We Should Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day - NOT Columbus Day - Here's Your Go-To Resources

Though the first Indigenous Peoples’ Day was celebrated in the early 1990s, the idea took shape many years earlier. Here's how it began.

Some cities and states are celebrating Indigenous Peoples instead of Columbus.
"Indigenous Peoples’ Day can’t fully address the erasure of Native American history from public education on its own. But it can help bring a focus to this history in schools, where many history textbooks leave out Native Americans or sanitize white colonizer’s treatment of them. "

The Unitarian Universalist faith calls us to fully understand the legacy of Christopher Columbus, just as it calls us to respect and learn from indigenous peoples and support their struggles for social justice and religious freedom. Join Unitarian Universalists across the United States in honoring Indigenous Peoples Day.

Indigenous Peoples Day: A Handbook for Activists & Documentary History [John Curl] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. In 1992 Berkeley, California became the first city in the world to officially celebrate October 12 as Indigenous Peoples Day. This book is for people everywhere who want to know more about Indigenous Peoples Day

Teachers have the power to change the practice of celebrating Columbus
to a practice of celebrating indigenous peoples’ presence, endurance and
accomplishments. This blogger suggests how to do just that.

Finding good teaching materials for Columbus Day is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Here are 9 starting points for teachers.

Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books

The American Indian Library Association is a membership action group that works to improve library and information services for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

Everyone loves a good list but finding lists that reflect the intelligence of experts in a given field can sometimes be tricky.  Consider, if you will, books about American Indians for the kiddos.  I can’t tell you how many summer reading lists I see every year that have The Indian in the Cupboard, The Matchlock Gun, or even Rifles for Watie on them.  Just once it would be nice to see a Top 100 list of books that could serve as guidelines for folks searching for good books about indigenous peoples.

Who are your favourite Indigenous authors? We put this question forward on social media, and you came back with an extensive, compelling list.

An Inclusive Summer Reading List for Kids/Young Adults!

Welcome to the American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) Research Guide. Use the tabs above to navigate through the pages of this guide.
[For librarians and teachers, definitely check out their Native American READ posters, many translated into variety of Native languages http://guides.tulsalibrary.org/c.php?g=695443&p=4931013 ]

Conference of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums

National Museum of the American Indian - NMAI is committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of the Native cultures of the Western Hemisphere through partnership with Native people and others. The museum works to support the continuance of culture, traditional values, and transitions in contemporary Native life.

The National Congress of American Indians, founded in 1944, is the oldest, largest and most representative American Indian and Alaska Native organization serving the broad interests of tribal governments and communities.

Contents: Preface Key Terms Oceti Sakwoin Oyate Territory and Treaty Boundaries 1851-present Timeline of United States settler colonialism Readings by Theme and Topic Suggested Citation: NYC Stands with Standing Rock Collective. 2016. “#StandingRockSyllabus.” https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/.   Download: PDF version of the #StandingRockSyllabus including all readings (80MB) PDF version of the #StandingRockSyllabus without readings (<1MB)   Preface…

Our online shop features the web's premiere selection of Native American books. All books by Louise Erdrich are signed by the author. Distributor for Wiigwaas Press, publisher of award-winning books in Ojibwe.

All the Real Indians Died Off" and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans critically deconstructs persistent myths about American Indians that have taken hold in the United States. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture

2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist 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. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: "The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them." Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples' history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

Get this from a library! Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491. [Charles C Mann; Rebecca Stefoff; Downtown Bookworks Inc.] -- This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and ...

As children, most of what we learned about the Native American population of the Americas was based on what colonists and conquerors…

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