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Resources

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National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Boardingschoolhealing.org

 

The Center for Native American Youth

Www.cnayinfo@aspeninstitute.org

The Onondaga Nation https://www.onondaganation.org/aboutus/

 

Ganondagan State Historic Site https://ganondagan.org/

 

The Tonawanda Reservation Historical Society https://tonawandareservationhistoricalsociety.wordpress.com/about/

 

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The Digital Wampum Series: 8 short, testimonial films on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), including We are the Haudenosaunee, Where the Willows Meet the Waters (Lake Onondaga), and Value Change for Survival  https://www.digitalwampum.org/ 

 

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2013) by Robin Wall Kimmerer (enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation) https://www.robinwallkimmerer.com/books 

 

The Good Mind (2016), directed by Gwendolen Cates https://www.thegoodmindfilm.com/ 

 

Connections with Evan Dawson: Discussing the film “The Good Mind,” and Native American land rights (Nov. 16, 2018)

 

The Iroquoits’ Quest to Compete in the Olympic Lacrosse: “It’s more than a game to us.” Wayne Drehs, National Geographic (Nov. 17, 2020) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/iroquois-quest-to-compete-olympic-lacrosse-more-than-game-to-us

 

The Memorial Art Gallery: The Art of G. Peter Jemison (Seneca, Heron Clan), March 12, 2021–November 7, 2021 https://mag.rochester.edu/exhibitions/the-art-of-g-peter-jemison/ 

 

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Steward 1934 Map of Denonville Raid of Ganondagan, 1687: https://www.longhousepodcast.com/uploads/8/5/4/3/8543993/map-of-denonville-raid-1687_orig.jpg.

 

Preston 1780s and Porter 1794 Gorham and Phelps’ Purchase Maps: https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/exhibits/show/maps-meliora/phelps-gorham

 

Rochester Area Historical Maps, collected and geo-referenced by Blair Tinker https://urochester.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8171556dd2dc44b681546af95af9958b

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Custer Died For Your Sins by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Our History is the Future by Nick Estes

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Nature’s Way, Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth by Ed McGaa, Eagle Man

Trail of Tears, the Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle

The Body Keeps the Score, Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

The Girl in the Photograph, The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America by Senator Bryon L. Dorgan

Parker on the Iroquois by Arthur C. Parker

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Information on Boarding Schools

http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=airc_hist_boardingschools 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/a-century-of-trauma-at-boarding-schools-for-native-american-children-in-the-united-states 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAzggmes8c 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCK_3NDEodg 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDshQTBh5d4 

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