Exploring Indigenous identities
Here we explore the identifications that determine our governmental, economic and social outcomes.
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Indian Country Today
Native American facts, Indian news and American Indian service, plus Native history and culture.
Indian Country Today
Native Affairs | Colorlines
Check out a rich collection of materials from COLORLINES related to Native American news and culture in the U.S.
COLORLINES
Native-Land
Native Land Digital is a Canadian not-for-profit organization, incorporated in December 2018.
Native-Land
Honor Native Land – U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
A guide and call to acknowledgment.
The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
Interactive Map: Loss of Indian Land
Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans.
SLATE
Liberated Capital: A Decolonizing Wealth Fund
Liberated Capital supports Indigenous and other people-of-color-led initiatives working for transformative social change. This fund—directed by the Decolonizing Wealth Project —aims to move untethered resources to help shape a future in which we can all heal from generations of colonial trauma and thrive in our cultures.
Grapevine
Native Americans ask East Bay residents to pay tax on land
Consider paying a voluntary tax to the tribe whose land you occupy.
KALW
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities (EPIC) advances social justice by engaging Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities through culturally relevant advocacy, research, and leadership development.
Empowering Pacific Islander Communities
Decolonization
Decolonization includes cultural, psychological, and economic independence for Indigenous people, a key part of achieving Indigenous sovereignty, the right and ability to practice self-determination over land, culture and political and economic systems.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Land Reparations & Indigenous Solidarity Toolkit
A good starting point to take collective action towards land repatriation to Indigenous people in the ongoing struggle against colonization.
Resource Generation
BODIES DON’T JUST TELL STORIES, THEY TELL HISTORIES: Embodiment of Historical Trauma among American Indians and Alaska Natives
Understand how the role of historical events and context affect present-day health inequities has become a dominant narrative among Native American communities.
PubMed
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