RESOURCES

Welcome to our listing of Books, YouTube videos, Films, Teachers & Websites, relevant to our understanding of the Indigenous/Wampanoag experience.  Many of these works have been read or viewed by members of L.I.N.K.’s Board, committees, study group, and Community Book Group.  The L.I.N.K. Resource List is not intended to be an exhaustive list of references for works by or about Indigenous peoples.

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1. Indigenous Wisdom/Ways of Knowing

  • Brave Heart, Basil and Giovale, Hilary, Conversation with Oglála Lakȟóta Elder Basil Brave Heart: Part 1, 2021 (article) view here. 

  • Brave Heart, Basil and Giovale, Hilary, Conversation with Oglála Lakȟóta Elder Basil Brave Heart: Part 2, 2021 (article) view here. 

  • 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:                                            

    • Google Talks: Mother Earth Speaks, 2020 (YouTube) view here.

    • The Womb at the Center of the Universe, 2014 (YouTube) view here.

  • 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) view here.

  • 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) view here.

  • Wildcat, Dan, Returning Ancient Wisdom to the Earth Sciences, 2022 (YouTube) view here.

  • Wahinkpe, Topa (Four Arrows), DOMINATOR AND INDIGENOUS WORLDVIEW MANIFESTATIONS, (website chart) view here.

  • 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).

2. Wampanoag History/Culture/Fiction

  • Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Aquinnah Cultural Center (website) view here.

  • Avant, Joan, People of the First Light: Wisdoms of a Mashpee Wampanoag Elder, 2010 (book).

  • Tribute to Joan Tavares Avant on her 85th birthday, 2025 (article) view here.

  • Baird, Jessie Little Doe, “We Still Live Here,” 2011 (film) view here.

  • Brook, Jack, A Language, Liberated: White settlers silenced the Wôpanâak language for generations. Nitana Hicks Greendeer ’03 is a leader in the effort to bring it back, 2020 (article) view here.

  • Brooks, Lisa, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, 2018 (book).

  • Coombs, Linda, Colonization and the Wampanoag Story, 2023 (book) view here.

  • Coombs, Darius, Wampanoag Life Ways, 2019 (YouTube) view here.

  • Greendeer, Nitana Hicks, Ph.D., Wampanoag History and Culture - A Community Workshop with Nitana Hicks Greendeer, PhD at Marine Biological Laboratory, 2022 (YouTube) view here.

  • 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) view here.

  • Mashpee Wampanoag Native Environmental Ambassadors (website) view here.

  •  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 (website) view here.

  • Peters, Paula, Baxter Lecture: 400 Years Of Wampanoag History, GBH Forum Network, 2021 (YouTube) view here.

  • Peters, Russell, “The Wampanoags of Mashpee: An Indian Perspective on American History,” 1987 (book).

  • Roscoe, Lee, Wampanoag Art for the Ages, Traditional and Transitional, 2022 (book).

  • Wopanaak Language Project (website) view here.

Thanksgiving

  • Frank B. James - The Suppressed Speech Of Wamsutta, Wampanoag, to have been delivered at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1970 (speech) view here.

  • Greendeer, Perry & Bunten, Keepunumuk: Weeachumun’s Thanksgiving Story, 2022 (book).

  • Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address, (article) view here.

  • 11 Ways to Relearn Thanksgiving and to Honor Native Peoples in 2025 (article) view here.

  • Lyla June Johnston, The Truth of Thanksgiving, 2019 (YouTube) view here.

  • Thanksgiving Through Native Eyes, Mashpee TV, 2021 (YouTube) view here.

  • The Wampanoag Legacy: Critical Backstory to the First Thanksgiving - EcoJustice Radio, 2025 (podcast) view here.

General Indigenous History/Culture

  • Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project view here.

  • 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) view here.

  • 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) view here.

  • 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 view here.

  • 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) view here.

  • Moberg, Kim, musician, The Seven Fires Prophecy, (website) view here.

  • 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, 2010 (YouTube) view here.

  • 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) view here.

  • Quigley, Dawn, Red Bird Danced, 2024 (book).

  • Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, 2017 (film, music).

  • 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) view here.

  • 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) view here.

  • Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection, 2010 (book).

  • Valandra, Edward, Colorizing Restorative Justice, 2020 (book).

  • “Visions of Indigenous Futures” view here.

  • Wallis, Velma, Two Old Women, 1993 (book).

  • Wilson, Diane, The Seed Keeper, 2021 (book).

3. Building Sovereignty

  • Bioneers, (website) view here.              

  • “Indigeneity," a Native-led Program within Bioneers (media that is Indigenous centered) view here.

  • Bridge, Gwen, Rising Voices webinar: Building Relational and Effective Partnerships with Indigenous Communities, 2022 (YouTube - start at 38:00) view here.

  • 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, ReHuman School, 2025 (website) view here.

  • Johnston, Lyla June, Faux-Pas Handout, 2025 (PDF) view here.

  • Johnston, Lyla June, Road Map, 2025 (PDF) view here.

