November is Native American Heritage Month

 Learn More about Indigenous, and First Nations  
Learning Resources

In honor of Native American, Indigenous, and First Nations people and communities, we invite and urge you to learn more. This resource page is a starting place and is not an exhaustive resource. Additional resources will be added over time. We welcome everyone's input. If you wish to include a resource or have concerns about resources already included, please contact us.

Land Acknowledgment

• Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land

• A guide to Indigenous land acknowledgment

• Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite – erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead

Reading lists (nonfiction, fiction, poetry)

• Books (firstnations.org)

• Honoring Indigenous Peoples: 20 Recommended Reads

• 14 Contemporary Books By Native American Writers To Get Excited About

• 31 Best Native American Authors to Read in 2021

Articles

• American Indian Health Policy: historical trends and contemporary issues

• Working Upstream

• Wednesday Addams is Just Another Settler

• ​​#MMIW: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

• Addressing the Epidemic of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

• How States Are Addressing the Missing Indigenous Women Crisis

• Native Americans: A Crisis in Health Equity

• Native Americans Feel Invisible In U.S. Health Care System

• Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence, Reproductive Coercion, and Reproductive Health Among American Indian and Alaska Native Women: A Narrative Interview Study

Websites and Presentations

• MMIW — Native Women's Wilderness

• Distrust - A Barrier to Health Care for Native American Patients

• Native Voices: Native People's Concepts of Health and Illness

• Native American Organizations | Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Podcasts

• This Land

• Finding Cleo

Nonfiction Reading

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

• They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars

• Carry by Toni Jensen

• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer

• Spirits of the Earth by Bobby Lake-Thom

• The Scalpel and the Silver Bear by Lori Alvord and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt

• The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall, III

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• The Science of the Sacred by Nicole Redvers

• Decolonizing Trauma Work by Renee Linklater

• Medicine Unbundled by Gary Geddes

Fiction/Poetry by Native/Indigenous Authors

• There There by Tommy Orange

• The Grass Dancer by Susan Power

• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

• The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

• The Roundhouse by Louise Erdrich

• https://www.joyharjo.com/