Shared Resources

Read more about our presenters and their affiliations in the Event Schedule

NPR: Pre-Contact Full North American Tribal Nation Map
This map represents the original pre-contact homelands of the hundreds of Tribal Nations that existed across what is now Canada and the “lower 48″of the United States. Most of the names shown here are the indigenous antonyms that tribes use for themselves. In some cases where the original name was never recorded, other common names are used. Many tribes did not survive the invasion by Europeans , yet this map serves as a visual reminder of their memory. This is the first time for many of these tribes to ever have a place on a map.”

Invasion of America “Between 1776 and 1887, the United States seized over 1.5 billion acres from America’s indigenous people by treaty and executive order. The Invasion of America shows how by mapping every treaty and executive order during that period. It also contains present-day federal Indian reservations.”

Honor Native Land Tax Calculator

The Association for the Ramaytush Ohlone

• The ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples includes San Francisco County, San Mateo County south to Point Ano Nuevo on the Pacific coast, and the portion of Santa Clara County northwest from Cupertino.
• The Yunakin Land Tax is a financial contribution made by residents who live along the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco County, in San Mateo County, and the portion of Santa Clara County northwest from Cupertino. You can make a one time or recurring contribution.

Introduction to Ohlone + California Native Resources

Ohlone and California Native Resources from Kanyon Konsulting

• Support Kanyon via Patreon

From opening panel with Chairman Valentin Lopez of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust:

• Petitions to support protecting Juristac 
• Institutions can submit statements of support

Articles by Dr. Eduardo Duran

• Transgenerational Trauma, Soul Wounding and Effects on Families and Communities: The Impact of History on Present Day Chronic Illnesses
• Healing the American Indian Soul Wound
• Liberation Psychology as the Path Toward Healing Cultural Soul Wounds
• Medicine Wheel, Mandala, and Jung
• Story Sciencing and Analyzing the Silent Narrative Between Words: Counseling Research from an Indigenous Perspective
• Injury Where Blood Does Not Flow

Covid Relief Funds

• Muwekma COVID-19 Relief Fund All funds raised are 100% allocated to Muwekma Ohlone families who are economically struggling during this time with assistance of necessary household needs and medical care.
• Amah Mutsun COVID-19 Relief Fund Funds will be used for personal protective equipment (PPE), food, elder care, medical supplies and transportation, school-related supplies/technology for distance learning, rent assistance for those most in need.

Sogorea Te' Land Trust

Sogorea Te' Land Trust, has information about our organization, Ohlone history, and Shuumi Tax, and our "Seeding Hope," series can be found on our youtube page here: Sogorea Te' Land Trust Youtube, which features discussions with Indigenous Matriarchs from around the world, discussing a variety of topics related to Indigeneity, sacred site protection, wellness, and reciprocity. 

A few education resources are:

• · Ohlone Curriculum from East Bay Regional Parks
• · California Indian Curriculum
• · Beyond Recognition
• · Gold, Greed and Genocide
• · An American Genocide.

Protect Chi'chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat)

• Apache Stronghold Defending Holy Sites

Pantzingo Ecotourism Center & International Artist Residency at P'urhepecha lands at San Juan Nuevo Parangaricutior, Michoacán, Mexico

• Crossing Bridges
• The Mission of Crossing Bridges is reflected in that of its flagship project, Pantzingo Ecotourism Center.  Pantzingo was intentionally established as an inclusive residency, involving in its planning, implementation, interactivity, immersion, and all residency activities, Native People from within Mexico and around the world; AfroMexico and African diaspora artists from around the world; JapaneseMexico and all Asian cultures; ArabMexico & Arabic artists from around the world; LGBTQIA artists from within Mexico & around the world; artists with disabilities; senior artists; college, university, conservatory, & all other educational constituents with an interest in “convivencia” or the deep “living together” experience that is so rich a component of Latin American cultures. In short, Crossing Bridges is from its inception intentionally inclusive.

Kīpuka Kuleana

Critical Mission Studies

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2007

All My Relations Podcast

Decolonizing Wealth Project

Green Foothills

Radiation Exposure Compensation Act from Uranium Mining 

Turtle Island Indigenous Peoples restitution and land rematriation projects, a living document

The Native American Land Conservancy

Cultural Survival

• Keepers of the Earth Fund
• Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine

American Indian Cultural Center of SF

Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits

The Indigenous Curatorial Collective / Collectif

Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, support the water crisis

University of British Columbia’s Indigenous Strategic Plan

The Grandmothers Wisdom project

Decolonizing Diet Project

Indigenous Science Declaration

Indigenous Data Lab

International Indigenous Youth Council

Forum on Religion and Ecology

• Religion & Ecology newsletter 
  

 

Videos

• History of Native California
• Fighting Fire With Fire: Using Cultural Burning Practices
• Indigeneity: Decolonize Our World: Thinking With Indigenous Studies at Diablo Valley College
• "Thanks for coming, now give the land back"
• What Good is a Land Acknowledgement?
• Agriculture for life with Fernando Funes of Finca Marta Farm, Cuba

Relevant Articles, Reports, Interviews

• Tribes as trustees again (PART I): The emerging Tribal role in the conservation trust movement
• Connecting Native and Contemporary Land Trust Leaders
• We Are a Part of the Land and the Land Is Us: Settler Colonialism, Genocide & Healing in California
• What’s in a Name?: An Examination of Historians’ Reluctance to Use the Word Slavery in the Context of California Indian Genocide
• Liberating Genocide: An Activist Concept and Historical Understanding
• Relations of genocide, land and lives in the colonization of Australia
• Working for and toward Land Return of Goukdi’n (Jacoby Creek Forest)
• Court Enjoins Large-Scale Energy Project for Federal Agency's Failure to Consult Properly with Indian Tribe
• Sacred Pollinators: An Interview with Frank K. Lake
• The Problem With The Ecological Indian Stereotype
• Bay Area Native Americans Granted Property Rights to Sacred Mountain
• Returning Stolen Land to Native Tribes, One Lot at a Time

 

Books

• Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death and Ecocide by Damien Short

• As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

• Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism by Natchee Blu Barnd

• Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds by Marisol de la Cadena

• Yellow Dirt: An American Story of Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed by Judy Pasternak

• A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions, Elias Castillo

• Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West, Ned Blackhawk

• "All the Real Indians Died Off" and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, Dina Gilio Whitaker

• As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock., Dina Gilio Whitaker




 

Land and Stars, The Only Knowledge

North, West, South, and East.
Above and Below and All Around.
Within knowledge of the land,
We are existent.

Coldness and wind and the snow, northward.
Mildness and mountain and the rain, westward.
Hotness and desert and the hail, southward.
Warmness and mesa and the sun,eastward.
Starshine and sky and the darkness, upward.
Earthsource and stone and the light, downward.

By this Northern Mountain, we live.
On this Western Peak, we live.
In this Southern Canyon, we live.
Upon this Eastern Mesa, we live.
Under this Sky Above, we live.
Above this Earth Below, we live.

We are Existent within knowledge of land,
We are Existent within knowledge of stars.
All around and Below and Above
East, South, West, and North.
This is our prayer. This is our knowledge.
This is our source. This is our existence.

Always the land is with us.
Always the stars are with us.
With our hands, we know the sacred earth.
With our spirits, we know the sacred sky.
We are with the land and stars.
We are with the stars and land.

With offering, all around outside.
With offering, all around inside.
This is the knowledge we have.
This is the existence we have.
In thankfulness, we give and we know.
In thankfulness, we receive and we know.

- Simon Ortiz, 1993