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• ALL ARTS Artist in Residence | Realms of Resilience (AD, CC) | Season 2024 | Episode 2 | PBS

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  Dakota artist Marlena Myles employs augmented reality and digital tech to unveil hidden Indigenous connections with the natural world, sharing enduring stories that inspire strength, hope and love for future generations.

• Dreaming Our Futures

  Ojibwe and Očȟthi Ša̤kwiK Artists and Knowledge Keepers

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  "'Dreaming Our Futures' features twenty-nine Native painters, primarily Dakota and Ojibwe, who live in the Upper Midwest region or have family or tribal connections there. The artists represent a range of generations, professional experience, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Revitalizing Indigenous Astronomy

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• Exploring Dakota Lands and Waters

  View on bigriverjourneyonline.org

• Our Home: Native Minnesota

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  The Minnesota Historical Society has a standing exhibit about native communities in Minnesota. "This exhibit shares their stories, enduring presence, and deep connection to the land." The website features interviews and short films as well as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sacred Minnesota | Water Links Dakota Sacred Sites at Bdote | Season 2 | TPT

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  On Dakota homeland, sacred sites connected by water make up the Bdote sacred landscape. The Twin Cities area—and all of southern Minnesota—is Dakota homeland. A series of sites along the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers form a sacred landscape the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Are Here: Stories of People, Place & the Past - Bdote: A Birthing Island - Twin Cities PBS

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  Bdote: A Birthing Island explores the Dakota connection to Bdote through history and resilience.

• Bdote Memory Map

  View on bdotememorymap.org

• Sovereignty and Native Governance

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  Native Governance Center is a Native-led nonprofit working to strengthen Native nations’ sovereignty in Mni Sota Makoce, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

• How to Talk about Native Nations: A Guide - Native Governance Center

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  Using appropriate terminology to talk about Native nations shows respect for nations’ sovereignty. It also contributes toward Native narrative change. Because language is so important (and we’ve received so many great questions about it from our…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask

  Revised and Expanded

  Treuer, Anton

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  A revised and updated edition of a modern classic offers answers to nearly 200 essential and thought-provoking questions about the Native people of North America. What have you always wanted to know about Indians? Do you feel like you should already…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Why Treaties Matter

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  A virtual exhibit about the various treaties with the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples that explores their connection with the land, native sovereignty, broken promises, treaty rights, the evolution of modern tribal government, and why treaties continue to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Teacher and Educator Resources

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• American Apartheid

  the Native American Struggle for Self-determination and Inclusion

  Woodard, Stephanie,

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  "... American Apartheid offers the most comprehensive and compelling account of the issues and threats that Native Americans face today, as well as their heroic battle to overcome them. Stephanie Woodard details the ways in which the government…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Searching for Savanna

  the Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

  Gable, Mona,

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  "In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after she disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Reclaiming Two-spirits

  Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, & Sovereignty in Native America

  Smithers, Gregory D., 1974-

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  "A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender and sexuality that decolonizes North America's past and reveals how Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations"-- Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U. S. History

  Blackhawk, Ned,

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  A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America. (Novelist)

• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  Challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the indigenous peoples was genocidal and imperialist, designed to crush the original inhabitants. Spanning more than 300 years, a classic bottom-up history significantly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Afro-indigenous History of the United States

  Mays, Kyle T.

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  The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Native Nations

  a Millennium in North America

  DuVal, Kathleen,

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  An award-winning historian tells the story of the Native nations, from the rise of ancient cities to the present, reframing North American history with Indigenous power and sovereignty at its center and showing how the influence of Native peoples…Read moreRead more of this annotation