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April

Land & Environment

 

Throughout the year, history teachers can include Native American perspectives when discussing geography and nature. It is especially relevant in April, as it is traditionally the month for planting.

Science and Geography:

  • Democracy Now "'We Are Not Anti-Science': Why Indigenous Protectors Oppose the Thirty Meter Telescope at Mauna Kea"

  • UNESCO: Local and Indigenous Knowledge

  • Life Science Article "Why 'Denali?' Explaining Mount McKinley's New (Old) Name"

Traditional Ecological Knowledge

  • Gedakina, Native American Experiential Outdoor Education and Leadership Development

  • PBS, "Meet the Three Sisters Who Sustain Native America"

  • Bioarchaeology, DNA, and Indigeneity from the The Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) research project

Food Sovereignty

  • Native Food Systems Resource Center

  • From Garden Warriors to Good Seeds

  • "Indigenous Seed Sovereignty" From the Sierra Seeds Website

Environmental Issues

  • Katsi Cook’s Interview  transcript on the Mother’s Milk Project

  • Indian Country Today "Kill the Land, Kill the People: There Are 532 Superfund Sites in Indian Country!"

  • The Guardian "Bikini Atoll nuclear test: 60 years later and islands still unliveable"

  • "'I Didn’t Come Here to Lose': How a Movement Was Born at Standing Rock" Mother Jones Article

  • The Superfund Research Program: Indigenous Risk Assessment
     

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