Beyond a Land Acknowledgement - CALM 2024 by David Lemmons

Great Plains Action Society

2024-04-17 19:06:04 UTC

We are a collective of Indigenous organizers of the Great Plains working to resist and Indigenize colonial institutions, ideologies, and behaviors. Our homelands are located in the vast grassland of Turtle Island, situated between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River and stretching from the Northern Tundra to the Gulf of Mexico.

https://www.greatplainsaction.org/

Indigenous Women Rising

2024-04-17 19:07:12 UTC

Indigenous Women Rising is committed to honoring Native & Indigenous People’s inherent right to equitable and culturally safe health options through accessible health education, resources and advocacy.

Fundathon for abortion access through May 31

Seeding Sovereignty

2024-05-13 15:39:36 UTC

Seeding Sovereignty is a multi-lens collective that works to radicalize and disrupt colonized spaces through land, body, and food sovereignty work, community building, and cultural preservation. By investing in Indigenous folks and communities of the global majority, we cross the threshold of liberation together.

Visit local tribal lands/centers and (learn/explore/share) about their histories

2024-05-13 15:42:40 UTC

Indigenous Research LibGuide

2024-05-14 17:47:12 UTC

This guide is intended to offer support and a starting point for Indigenous scholars, students, staff, community members, and anyone looking to learn about the history and contemporary presence of Indigenous Peoples in Maryland. Explore or consider making a similar resource for your community!

Beyond Land Acknowledgments (recording)

2024-05-15 12:00:34 UTC

Check out this recording from a February 2022 webinar, Beyond Land Acknowledgements, presented by the Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center. In this special session, several Alaska Native educators engage participants in thoughtfully considering the role of higher education in the assimilation of Native students and extraction of Native knowledge to its own benefit, and uplift questions and ideas that help align efforts beyond land acknowledgements to the transformation of the relationship between universities and Native communities.

2024-05-15 12:03:36 UTC

For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their homes to “save them from being Indian.” In Maine, the first official Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the United States begins a historic investigation. Dawnland goes behind-the-scenes as this historic body grapples with difficult truths, redefines reconciliation, and charts a new course for state and tribal relations.

Dawnland aired on Independent Lens on PBS in November 2018 and 2021, reaching more than two million viewers. The film won a national Emmy® Award for Outstanding Research in 2019 and made the American Library Association’s list of 2020 Notable Videos for Adults.

2024-05-15 12:04:21 UTC

Mission

We support the self-determination of Wabanaki people through education, truth-telling, restorative justice, and restorative practices in Wabanaki and Maine communities.

We design our structures and processes to be responsive to Wabanaki communities and beneficial to Wabanaki people.

Vision

We envision a future when Maine and Wabanaki people join together to acknowledge truth and work collectively toward equity, healing, and positive change.

We aspire to restore right relations, responsibility, compassion, love, reciprocity, abundance, and joy.

Values

We believe in the natural strength and beauty of Wabanaki culture, language and ways of being.

We believe in the power of Wabanaki people learning the truth about history and reclaiming traditional healing practices.

We honor and promote Wabanaki values of taking care of one another, of being grateful, joyful, loving and forgiving.

2024-05-15 12:06:49 UTC

UMaine redid its signage a few years ago to be bilingual in Penobscot and English - obviously not an action that can be taken without a lot of money and institutional buy-in, but I think a cool way to (re)incorporate Native language and culture into the fabric of a place.

Tongue Unbroken Podcast

2024-05-15 12:14:58 UTC

The Tongue Unbroken (Tlél Wudakʼóodzi Ḵaa Lʼóotʼ) is a podcast about Native American language revitalization and decolonization, as seen through the eyes and mind of a multilingual Indigenous person who is Lingít, Haida, Yupʼik and Sami. This podcast explores complex concepts of identity, resilience, erasure, and genocide and features guests involved in language revitalization and decolonial efforts in Alaska, the United States, Canada, and New Zealand.

Be intentional with who is involved

2024-05-15 16:13:25 UTC

Actively include Indigenous people in discussions about land acknowledgements, and continue to invite them to participate in library spaces beyond needing help with the acknowledgement. Be careful with who gets to define the need and who gets to create the "solution".

2024-05-15 16:41:44 UTC

This podcast has two seasons that are very eye-opening about the way native peoples have and continue to be treated in the United States.

Center for the Futures of Native Peoples at Dickinson College (Carlisle, PA)

2024-05-15 16:51:25 UTC

Newish! "The Center for the Futures of Native Peoples at Dickinson College is a pioneering initiative dedicated to advancing the understanding and appreciation of the Indigenous boarding school experience, promoting the study of North American indigeneity, and fostering a robust national conversation on the past, present, and future of Native American issues. Our Center is uniquely positioned to lead in this endeavor, given Dickinson College's intimate and complicated history with the Carlisle Indian Industrial School (CIIS), a major site of memory for Native Americans located near our campus."

Amah Mutsun Land Trust

2024-05-15 19:59:26 UTC

Local to Monterey Bay/Santa Cruz County

MA Center for Native American Awareness

2024-05-16 14:20:03 UTC

The Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (MCNAA), was founded in 1989 by Burne Stanley-Peters and her late husband John Slow Turtle Peters. At the time, Slow Turtle was the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Commission on Indian Affairs (a state agency) and they both saw many of the needs of Native American communities and families in the Commonwealth going unmet. Additionally, they found there was a lack of knowledge about culture and traditions that wasn’t being exhibited or shared broadly, as well as a lack of understanding about Native American issues and concerns among the general public that needed to be addressed. Before you knew it, Burne had researched and completed Form 1023 and submitted it to the IRS. Several months later, the MCNAA received official 501(c)(3) status.

Their mission is to provide opportunities for the expression and preservation of Native American cultural traditions; to assist Native American residents with essential basic needs and educational expenses; to advance public knowledge and understanding that helps dispel inaccurate information about Native Americans; and to work towards racial equality across the region.

2024-05-16 19:38:28 UTC

The goal of the shelter is to provide a safe environment where women can begin to rebuild their lives.

[Their] programs are based on a balanced, holistic approach. They are offered in-house or through our outreach program to Indigenous women and children.

Media Indigena

2024-05-16 23:45:19 UTC

Independent Indigenous coverage of a wide range of issues, including journalism, policy, arts, etc.

Legacy of Hope

2024-05-17 15:39:34 UTC

The Legacy of Hope Foundation (LHF) is a national, Indigenous-led, charitable organization that has been working to promote healing and Reconciliation in Canada for more than 19 years. The LHF’s goal is to educate and raise awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential School System (RSS) and subsequent Sixties Scoop (SS) on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) Survivors, their descendants, and their communities to promote healing and Reconciliation.

2024-05-21 13:17:12 UTC