RESOURCES
Welcome to our listing of relevant Books, Youtube videos, Films, Teachers & Websites - many of which were reviewed by LINK members. (Feel free to scroll through to find your areas of interest and start there. We’ll continue to update as we go forward.)
The resources are divided into the following categories:
1) Indigenous Wisdom/Ways of Knowing.
2) Wampanoag History/Culture (including a section on Thanksgiving) and General Indigenous History/Culture/Fiction
3) Building Sovereignty
4) Native Activism/Influence
5) Intergenerational Trauma
6) The Land: Relation/Protection/Rites of Nature
7) Films
8) Other Resources (including Museums)
Indigenous Wisdom/Ways of Knowing
Brave Heart, Basil and Giovale, Hilary, Conversation with Oglála Lakȟóta Elder Basil Brave Heart: Part 1 (2021) (article). https://bioneers.org/conversation-with-oglala-lakota-elder-basil-brave-heart-part-1-zmbz2108/
Brave Heart, Basil and Giovale, Hilary, Conversation with Oglála Lakȟóta Elder Basil Brave Heart: Part 2 (2021) (article). https://bioneers.org/conversation-with-oglala-lakhota-elder-basil-brave-heart-part-2-zmbz2108/
Deloria, Vine, The World We Used to Live In (2006) (Book)
Jamail, Dahr & Rushworth, Stan (Editors), We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (2022) (Book)
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, Gathering Moss (2003) (Book)
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, Braiding Sweetgrass (2013) (Book)
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, The Serviceberry: Abundance & Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024) (Book)
Krawec, Patty, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (2022) (Book)
Merculieff, Ilararion, Alaskan Native elder: (Youtube)
Google Talks: Mother Earth Speaks (2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHCs-wueU-4 ; The Womb at the Center of the Universe (2014): https://youtube.com/watch?v=rycqVPANBKQ
Mitchell, Sherri, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change (2018) (Book)
Mitchell, Sherri, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-based Change (2018) (Youtube)
Nelson, Melissa, editor, Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008) (Book)
Peat, David (Editor), The Pari Dialogues, Volume 2: Essays in Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science (2013) (Book)
Spencer, Paula Underwood, A Native American Worldview (from Noetic Sciences Review Summer 1990) (pdf) https://www.scribd.com/20699341/A-Native-American-Worldview-Paula-Underwood-Spencer
Wildcat, Dan: Returning Ancient Wisdom to the Earth Sciences (Youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOuklvTq9qA (2022)
Wahinkpe, Topa (Four Arrows), DOMINATOR AND INDIGENOUS WORLDVIEW MANIFESTATIONS (website chart)
Wahinkpe, Topa (Four Arrows) & Narvaez, Darcie, Ph.D., Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth (2022) (Book)
Yunkaporta, Tyson, Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World (2021) (Book)
Wampanoag History/Culture/Fiction
Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah Cultural Center. https://aquinnah.org (website)
Avant, Joan, People of the First Light: Wisdoms of a Mashpee Wampanoag Elder (2010). (Book - available at library)
Tribute to Joan Tavares Avant on her 85th birthday, (4/25). (Article) https://www.calliremillard.com/the-mashpee-enterprise/2025/4/18/in-celebration-of-a-mashpee-legend-editorial
Baird, Jessie Little Doe, “We Still Live Here” (2011) (Film) https:www.dailymotion.com/video/x3h1myn
Brooks, Lisa, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (2018) (Book)
Coombs, Linda, Colonization and the Wampanoag Story (2023) (Book)
Darius Coombs: Wampanoag Life Ways (2019) (YouTube)
Greendeer, Natana Hicks, Ph.D., Wampanoag History and Culture - A Community Workshop with Nitana Hicks Greendeer, PhD at Marine Biological Laboratory (2022) (Youtube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dynLfYZPsm4&t=17s
Heath, Dwight B. (editor), “A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth: Mourt’s Relation” 1622. (1963) (Book)
Lee, Joseph, Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power and the Search for Indigenous Identity (2025) (Book)
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal News (website)
Mashpee Wampanoag Native Environmental Ambassadors. https://mashpeewampanoageducation.org/native-environmental-ambassadors/ (website)
Manitonquat (Medicine Story), The Original Instructions: Reflections of an Elder on the Teachings of the Elders, Adapting Ancient Wisdom to the Twenty-First Century (2009) (Book)
Mills Sr., Earl & Mann, Alicia, Son of Mashpee - Reflections of Chief Flying Eagle, A Wampanoag (1996) (Book)
Mills, Sr., Earl & Breen, Betty, Cape Cod Wampanoag Cookbook: Wampanoag Indian Recipes, Images and Lore (2001) (Book)
Mills Sr., Earl, Talking with the Elders of Mashpee: Memories of Earl H. Mills, Sr. (2012) (Book)
Mwalim, A Mixed Medicine Bag: Original Black Wampanoag Folklore. (2007) (Book)
Peters, Paula - SmokeSygnals, “Our Story” Four Hundred Years of Wampanoag History https://www.plymouth400inc.org/OurStory. (Website)
