Resources on Land Acknowledgement and Indigenous Narratives:
1) App with maps and info on historical Indigenous lands: https://native-land.ca/
2) Things to think about when writing a land acknowledgement – Debbie Reese’s blog: https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2019/03/are-you-planning-to-do-land.html
3) More tips on land acknowledgements: https://native-land.ca/resources/territory-acknowledgement/
4) From Claudia Fox Tree’s “with gratitude”: Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer5) Bedford residents will meet at Annual Town Meeting on May 15th to vote to change the second Monday of October from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. To learn more, visit: http://www.ipdbedford.org/
Resources on U.S. Race and Systemic Racism:
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High, by Melba Patilllo Beals (memoir appropriate for middle/high school)
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Resources on Racial Identity:
1) Poems read and discussed in the session:
“When I Was Growing Up” by Nellie Wong, and “Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Indians” by Dennis Banks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4-bb7U8mE
2) Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (20th anniversary edition)
3) Jennifer Harvey, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
4) Black Racial/Cultural Identity Development, by William Cross
5) White Racial Identity Development, by Janet Helms
Parenting and Teaching resources:
Jennifer Harvey, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
Bettina Love, We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational FreedomGrace Lin, TED Talk – The Windows and Mirrors of your Child’s Bookshelf – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wQ8wiV3FVo