Community Reads

WEEK 1:  Building and Maintaining Community

READING: Khan Academy.  Comparing European and Native American Cultures.  (7:08 min.)    Video & Transcript

WEEK 2:  LGBTQ+ Identity through an AI-AN Perspective

READINGS: 

• For many Native Americans, embracing LGBT members is a return to the past. Washingtonpost.com, 29 Mar. 2019.

• Perspectives on LGBTQ Native Americans in Traditional Culture. Pride Month 2020.  Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. 16 June 2020. (Last minute addition, if you have time to read this article, great, if not, do not let that stop you from joining us.)

ADDITIONAL READINGS: 

• For Two Spirits: An Opportunity To Reclaim Acceptance Across Indian Country  (Audio)

• LGBTQ American: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History. (2016) 

• Two Spirits, dir. by Lydia Nibley (2011)  (DVD)  Marriott Library ARC Click Request: DVD & Blu-Ray   E98 .S48 T9 2009  

• Two Spirit - Injunuity, by Vision Maker Media (Video - 4 min)

• Works by:

  • Wesley Thomas

    • Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality  (1997)

  • Sabine Lang

    • Men as women, women as men : changing gender in Native American cultures  (1998)

  • Will Roscoe

    • Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology   Marriott Library   Level 1: General Collection   PS509.H57 L58 1988 

    • Changing ones : third and fourth genders in Native North America   Marriott Library   Level 2: General Collection   E98.S48 R67 1998  

• Statistical Sources

  • 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey: Report on the Experiences of American Indian and Native Alaskan Respondents.  National Center for Transgender Equality.  [28 pgs]

  • A Spotlight on Two Spirit (Native LGBT) Communities (Fall 2015).  National Congress of American Indians.   [7 pgs]    Also see their publications page:  http://www.ncai.org/policy-research-center/research-data/prc-publications/

WEEK 3:  Anti-Racism and Native Communities

Please select at least 1 item - whether it is an article you read, a book you fully or at least start to read, or a book you read, a podcast you listen to, a film or show you watch - to learn from and then discuss at our July 7th session.

• Resource lists with multiple options to choose from:

  • U of U EDI Unit's Anti-Racism Resource List

  • EHSL Anti-Racism Resource LibGuide

  • AntiRacistResources.com

  • Harvard Center for Public Leadership's Anti-Racism and Resilience Resources

  • Brené Brown Anti-Racism Resources

• Articles

  • Introduction to the Politics of Anti-Racism Education: In Search of Strategies for Transformative Learning

  • Indigenous Peoples and Black People in Canada: Settlers of Allies?  pp. 105-136 in

    Breaching the Colonial Contract : Anti-Colonialism in the US and Canada. 

  • Building resilience in the face of racism: options for anti-racism strategies

  • Racism, disadvantage and multiculturalism: towards effective anti-racist praxis

• Books

  • One Drop of Blood:  The American Misadventure of Race by Scott Malcolmson

  • That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia by Arica L. Coleman

• Online Guide

  • Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian's IndiVisible: African Native American Lives in the Americas

WEEK 4: Impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous Communities

READING: The Navajo Nation and Coronavirus: Planting Hope Amid a Plague: Older generations on the Navajo Nation have passed down stories of scourges, resilience — and survival. New generations are bringing the tales to life.  By Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi  The author of this week's reading, Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, will be joining our discussion.

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED READINGS:

• All My Relations podcast

  • 4/29/20 episode “Growing New Beginnings”

• Harvard Medical School Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership

  • Equity and Social Justice Webinar: Native American Health and COVID-19

• American Medical Association

  • COVID-19 Update: April 30, 2020 – impact of COVID-19 on Native Americans and the unique challenges physicians face in caring for this population

ADDITIONAL STATISTICAL RESOURCES and READING LISTS:

AI/AN Population with COVID-19 - National Indian Health Board [NIHB]

• Tribal Data Project Visualizations. 

COVID-19 Resources for Indigenous Peoples [Arizona State University LibGuide]  - note that some resources are Arizona specific

• Health Statistics & Data (including statistics from: Tribal Epidemiology Centers)

• Indigenous Resilience

• Native News

• Parental Resources

• and more ...

WEEK 5: Relationships between Tribal Nations and U.S. Federal & State Governments

READING: 

• Landmark Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Native American Rights in Oklahoma [July 9, 2020]  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/us/supreme-court-oklahoma-mcgirt-creek-nation.html

• After a Trail of Tears Justice for Indian Country  [July 14, 2020]  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/opinion/mcgirt-oklahoma-muscogee-creek-nation.html