  • Johnston, Lyla June, Reclaiming Our Indigenous European Roots, 2019 (article) view here.

  • The Lakota People’s Law Project Decolonized Reading List for 2025 view here.

  • The Point on WCAI - Sept. 26, 2023 - Learning from One Another (podcast) view here.

  • Valandra, Edward, Undoing the First Harm (website) view here.

4. Native Activism/Influence

  • Grandmothers in South Dakota organizing, envisioning a Tribal Child Welfare Dept. and a children’s village, 2022 (YouTube) view here.

  • 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).

  • 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) view here.

  • Warrior Women & Wounded Knee at 50: Madonna Thunder Hawk & Marcella Gilbert (YouTube) view here.

  • Warrior Women (film) view here.

5. 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 (PBS News Hour) view here.

  • Historical Trauma Resource Guide - University of Minnesota Extension, 2023 (PDF) view here.

  • Home from School: Retrieving the Remains of Three Children - The Children of Carlisle, Caldera Productions, 2017 (film) view here.

  • Hubl, Thomas & Gibson, Ruby Dr., Ancestral Trauma and the Future of Native Wellness, 2023 (YouTube) view here.

  • Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) (website) view here.

  • Maternal Gift Economy Virtual Salon #16, Discovering Genocidal History: Indigenous Children Speak from the Grave, with Sherri Mitchell & Miigam’agan, 2021 (podcast) view here.

  • Pachamama Alliance, Fierce Vulnerability: What if We Opened It Up Rather Than Shut It Down? (podcast) view here.

  • 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) view here.

  • “This Land” Apple Podcasts hosted by Rebecca Nagel, Crooked Media-Season 2, Child Welfare System, Supreme Court Decision, 2023 (podcast) view here.

  • “What Was Ours”; PBS Independent Lens, 2016 (film) Tribal Artifacts view here.

6. The Land: Relation/Protection/Rites of Nature

  • Bioneers Guide to Rights of Nature in Indian Country (PDF) view here.

  • 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, (website) (comprehensive collection of Rights of Nature Laws) view here.

  • Ghosthorse, Tiokasin, Living with Relativity, 2016 (article) view here.

  • Green America - Native Land in Native Hands: Why the Native Land Back Movement Makes Economic Sense (article) view here.

  • Greene, Natalia, No to Noboa, Yes to Rights of Nature (website) view here.

  • Land Back Movement, 2021 (article) view here.

  • Macfarlane, Robert, Is A River Alive?, 2025 (book).

  • Macfarlane, Robert,  Is A River Alive? An Interview with Robert Macfarlanw, 2025 (article) view here.

  • Native Land Conservancy (NLC) (website) view here.

  • Native Groups Seek to Repair Land Damaged by Colonization, 2022 (article) view here.

  • Restoring first foods by dam removal, 2023 (article) view here.

7. 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 view here:                                                                       

  • You’re No Indian, 2025.

  • Bioneers, 9 Films to Bring Indigenous Stories to Your Community (article) view here.

8. Other Resources

  • Cape Cod Path, view here: mission to eliminate human trafficking on Cape Cod. Podcast by Jasmine Grace, human trafficking survivor view here.

  • Cultural Survival, advancing Indigenous Peoples' Rights & Cultures worldwide since 1972, (website) view here.

  • Lakota Peoples Law Project view here.

  • Native Land Digital (an Indigenous-led not-for-profit organization based in Canada which maps Indigenous territories) view here.

  • DV: The Northeast Native Network of Kinship and Healing (website) view here.

  • Pachamama Alliance (website) view here.

  • Rising Voices, Changing Coasts (website) view here. 

  • The Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples Program of the Friends Peace Teams (websitre) view here.

  • Upstander Project (website) view here.

  • The Work that Reconnects (website for Joanna Macy’s work) view here.

Museums

  • Aptucxet Trading Post Museum, Bourne, MA (website) view here.

  • Aquinnah Wampanoag Indian Museum (website) view here.

  • The Box Museum, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (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.) view here.

  • The Highland House Museum and Truro Historical Society featuring “Wampanoag Nation: People the First Light” exhibition (website) view here.

  • The Historical Society of Old Yarmouth Marcus Hendricks and the Turtle Wetu Project (website) view here.

  • National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY (website) view here.

  • Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum featuring “Our Story: The Complicated Relationship of the Indigenous Wampanoag and the Mayflower Pilgrims” (website) view here.

  • The Smithsonian’s National museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. (website) view here.

  • Tomaquag Museum, Exeter, RI (website) view here.

  • Wampanoag Tribal Museum (website) view here.

Indigenous Teachers

  • Wampanoag

    • Joan Tavares Avant

    • Jessie Little Doe Baird

    • Darius Coombs

    • Linda Coombs

    • gkisedtanamoogk

    • Nitana Hicks Greendeer

    • Earl Mills Jr.

    • Earl Mills Sr.

    • Paula Peters

    • Ramona Peters

  • Other Indigenous teachers

    • Lyla June Johnston

    • Pat McCabe

    • Sherri Mitchell