Native American Heritage Month

Our Diversity Café guide has more information on the Line 3 pipeline and current Indigenous environmental activism.

This syllabus project from the NYC Stands with Standing Rock Collective places Standing Rock and water protector activism into a broader context.

"In this virtual exhibit, see for yourself how Dakota and Ojibwe treaties with the U.S. government affected the lands and lifeways of the Indigenous peoples of the place now called Minnesota and why these binding agreements between nations still matter today."

Firefighters and government agencies in California are beginning to recognize the importance of indigenous land management and fire-lighting practices.

"All 85 million acres of national-park sites should be turned over to a consortium of federally recognized tribes in the United States... The total acreage would not quite make up for the General Allotment Act, which robbed us of 90 million acres, but it would ensure that we have unfettered access to our tribal homelands. And it would restore dignity that was rightfully ours. To be entrusted with the stewardship of America’s most precious landscapes would be a deeply meaningful form of restitution."

"Protecting the [Amazon's] vast forests is vital to tackling the climate crisis and plummeting populations of wildlife, and the report found that recognising the rights of indigenous and tribal peoples to their land is one of the most cost-effective actions. The report also calls for the peoples to be paid for the environmental benefits their stewardship provides, and for funding for the revitalisation of their ancestral knowledge of living in harmony with nature."

What Native nations govern the land you live on? Learn more with this interactive map. Accompanying educational resources include teacher's guides, information on historical and present-day context, discussion questions, and more.

Explores the complexities of territory/land acknowledgements and provides links for further reading.

The Makoce Ikikcupi project, based in Minisota Makoce (Minnesota), is working to reacquire land and establish new Native communities within the ancestral territory of the Dakota. Learn more at the video above and donate through the website.

What does "Land Back" look like, and how is it taking place right now? Four case studies highlight the possibilities of this ongoing movement.

Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1).
"Our goal in this article is to remind readers what is unsettling about decolonization. Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and schools."