Reading and Resource List

Are you interested in incorporating indigenous science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) into your teaching in an ethical way, but aren't sure where to start? We’ve compiled a list of educational resources from our Native American Studies Department’s TEK Faculty Fellow Book Circle to serve as a starting point.

Land Acknowledgements & Beyond

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
Comedy Sketch about Land Acknowledgements	CBC Comedy	Video - 2 min	October 17, 2019
'I regret it': Hayden King on writing Ryerson University's territorial acknowledgement	CBC Radio	Article	2019
What Good is a Land Acknowledgement	Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy	Video - 1 hr 9 min	June 8, 2020

Indigenous History: Turtle Island

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
An Indigenous People's History of the United States	Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz	Book	2014
Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, and Reality	Donald L. Fixico	Book	2013
First Humans Entered the Americas Along the Coast, Not Through the Ice	Jason Daley	Article	2016
FSU researcher finds clues to early civilization in southeastern U.S.	Kathleen Haughney	Article	2016
How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger	NPR	Article	2019
Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims	Carl Zimmer	Article	2017
Link Between Grizzly Bear DNA and Indigenous Languages Found	N/A	Article	2021
‘Mind blowing’: Grizzly bear DNA maps onto Indigenous language families	Rachel Fritts	Article	2021
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations	Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian	Online Exhibit	2016
Native Historians Write Back : Decolonizing American Indian History	Susan A. Miller, James Riding In	Book	2011
Native Studies Keywords	Stephanie Nohelani Teves (Editor), Andrea Smith (Editor), Michelle Raheja (Editor)	Book	2015
Native waters : contemporary Indian water settlements and the second treaty era	Daniel McCool	Book	2002
New Archaeological Evidence for an Early Human Presence at Monte Verde, Chile	Tom D. Dillehay	Journal Article	2015
Pre-Clovis occupation 14,550 years ago at the Page-Ladson site, Florida, and the peopling of the Americas	Jessi J. Halligan	Journal Article	2016
Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact	Vine Deloria Jr.	Book	1995
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition	Glen Coulthard	Book	2014
The American Discovery of Europe	Jack D. Forbes	Book	2011
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America	Andrés Reséndez	Book	2016
Unsettling America's Settler Colonialism Primer	Laura Hurwitz, Shawn Bourque	Article	2014
Vine Deloria Jr. on Our Relationship to the Unseen	N/A	Video - 5 min	2015
Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country	Traci Brynne Voyles	Book	2015
What Indigenous Languages Reveal About Bear Genetics	Gloria Dickie	Article	2021

Indigenous History: California

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
2002 - Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians	Kimberly Johnston-Dodds	Article	2017
Advocacy & Water Protection in Native California Curriculum	Save California Salmon	Curriculum	N.D.
Continued Disembodiment: NAGPRA, CAL NAGPRA, and Recognition	Brittani R. Orona, Vanessa D. Esquivido	Journal Article	2020
History of Native California	Humboldt PBLC	Video - 13 min	2019
Humboldt Journal of Social Relations Special Issue 42: California Indian Genocide and Healing	N/A	Journal	2020
Map of unratified treaties in California	California Indian History	Map	N/A
Native Americans walk the California Trail of Tears	Christina Aanestad	Audio clip - 4 min	2007
Quest for Tribal Acknowledgement: California’s Honey Lake Maidu by Sara-Larus Tolley	Sara-Larus Tolley	Book	2006
The First Satellite Map of California (1851): The incredible (and indeed untrue) story of President Taylor's APE	Frank Jacobs	Article	2012
The Process and The People: Federal Recognition in California, Native American Identity, and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians	Olivia Chilcote	Article	2017
Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River	Beth Rose Middleton Manning	Book	2018
We Are a Part of the Land and the Land Is Us: Settler Colonialism, Genocide & Healing in California	Kaitlin Reed	Journal Article	2020
We Are the Land : A History of Native California	Damon Akins and William Bauer	Book	2021
What John Muir Missed: The Uniqueness of California Indians	Lawrence Hogue	Article	2016
What’s in a Name?: An Examination of Historians’ Reluctance to Use the Word Slavery in the Context of California Indian Genocide	Stephanie Lumsden	Article	2018

Indigenous History: Humboldt County

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
Deaths at Chemawa: Researchers publish a website detailing deaths at the Oregon school, including children from Humboldt	Mary Annette Pember and Indian Country Today	Article	2021
KCET S3.E1: Guarding Ancestral Ground with the Wiyot	KCET	Video - 27 min	2020
Northwest Indigenous Gold Rush History: The Indian Survivors of California's Holocaust	Kate Droz-Handwerker, Chag Lowry, Fawn White, Rain Marshall, Ron Griffith, Lonyx Landry	Booklet	1999
Wiyot Place Names	Wiyot Tribe	Video - 8 min	N.D.
Working for and toward Land Return of Goukdi’n	Cutcha Risling Baldy, Carrie Tully	Article	2019