Peters, Paula, Baxter Lecture: 400 Years Of Wampanoag History, GBH Forum Network. (2021) (Youtube)
Peters, Russell, “The Wampanoags of Mashpee: An Indian Perspective on American History”, (1987) (Book - available at library)
Roscoe, Lee, Wampanoag Art for the Ages, Traditional and Transitional (2022) (Book)
Wopanaak Language Project (website)
Teachers (google individuals for more information): Joan Tavares Avant, Jessie Little Doe Baird, Darius Coombs, Linda Coombs, gkisedtanamoogk, Earl Mills Sr., Paula Peters, Ramona Peters
Thanksgiving
Frank B. James - The Suppressed Speech Of Wamsutta, Wampanoag, to have been delivered at Plymouth, Massachusetts, (1970) https://www.uaine.org/suppressed_speech.htm
Greendeer, Perry & Bunten, Keepunumuk: Weeachumun’s Thanksgiving Story (2022) (Book)
Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address (article) https://americanindian.si.edu/environment/pdf/01_02_thanksgiving_address.pdf
11 Ways to Relearn Thanksgiving and to Honor Native Peoples in 2025 (article) https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/11-ways-relearn-thanksgiving-and-honor-native-peoples-2025
Lyla June Johnston - The Truth of Thanksgiving (2019) (Youtube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vHVxr7txqU&t=37s
Thanksgiving Through Native Eyes, Mashpee TV (2021) (Youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zRW36O5bY
The Wampanoag Legacy: Critical Backstory to the First Thanksgiving - EcoJustice Radio (2025) (podcast) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FynqG9v-lhk
General Indigenous History/Culture
Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project https://www.navajostrong.org/copy-of-diné-creators
Blackhawk, Ned, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (2023) (Book)
Boulley, Angeline, Firekeeper’s Daughter. (2021) (Book)
Boulley, Angeline, Warrior Girl Unearthed. (2023) (Book)
Brooks, Lisa, The Common Pot (2008) (Book)
Brown, Dee, Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (2007) (Book)
Charles, Mark R. And Rah, Soong-Chan, Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery (2019) (Book)
Clarren, Rebecca, The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance (2023) (Book)
Crash Course Native American History (Youtube) https:youtube.com/watch?v=FgyEljQ0cr4
Dimaline, Cherie, Hunting By Stars. (2021) (Book)
Dimaline, Cherie, The Marrow Thieves (2017) (Book)
Doctrine Of Discovery repudiated by Catholic church 3/30/23 (article)
Dunlap, Louise, Inherited Silence (2022) (Book)
Eustace, Nicole, Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America (2021) (Book)
Harjo, Joy, US Poet Laurate 1919 to present. See “Ceremony”
Hawk, Shane & Van Alst Jr., Theodore C. (Editors) Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (2023) (Book)
Huerta, Liz. The Lost Dreamer. (2022) (Book)
Indian Termination Policy: Wikipedia
Jones, Stephen Graham, The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong (2000) (Book)
Mann, Charles C., 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (2006) (Book)
Matthews, John Joseph, Sundown (1934) (Book)
Maria Popova: The Woman Who Saved Native Song (2022) (article)
Moberg, Kim, musician, The Seven Fires Prophecy, kimmobergmusic.com (website)
Nesteroff, Kliph, We Had A Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy (2021) (Book)
Noisecat, Julian Brave, We Survived the Night, (2025) (Book)
Russell Means talks about women/matriarchy, the balance (2010) (Youtube)
Orange, Tommy, There, There (2018) (Book)
Orange, Tommy, Wandering Stars (2024) (Book)
Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar, An Indigenous People’s History of the US (2014) (Book)
David Peat: Description of Native American Talking Circle (pdf)
Quigley, Dawn, Red Bird Danced (2024) (Book)
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017) (Film - Music ) (available on Amazon Prime)
Robinson, Eden, Son of a Trickster. (2017) (Book)
Senier, Siobhan, Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England (ed 2014) (Book)
Companion to Dawnland Voices (2014) (Book)
Silko, Leslie Marmon, Gardens in the Dunes (1999) (Book)
Spears, endawnis, Carrying Kinship: Indigenous Cradleboards, Community, and Survivance (2022) (Youtube)
Taffa, Deborah Jackson, Whiskey Tender (2024) (Book)
Talty, Morgan, Night of the Living Rez. (2022) (Book)
Tougias, Michael J., Until I Have No Country: A Novel of the King Phillips War in New England (1996) (Book)
Treisman, Rachel, Native Americans seized Wounded Knee 50 years ago. Here’s what 1 reporter remembers (2023) article https://www.npr.org/2023/02/27/1159630250/wounded-knee-occupation-50th-anniversary
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection (2010) (Book)
Valandra, Edward, Colorizing Restorative Justice (2020). (Book)
“Visions of Indigenous Futures”. https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2023/04/28/indigenous-photographer-native-america
Wallis, Velma, Two Old Women (1993) (Book)
Wilson, Diane, The Seed Keeper (2021) (Book)
Teachers (google individuals for more information): Lyla June Johnston, Pat McCabe, Sherri Mitchell
Building Sovereignty
Bioneers, https://bioneers.org/indigeneity-program/ (website).
