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Read, Watch, Listen Resources Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

We invite you to view the list of our Read, Watch, & Listen Resources, celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, below. The Chapter's Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB) Committee, will continue to push resources, addressing issues to help you reflect and assist in your own self-growth whether it's in celebration of Black History Month, Women's History Month, Pride, Juneteenth or a day that ends in y! Some are quick reads or listens and others can be viewed at your convenience.

As you view the resources, reflect and answer "How do these make you feel? Why do you think you feel this way?"

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Watch Resources

Watch:

The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for indigenous rights Tara Houska’s 2017 TEDWomen Talk.
Tribal attorney and Couchiching First Nation citizen Tara Houska chronicles the history of attempts by government and industry to eradicate the legitimacy of Indigenous people's land and culture.
Length: ~ 11 minutes

Native Re-appropriations: An interview with Adrianne Keene, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Center of the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and Anthropology at Brown University.
Length: ~ 8 minutes

Reservation Dogs
Series on Hulu (mature audience programming)
follows the lives of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma, as they spend their days committing crime and fighting it. After the death of their friend Daniel one year prior to the events of the series, the gang wrestles with a desire to move to California, the way Daniel dreamed of doing.

The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Film on Netflix
The film centers on a chance interaction between two Indigenous women of contrasting lived experience and socio-economic position, Áila and Rosie, as they navigate the effects of intimate partner violence. The majority of the film consists of a single, continuous long take.

Basketball or Nothing
Series Netflix
Netflix docuseries highlights a Navajo high school basketball team.

Spirit Rangers
Series on Netflix (Kids programming: Ages 3-7)
Follows Native American sibling trio Kodiak, Summer and Eddy Skycedar, who have a shared secret - they're "Spirit Rangers” who protect the national park that they call home.

Listen Resources

Listen:

Native Americans Discuss Columbus Day and Issues Plaguing Their Tribes
Discussion on The Breakfast Club radio show
Length: ~ 25 mins

12 Great Podcasts hosted by Indigenous Women
A variety of stories and perspectives
Length: Varies

Unrooted Podcast
Unrooted is a podcast by The Indigenous Foundation, focused on centring Indigenous voices and stories.
Length: Varies

Indigenous Peoples Day is Every Day: CBC Reclaimed
Songs from Indigenous voices across genres & communities.
Length: Varies

Raven Chacon (Voiceless Mass)
First Native American composer to win Pulitzer Prize for music in 2022
Length: ~ 2 minutes

Reading Resources

Read:

The Thanksgiving Tale
The Thanksgiving Tale We Tell Is a Harmful Lie. As a Native American, I've Found a Better Way to Celebrate the Holiday by Sean Sherman, founder and CEO of The Sioux Chef and the author of The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen.

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
The Nightwatchman is based on the extraordinary life of Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.

Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet Across Indian Country by Marisa Duarte
Marisa Duarte examines ICT projects to explore the significance of information flows and information systems to Native sovereignty, and toward self-governance, self-determination, and decolonization.

In Wahpepah’s Kitchen
Chef Crystal Wapepahs restaurant in Oakland – first Native American chef on Food Network’s, Chopped.