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) & Indigenous Science

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
Anishnaabe Aki: an indigenous perspective on the global threat of invasive species	Nicholas J. Reo, Laura A. Ogden	Journal Article	2018
Braiding Sweetgrass	Robin Wall Kimmerer	Book	2013
Climate CA 30x30 Plan & Land Back (TEK, Science & Management Webinar Series)	Save California Salmon	Video - 37 min	2021
Critical Investigations of Resilience: A Brief Introduction to Indigenous Environmental Studies & Sciences	Kyle Whyte	Journal Article	2018
'Fire is medicine': the tribes burning California forests to save them	Susie Cagle	Article	2019
First-ever compendium of indigenous technologies provides a powerful toolkit for climate-resilient design	Sala Elise Patterson	Article	2020
In Light of Reverence documentary	PBS & Hopi, Winnemem Wintu, and Lakota Sioux tribes	Video - 1 hr 15 min	2001
Indigenous Conservation Practices Are Not a Monolith: Western cultural biases and a lack of engagement with Indigenous experts undermine studies of land stewardship	Kelsey Leonard (Shinnecock Nation), et al.	Journal Article	2020
Indigenous Knowledge Cannot Be a Backup Plan: Collaboration, Sustainability & Decolonization	Cutcha Risling Baldy, Brittani Orona, Esme Murdock	Video - 1 hr 19 min	2022
Indigenous Land Stewardship \| Tending Nature	KCET	Video - 57 min	2021
Indigenous Uses, Management, and Restoration of Oaks of the Far Western United States	USDA	Report	2007
Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change	Isuma TV	Video	2010
Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellioustransformation	Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	Journal Article	2014
Lo—TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism	Julia Watson	Book	N/A
Native Maker spreads awareness about traditional foods	Blue Lake Rancheria	Video - 2 min	2021
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence	Gregory Cajete	Book	2000
Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let’s Start by Ditching “It”	Robin Wall Kimmerer	Article	2015
Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future	Melissa K. Nelson	Book	2008
Practicing Pikyav: Policy for Collaborative Projects and Research Initiatives with the Karuk Tribe	Karuk-UC Berkeley Collaborative	Article	N.D.
Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge	Daniel R Wildcat	Book	2009
Salmon & Acorns Feed Our People	Kari Marie Norgaard	Book	2019
Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples: The Cultural Politics of Law and Knowledge	Laurelyn Whitt	Book	2009
Tending the Wild	KCET	Video - 1 hr	2017
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources	M. Kat Anderson	Book	2005
The Problem With The Ecological Indian Stereotype	Dina Gilio-Whitaker	Article	2017
The Teachings of Plants: Finding Common Ground Between Traditional and Scientific Knowledge	Robin Wall Kimmerer	Video - 1 hr 17 min	2017
They’ve managed the forest forever. It’s why they’re key to the climate change fight	Julia Rosen	Article	2019
Traditional Ecological Knowledge & Place-based Learning Communities	Humboldt PBLC	Video - 10 min	2019
Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fact Sheet	U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service	Fact Sheet	2011
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Science & Management Webinar Series	Save California Salmon	Webinars	N/A
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: The Third Alternative (Commentary)	Raymond Pierotti, Daniel Wildcat	Journal Article	2000
We can’t keep treating indigenous knowledge as a backup plan	Zoe Madden-Smith	Article	2020
We Have Always Been Scientists: Science, Sustainability & Indigenous Knowledge Systems	Kaitlin Reed, Deepti Chatti, Zoe Todd	Video - 1 hr 16 min	2022
Why we gather: traditional gathering in native Northwest California and the future of bio-cultural sovereignty	Cutcha Risling Baldy	Journal Article	2013

Indigenous Environmental Justice

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock	Dina Gilio-Whitaker	Book	2019
Defending Mother Earth: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice	Jace Weaver, Editor	Book	1996
Dumping In Dixie: Race, Class, And Environmental Quality, Third Edition	Robert D. Bullard	Book	1990
Environmental Justice, American Indians and the Cultural Dilemma: Developing Environmental Management for Tribal Health and Well-being	Darren J. Ranco, Catherine A. O’Neill, Jamie Donatuto, and Barbara L. Harper	Journal Article	2011
Indigenous Experience, Environmental Justice and Settler Colonialism	Kyle Powys Whyte	Journal Article	2016
Indigenous People and Environmental Justice: The Impact of Climate Change	Rebecca Tsosie	Journal Article	2007
Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research?	Jamie Vickery and Lori M. Hunter	Journal Article	2017
Our history is the future : Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance	Nick Estes	Book	2019
Processing Settler Toxicities: Parts I and II	Anne Spice	Blog Posts	2018
Standing Rock Syllabus	NYC Stands With Standing Rock	Reading List	N.D.
Standing with Standing Rock: Voices From the #NoDAPL Movement	Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, editors	Book	2019
The Recognition Dimensions of Environmental Justice in Indian Country	Kyle Powys Whyte	Journal Article	2011

