These resources are provided for the interest of people seeking to educate themselves more deeply. 

Organizations:

Upstander Project

Teaching Native American Histories

Ohketeau Cultureal Center

Lessons of Our Land- Pre K through 12 Education

Larry Spotted Crow Mann- consultant on Indigenous pedagogy

Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness

National Indian Education Association

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Education Department

Articles and Publications:

The psychosocial effects of Native American mascots: a comprehensive review of empirical research findings, by Laurel Davis-Delano, Joseph Gone, and Stephanie Fryeberg

Key Concepts for Teaching Native American Histories

Myths and Stereotypes Persist in Education

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Native American Narratives in Education – University of Virginia 

When the School Mascot is a Native American Stereotype– Xanni Brown & Michael W. Kraus (Yale Insight) 

Legislation:

Massachusetts legislative agenda on Native education

Videos:

A Native Community Conversation on Mascots, Imagery, and Cultural Appropriation

Native American Students respond to American Education 

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Relevant Articles and Publications (Online)

• For Local Native Americans, a reckoning over hurtful images goes way beyond one South Philadelphia statue by James Gammage and Maddie Hanna 
• Massachusetts Indigenous Legislative Agenda
• Amherst College Drops “Lord Jeff” as Mascot
• Chasing Toto: an Attempted Remembering of the Windsor Indian by Anne C. Wheeler PhD 

Books & Other Print Resources

• Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America by Erika Doss 
• Revisiting Pocumtuck History in Deerfield: George Sheldon’s Vanishing Indian Act by Margaret M. Bruchac 
• Deerfield History Museum presentation on the raid of Deerfield 
• MOHAWKS, MODEL Ts, AND MONUMENTS: The Formulation of an Unlikely Regional Identity in Western Massachusetts, by Robert I. Quay 

From James Young on Memorials

• The texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning by James E. Young 
• The Stages of Memory: Reflections on Memorial Art, Loss, and the Spaces Between (Public History in Historical Perspective) by James E. Young

Relevant Articles and Publications (Online)

• Detmold. David. “Montague Makes Plans for a Native American Park.” The Montague Reporter. 15 April 2010. 1, 9, 13.
• Hingston, Sandy. 20 Local Native American Place Names and What They Mean: Moyamensing? Shackamaxon? Conshohocken? What the world looked like to the Lenape when they lived here. PhillyMag. 12 October 2015.
• Hingston, Sandy. 20 More Local Native American Place Names and What They Mean: From Absecon to Manasquan to Wingohocking, more of what the world looked like to the Lenni Lenape. PhillyMag. 22 October 2015.
• Josuweit, Bob. Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Church at Wicaco, Southwark, Philadelphia. HGDPC: Historic Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Preservation Corporation. 9 March 2015
• Roy, Kathryn. “UMass to host annual Native American Powwow.” The Republican. 16 April 2015. Weekend edition. E11. [N.B. The approved spelling is pow wow, not powwow.]
• Statement on the Indigenous Heritage of the Land on which Amherst College and the Five Colleges Reside. Comp. Bixie Eutsler ’20 and Ian Miller ’19. For Manuela Picq’s class Indigenous Women in World Politics. nd [13 June 2018
• Welburn, Ron. “Theorizing Native Studies in the Northeast,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 33.4 2009): 69–89.

Books & Other Print Resources

• After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England. Ed. By Colin G. Calloway. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College/UP of New England, 1997. See: Thomas L. Doughton, “Unseen Neighbors: Native Americans of Central Massachusetts: A People Who Had ‘Vanished’.” 207–30.
• Brooks, Lisa. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010.
• Historic Deerfield. Vol. 18, autumn 2020. Special Pocumtuck issue
• Mann, Larry Spotted Crow. The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving. Marble, NC: Word Branch Publishing, 2014. (Fiction)
• Mann, Larry Spotted Crow. Tales from the Whispering Basket. Amazon, 2011. (Stories)
• O’Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010.
• Welburn, Ron. Hartford’s Ann Plato and the Native Borders of Identity (SUNY Press, 2015).
• Welburn, Ron. “A Most Secret Identity: Native American Assimilation and Identity Resistance in African America.” In Confounding the Color-Line: The Indian-Black Experience in America. Ed. James Brooks (U of Nebraska P, 2002): 292–320.

These resources are provided for the interest of people seeking to educate themselves more deeply. 

