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• We Are Water Protectors

  Lindstrom, Carole, 1964-

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  "Water is the first medicine. It affects and connects us all... When a black snake threatens to destroy the Earth and poison her people's water, one young water protector takes a stand to defend Earth's most sacred resource. Inspired by the many…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• By the Fire We Carry

  the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land

  Nagle, Rebecca,

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  "A powerful work of reportage and American history in the vein of Caste and How the Word Is Passed that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• As Long as Grass Grows

  the Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock

  Gilio-Whitaker, Dina,

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  "The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community's rich history of activism Through the unique lens of "Indigenized environmental…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book

  Hill, Gord,

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  "A new and expanded version of Gord Hill's seminal illustrated history of Indigenous struggles in the Americas. When it was first published in 2010, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Living Resistance

  An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

  Curtice, Kaitlin B.,

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  "In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall,

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  "As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our History Is the Future

  Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

  Estes, Nick,

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  "In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  "Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Land Is Their Land

  the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

  Silverman, David J., 1971-

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  "Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Way We Lived

  California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences

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  "Ranging from love songs to death chants, legends to oral histories, The Way We Lived captures the vitality and continuance of native culture in California. Includes dozens of historic photographs." - provided by publisher