Indigeneity: a Native-led Program within Bioneers https://bioneers.org/category/indigeneity/?type=&query=#rm (media that is indigenous centered).
Bridge, Gwen: Rising Voices webinar: Building Relational and Effective Partnerships with Indigenous Communities (2022) (Youtube - start at 38:00)
Colorado, Apela, Woman Between the Worlds, A Call to Your Ancestral and Indigenous Wisdom (2021) (Book)
Giovale, Hilary, Becoming A Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing and Repair (2025) (Book)
Hager, Shirley & Mawopiyane, The Gatherings, Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations (2021) (Book)
Johnston, Lyla June, https://www.rehuman.earth/ Plus 2 permissions for website materials
Johnston, Lyla June, Reclaiming Our Indigenous European Roots (2019) (article) https://moonmagazineeditor.medium.com/lyla-june-reclaiming-our-indigenous-european-roots-64685c7fc960
The Lakota People’s Law Project Decolonized Reading List for 2025 https://lakotalaw.org/news/2025-01-31/the-lakota-peoples-law-project-decolonized-reading-list-for-2025
The Point on WCAI - Sept. 26, 2023 - Learning from One Another (podcast) https://www.capeandislands.org/show/the-point/2023-09-26/learning-from-one-another
Valandra, Edward, Undoing the First Harm (website) https://restorativeteachingtools.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Understanding-the-First-Harm.pdf
Native Activism/Influence
Grandmothers in South Dakota organizing, envisioning a Tribal Child Welfare Dept. and a children’s village (2022) (Youtube)
Means, Russell, Where White Men Fear to Tread (American Indian Movement) (1996) (Book)
Peters, Paula, Mashpee Nine: A Story of Cultural Justice (2016) (Book)
Peters, Paula, Mashpee Nine: The Beat Goes On (2016) (Film) (available at local library)
Wagner, Sally Roesch, Sisters in Spirit - Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists (2001) (Book)
Wagner, Sally Roesch on Native women’s influence on early women’s rights movement (2020) (article)
Warrior Women & Wounded Knee at 50: Madonna Thunder Hawk & Marcella Gilbert (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr1QBdefxH0
Warrior Women (Film) https://vimeo.com/ondemand/warriorwomen
Intergenerational Trauma
Duran, Eduardo (Tiospaye Ta Woapiye Wicasa), Healing the Soul Wound: Trauma-Informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities (2019) (Book)
Haaland, Deb, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Report on boarding schools (2022)
Historical Trauma Resource Guide - University of Minnesota Extension (2023) (website)
Home from School: Retrieving the Remains of Three Children - The Children of Carlisle, Caldera Productions (2017) (Film)
Hubl, Thomas & Gibson, Ruby Dr., Ancestral Trauma and the Future of Native Wellness (2023) (Youtube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc4aPcX1nxc&t=892s
Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) - (Google)
Maternal Gift Economy Virtual Salon #16, Discovering Genocidal History: Indigenous Children Speak from the Grave, with Sherri Mitchell & Miigam’agan (2021) (podcast) https://www.maternalgifteconomymovement.org/salon-16-sherri-mitchell-miigamagan
Pachamama Alliance, (podcast) https://news.pachamama.org/fierce-vulnerability-what-if-we-opened-it-up-rather-than-shut-it-down?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=392095328&utm_content=392095328&utm_source=hs_email
Sabzalian, Leilani, Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools (2019) (Book)
Science and Nonduality, Ancient Rhythms - An Offering for the Long Dark: Pat McCabe and Francis Weller (2025) (YouTube)
“This Land” Apple Podcasts hosted by Rebecca Nagel, Crooked Media-Season 2, Child Welfare System, Supreme Court Decision 2023
“What Was Ours”; PBS Independent Lens 2016 (available on Amazon Prime) Tribal Artifacts
The Land: Relation/Protection/Rites of Nature
Bioneers Guide to Rights of Nature in Indian Country https://bioneers.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Bioneers-Rights-of-Nature-Guide-2024-August.pdf
Cordalis, Amy Bowers, The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life (2025) (Book)