Articles and Publications

• Greed Does Not Have to Define Our Relationship to Land, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Rights of the Land, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Guide to Honoring Native Land, U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
• Historic Land Loss among Native Americans: What Land Trusts Need to Know Before Partnering with Native American Tribes and Nations
• Doctrine of Discovery
• Finding Balance at the Speed of Trust, by Peter Forbes
• The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Indigenous Geographies, Indigenizing the News

Maps

• Map of Native Lands

Organizations

• Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust
• First Light Learning Journey
• List of Native American Land Trusts
• Native Land Conservancy
  
• Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective

Podcasts

• The Land is Text, by Jessica Dolan
• This Land, a podcast series by Crooked Media

Reading Groups and Resource Lists

• Yale Forests Reading Group
• First Light’s Resource List

Videos

• Mark Charles on The Doctrine of Discovery

These resources are provided for the interest of people seeking to educate themselves more deeply. 

Books

• Firsting and lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England, by Jean M. O’Brien
• “Drumming and Dreaming” and “The Mourning Road to Thanksgiving,” by Larry Spotted Crow Mann

Websites

• Essays, articles, and other projects by Hassanamisco Nipmuc Nation Chief Cheryll Toney Holley
• Guide to Honoring Native Land, U.S Department of Arts and Culture
• Nipmuc Place Names of Massachusetts
• Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut
• Larry Spotted Crow Mann
• Okheteau Cultural Council

Reading Lists

• 108 Books Written by Indigenous Authors

Publications and Essays

• The myth of Native American extinction harms everyone, by Mali Obomsawin
• Contested places: The history and meaning of Hassanamisco By Donna Rae Gould
• Nipmuc History, by Lee Sultzman
• Four Generations of Nipmuc History, Fisker Center
• The false narratives, invisibility, and the erasure of Native peoples must end, by Crystal Echo Hawk
• Changing the Narrative about Native People: A Guide for Allies, Reclaiming Native Truth Research Findings

Videos

• Destroy to Replace: What Twenty-first Century Resistance Means to American Indians with Kathleen Brown-Perez, UMass Amherst
• Alexis Bunten and Danielle Hill – Mashpee Discussion
• Reclaiming Native Truth

Podcasts

• Words matter: How do we begin to acknowledge Brattleboro, Vermont as an Indigenous place? by Jessica Dolan
• The Land is Text, By Jessica Dolan
• “Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England,” Interview with Jean O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe Nation) on Indigenous Politics from Native New England and Beyond, a radio program hosted by J. Kehaulani Kauanui
• Keeping The Native Nipmuc Language Alive, by Arun Wrath for NPR

These resources are provided for the interest of people seeking to educate themselves more deeply. 

Books

• Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Phillip’s War, by Lisa Brooks
• The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast, by Lisa Brooks
• The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation by Laurence M. Hauptman and James D. Wherry
  (Free download when going to the link)
• King Philip’s War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty, and Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780–1880 , by Daniel R. Mandell
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann
• Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Book lists

• Kim-Wait/Eisenberg Collection at Amherst College: This collection of Native American Literature comprises nearly 1500 volumes written by Indigenous writers, from the 1700s to the 21st century — including tribal histories, religious tracts, biographies and memoirs, fiction, poetry, drama, and historical and political writings. It includes nearly 600 volumes of nonfiction and almost 900 volumes of literary work. Click here to view the collection’s digitized volumes that are freely available online.
• American Indians in Children’s Literature (AICL): AICL provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children’s and young adult books.

Websites

• Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Phillip’s War Online Reader Companion, by Lisa Brooks
• The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Online Reader Companion, by Lisa Brooks
• Historic Northampton’s Indigenous History of the Connecticut River Valley Part 1 and Part 2
• Nipmuc Nation’s History and Tribal Website
• Springfield-Agawam Indigenous Land Acknowledgement

Essays and Other Publications

• Native Presence in Nonotuck and Northampton, by Margaret Bruchac
• Decolonizing New England Indian History, by Colin G. Galloway and Neal Salisbury
• The Legal Decision of Denying the Nipmuc Tribe Recognition from the U.S Government with history of Southern New England Indigenous peoples.
• Tracing Indigenous Lives: Through, Around and at Amherst College by The Amherst Student Editorial Board
• Lord Jeffery Amherst, the town namesake who attempted a Native American genocide
• Earthshapers and Placemakers: Algonkian Indian Stories and the Landscape, by Margaret Bruchac
• Stories, Language, and the Land, by Cheryl Savageau

Videos and Talks

• “Who Are the Abenaki?: Past, Present, and Future” with Don Stevens, Chief of the Nulhegan Band of the Abenaki, Elnu Abenaki artist, scholar Melody Walker Brook, and Nulhegan Abenaki singer/songwriter Bryan Blanchette
• The History of Springfield, MA and King Phillip’s War
• Turner’s Falls, MA and the King Phillip’s War
• “Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast” with Rae Gould and Christine DeLucia
• Beloved Kin and Memory Lands with Lisa Brooks and Christine DeLucia
• Amherst Reads Our Beloved Kin with Lisa Brooks

Radio and Podcasts

• ‘1491’ Explores the Americas Before Columbus: NPR Interview with Charles C. Mann