Resource List
List created by Lyndsay Neffinger, Austin Serio, Nicole Kodak, Cheryl Cook
BOOKS
Adult Non-Fiction
- Chiefdoms Collapse and Coalescence in the Early American South by Robin Beck*
- As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Colville Confederated Tribes
- Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir by Deborah Miranda, Chumash/Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen
- Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo
- Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto by Vine Deloria, Jr., Standing Rock.
- Everything You Know About Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith, Comanche.
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer, Ojibwe.
- Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes, Lower Brule Sioux
- When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz, Akimel O’odham
- Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot, Seabird Island First Nation
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Adult Fiction
- House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa
- Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa by Louise Erdrich
- Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee & Michael Wallis
- The Only Good Indians: A Novel by Stephen Graham Jones, Blackfeet
- There There by Tommy Orange, Cheyenne and Arapaho
- Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson, Cherokee
- Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Poetry
- An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo, Creek
- A History of Kindness by Linda Hogan, Chickasaw
- Whereas by Layli Long Soldier, Oglala Lakota
WEB SOURCES
State Databases
- American Indian History
Biographies, events, primary sources, timelines, images, maps and charts, tribes and culture areas. - American Indian Law Collection
With more than 900 unique titles and 900,000 pages dedicated to American Indian Law, this collection includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.
Websites
- https://indiancountrytoday.com*
Stay connected with Indigenous news — we call it Buzzfeed for Indian Country - https://www.indianz.com*
A news outlet run by the Winnebago/Ho-Chunk Tribe - https://urbanindigenouscollective.org/
Nonprofit organization driving the inclusion of Urban Natives by indigenizing existing infrastructures and ensuring cultural humility in health and wellness services to build more equitable, inclusive and prosperous communities. - https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/nativeamericans/cttribes
Native American Research from the CT State Library - https://native-land.ca/
Map of Native territories. Native Land Digital is a Canadian not-for-profit organization, incorporated in December 2018 - https://ailanet.org/
American Indian Library Association - https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/
American Indians in Children’s Literature - https://najanewsroom.com/resources/
Resources for reporting in Indian Country - https://naturalresources.house.gov/
The House Committee on Natural Resources advances the interests of the indigenous peoples and residents of the territories of the United States
Articles
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520601056240*
Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native by Patrick Wolfe
VIDEOS
- https://www.youtube.com/user/nativemedia*
Vision Maker Media empowers and engages Native People to share stories - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3gF7ULVrl4&t=21s*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iVziGHPhVw*
Content featuring Oren Lyons, a leader and advocate for the Seneca and Onodaga Nations of the Haudenesaunee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbwSwUMNyPU&feature=youtu.be*
Oren Lyons on the Indigenous View of the World - https://www.darkdividefilm.com/
Dark Divide, based on the true story of butterfly expert Dr. Robert Pyle’s (David Cross) 1995 journey across one of America’s largest undeveloped wildlands.
PODCASTS
- All My Relations* Co-Hosts: Adrienne Keene, Cherokee, and Matika Wilbur, Swinomish and Tulalip
- This Land – Host: Rebecca Nagle, Cherokee
- Returning to the Rez – Host and Produced by: Kendall Harvey, Diné
- Creative Native Podcast – Creator: Natalie Welch, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
- Stories From The Land, Thunder Bay – Host: Ryan McMahon, Ojibway
- The Talking Stick – Produced by: Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and the National Congress of American Indians
- 21st Century Native Leaders – Host: Peter Deswood III
- Breakdances with Wolves – Host: Gyasi Ross, Wesley B. Roach, and Minty LongEarth
RADIO STATIONS
- https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
Native America Calling
Live call-in program linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together in a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Based in Alaska.
CT NATIVE HISTORY
- Native Languages of the Americas: Volume 2, Volume 2 edited by Thomas Sebeok
- http://nativenortheastportal.com/annotated-transcription/digcoll1018241
Report of a Committee respecting the Lands of the Sharon and Salisbury Indians - http://lcweb4.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2010/20100511001hi/20100511001hi.pdf
An Historical Sketch of Salisbury, Connecticut by Malcom Day Rudd, specifically pages 6-7 - https://schaghticoke.com/history/
The official website of Schaghticoke Tribal Nation - http://1704.deerfield.history.museum/popups/background.do?shortName=ExpWob_persistence
Schaghticoke and Points North: Wôbanaki Resistance and Persistence by Marge Bruchac
Court Cases
Schaghticoke, an un-recognized group by Connecticut
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-108hhrg92827/pdf/CHRG-108hhrg92827.pdf
– Per Austin Serio of Urban Indigenous Collective
*sources recommended by speakers