Eco Jurisprudence Monitor, https://ecojurisprudence.org/?map-style=political (website) (comprehensive collection of Rights of Nature Laws)
Ghosthorse, Tiokasin, Living with Relativity (2016) (article) https://humansandnature.org/living-with-relativity
Green America - Native Land in Native Hands: Why the Native Land Back Movement Makes Economic Sense (article)
Greene, Natalia, No to Noboa, Yes to Rights of Nature (website) https://news.pachamama.org/no-to-noboa-yes-to-rights-of-nature?utm_medium=email&_hsmi=392095328&utm_content=392095328&utm_source=hs_email
Land Back Movement (2021) (article)
Macfarlane, Robert, Is A River Alive? (2025) (Book)
Macfarlane, Robert, Is A River Alive? An Interview with Robert Macfarlane (2025) (article). https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/is-a-river-alive/?utm_source=Emergence+Magazine&utm_campaign=81c54f5461-Newsletter_20250720&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0-0be9b497cf-357382867
Native Land Conservancy (NLC) (website)
Native Groups Seek to Repair Land Damaged by Colonization (2022) (article)
Restoring first foods by dam removal (2023) (article)
Lev natan webinars - 2 parts to be added
FILM
The Eternal Song (2025)
For the Next 7 Generations (2009)
Incident at Oglala (Documentary about 1975 Pine Ridge shootout - Leonard Peltier blamed for death of two FBI agents (1992).
Indian Horse (2017)
Invisible Hand (2020)
Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022)
More Than Frybread (2012)
Remaining Native (2025
Resident Orca. (2024)
Savage Land (2021)
Sugarcane (2024)
Te Ata (2016)
Upstander Project films:
Dawnland https://upstanderproject.org/films/dawnland
Bounty https://www.bountyfilm.org/;
Dear Georgina https://upstanderproject.org/films/dear-georgina
You’re No Indian. (2025)
Bioneers 9 Films to Bring Indigenous Stories to Your Community (website). https://bioneers.org/9-films-to-bring-indigenous-stories-to-your-community-zmaz2509/
Other Resources
Cape Cod Path: mission to eliminate human trafficking on Cape Cod. Podcast by Jasmine Grace, human trafficking survivor
Cultural Survival (advancing Indigenous Peoples' Rights & Cultures worldwide since 1972). culturalsurvival.org (website)
Lakota Peoples Law Project https://lakotalaw.org
Native Land Digital https://native-land.ca/ (an Indigenous-led not-for-profit organization based in Canada which maps Indigenous territories).
DV: The Northeast Native Network of Kinship and Healing (website)
Pachamama Alliance, pachamama.org
Rising Voices, Changing Coasts https://www.rvcchub.org/info
The Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples Program of the Friends Peace Teams. https://friendspeaceteams.org/trr/
The Work that Reconnects, https://workthatreconnects.org/ (website for Joanna Macy’s work)
Museums
Aptucxet Trading Post Museum, Bourne, MA, https://www.bournehistoricalsociety.org/aptucxet-museum/ (website)
Aquinnah Wampanoag Indian Museum https://www.aquinnah.org/. (website)
The Box Museum, Plymouth, United Kingdom. https://www.theboxplymouth.com/ (website). The Box exhibited Wampanoag artifacts for the 400th. Online at: Mayflower 400: Old Worcestershire & New Plymouth (Part ll) - Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service (explorethepast.co.uk.)
The Highland House Museum and Truro Historical Society https://trurohistoricalsociety.org/highlandhouse/ featuring “Wampanoag Nation: People the First Light” exhibition (website)
The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth https://www.hsoy.org/ Marcus Hendricks and the Turtle Wetu Project. (website)
National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY. https://americanindian.si.edu/visit/reopening-ny. (Website)
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum. https://www.pilgrim-monument.org/ featuring “Our Story: The Complicated Relationship of the Indigenous Wampanoag and the Mayflower Pilgrims” (website)
The Smithsonian’s National museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. https://americanindian.si.edu/. (website)
Tomaquag Museum, Exeter, RI https://tomaquagmuseum.org/ (website)
Wampanoag Tribal Museum. https://mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/museum (website)