Settler Colonialism in Environmentalism & US Land Management

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
Charging up San Juan Hill: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America	John R. Van Atta	Journal Article	2019
"Culling the Herd": Eugenics and the Conservation Movement in the United States, 1900-1940	Garland E. Allen	Journal Article	2013
Cultural Challenges to Biotechnology: Native American Genetic Resources and the Concept of Cultural Harm	Rebecca Tsosie	Journal Article	2007
Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant	Jonathan Spiro	Book	2009
Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of National Parks	Mark David Spence	Book	1999
Environmentalism’s Racist History	Jedediah Purdy	Article	2015
Green 2.0 Environmental Diversity Initiative	Green 2.0	Nonprofit Organization	N.D.
How Green Groups Became So White and What to Do About It	Diane Toomey	Article	2018
In Which Big Game and Eugenics Go To Washington: or, Environmentalism Is Born (Part One)	VICE	Article	2012
It's Dark in Those Woods: Tracing Environmentalism to Eugenics (Part Two)	VICE	Article	2012
Nobody Asked You John Muir - Settler Colonial Environmentalism, White Supremacy, and Sustainability	Kaitlin Reed, Sarah Ray, Heather Ponchetti Daly	Video - 1 hr 17 min	2022
Pulling Down Our Monuments	Michael Brune	Article	2020
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native	Patrick Wolfe	Journal Article	2006
Settler colonialism as eco-social structure and the production of colonial ecological violence	J.M. Bacon	Article	2019
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920	Library of Congress	Timeline, Primary Sources	2002
The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation	Fred Pearce	Book	2016
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection	Dorceta Taylor	Book	2016
Under the guise of science: how the US Forest Service deployed settler colonial and racist logics to advance an unsubstantiated fire suppression agenda	Kirsten Vinyeta	Journal Article	2021
What is white supremacy?	Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Martinez	Keyword Explanation	N.D.
When Green Groups Fought Native Rights: The Timbisha Shoshone in Death Valley	Chris Clarke	Article	2017
White Supremacist Roots of American Environmentalism	Kaitlin Reed, Katie Koscielak	Video - 1 hr 13 min	2020

Decolonization

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
Coyote is not a metaphor: On decolonizing, (re)claiming and (re)naming “Coyote”	Cutcha Risling Baldy	Journal Article	2015
Decolonization is not a metaphor	Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang	Journal Article	2012
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples	Linda Tuhiwai Smith	Book	2021
Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization	Edited by Jerry Mander and Victoria Tauli-Corpuz	Book	2006
The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power	Wolfgang Sachs, editor	Book	2010
The Post-Development Reader	Majid Rahnema	Book	1997
Wanderlust and stolen land: how to mindfully explore the American outdoors	Amanda Machado	Article	2021

GIS Maps

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
Map of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Reservation - illustrative of the impacts of allotment	Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians	GIS Map	2023
Mapping Indigenous LA: Place-Making Through Digital Storytelling	Mishauna Goeman	GIS Map	2023
Place-Based Learning Communities Online Summer Immersion Story Maps	Cal Poly Humboldt	GIS Map	N.D.

Voluntary Land Taxes

LAND TAX NAME	TRIBE / NATION / ORGANIZATION
Honor Native Land Tax	Pueblo Action Alliance, The Red Nation
Manna-hatta Fund	American Indian Community House
Mni Sota Makoce Honor Tax	Lower Sioux Indian Community
Real Rent Duwamish	Duwamish Tribe
Shuumi Land Tax	Sogorea Te’ Land Trust
Wiyot Honor Tax	Wiyot Tribe
Yunakin Land Tax	Association of Ramaytush Ohlone

Educational and Research Institutes

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	ORGANIZATION TYPE
Center for World Indigenous Studies: A Think Tank of Activist Scholars	N/A	Research Organization
Indigenous Environmental Studies & Sciences	Trent University	Higher Education
Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice	University of Oregon	Higher Education
UC-CSU NXTerra: Transformative Education for Climate Action	UC Santa Barbara	Higher Education

Videos, Podcasts, and Social Media

TITLE	AUTHOR / ORIGINATOR	MEDIA TYPE	DATE CREATED
Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance	For the Wild Podcast	Podcast - 1 hr 3 min	2020
Indigenous Women Hike Instagram Account	Jolie Varela	Instagram Account	N.D.
Please Do Not Touch the Indians	Arigon Starr	Music Video - 3 min	2015
Pray For Our Planet	Blue Mountain Tribe	Music Video - 5 min	2020
"Turtle Island" - Injunuity	Vision Maker Media	YouTube Video	2013

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