia LibGuide. 
• “Indigenous Research Methodologies,” University of British Columbia LibGuide. 

Books

Videos

Online Resources

Articles

• "Stitching through Silence: Walking with Our Sisters, Honoring the Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women in Canada," by Stephanie G. Anderson, Textile, 14(1), January 2016.
• "Multicultural Feeling, Feminist Rage, Indigenous Refusal," by Jerry Burman, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 16(4), 2016.
• "Unsettling Spaces: Grassroots Responses to Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women During the Harper Government Years," by Samira Saramo, Comparative American Studies, 14(3-4), 2016.

Websites

• "Meet Kaysera Stops Pretty Places," Justice for Kaysera.
• "MMIWGS2S," Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women.
• National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC).
• Illuminative

Reports and Other Sources

• "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: A snapshot of data from 71 urban cities in the United States," by the Urban Indian Health Institute, 2016.
• "Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men," by André B. Rosay, National Institute of Justice, June 1, 2016.

For more information, consult these dedicated LibGuides:

• “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG),” University of New Mexico LibGuide. 
• “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, & Two-Spirit (MMIWG2S),” University of British Columbia LibGuide. 

Books

Videos

Online Resources

• "The U.S. History of Native American Boarding Schools," by Melissa Mejia, the Indigenous Foundation.
• "US Indian Boarding School History," The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
• Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center
• Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
• National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

For more information, consult these dedicated LibGuides

• “Boarding Schools,” IAIA Library LibGuide. 
• “Indian Residential School System of Canada,” University of British Columbia LibGuide. 

Books

"Since 1970, Indigenous people & their allies have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native people do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims & other European settlers. Thanksgiving Day is a reminder of the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of Native lands and the erasure of Native cultures. Participants in National Day of Mourning honor Indigenous ancestors and Native resilience. It is a day of remembrance and spiritual connection, as well as a protest against the racism and oppression that Indigenous people continue to experience worldwide." 

From United American Indians of New England

• National Day of Mourning (UAINE)
• National Day of Mourning turns Thanksgiving into something more honest (CNN)
• We are as strong as ever’: Indigenous people from across the region and beyond mark day of remembrance (Boston Globe)
• First "National Day of Mourning" Held in Plymouth