Check out these resources to learn more about the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ people of yesterday and today:

ONLINE RESOURCES

For language-related books, reach out to us at the GLP directly!

Videos

• Can we rethink the relationship between European and Indigenous Knowledges? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7K43Hs3ngk 

• Treaty Relations and Two Row Companion-Conversations In Cultural Fluency#5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwTIjDzodi4 

• Polishing the Covenant Chain: Renewing Our Relationship with Indigenous Peoples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPWnstKCsI  

• Decolonization is for Everyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP9x1NnCWNY 

• Decolonization is Not a Metaphor - Tuck & Yang 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSMcK-nSwSI 

• What happened to the tribes of Europe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2wGOlVDsRw 

News Articles

• Turtle Island Decolonized: Mapping Indigenous Names across “North America” https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/turtle-island-decolonized/ 

• Let's Return the Cascade Volcanoes to Their Original Names https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/lets-return-the-cascade-volcanoes-to-their-original-names

• Coming home: Gayogohono langauage programs expand reach https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/10/coming-home-gayogohono-language-programs-expand-reach 

• Can We Teach More Complete Histories of Native People? https://hyperallergic.com/849514/can-we-teach-more-complete-histories-of-native-peoples/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=W101423&utm_content=W101423+CID_563ff8013ee83dedc4b601434454fff9&utm_source=hn&utm_term=education+on+Native+American+history

• ‘Our language identifies who we are’: Determined to preserve the Salish language, the Spokane Tribe is turning study into a full-time job https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/nov/05/our-language-identifies-who-we-are-determined-to-p/?fbclid=IwAR0ArXf3_tf-WXoUx-EVU1zAR1_xe5CMYL3x_YJWWna4Ay5HQP3_76vCADA

• Indigenous short film 'Little Chief,' filmed in Oklahoma by director Erica Tremblay, to screen at 2020 Sundance Film Festival https://www.oklahoman.com/story/entertainment/columns/brandy-mcdonnell/2019/12/17/indigenous-short-little-chief-filmed-oklahoma-director-erica-tremblay-screen-sundance-film-festival/60413713007/#:~:text=PARK%20CITY%2C%20Utah%20%2D%20%22Little,2

• GreenStar Article by Working Group Member Denise Costich https://greenstar.coop/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GreenLeaf-Quarterly-FALL-2023.pdf

Films

• Fancy Dance, directed and co-written by Erica Tremblay, also filmed in Gahna ̲ ·wiyóˀgeh and starring Lily Gladstone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1toh7tTyCrk  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21813994/ 

Local Websites

• The History Center in Tompkins County  - Native American Heritage Month https://thehistorycenter.net/Native-American-Heritage-Month

• The Language Conservancy https://languageconservancy.org/learning-resources/

BOOKLIST

Children

• The First Blade of Sweetgrass (Gabriel Frey and Suzanne Greenlaw) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/the-first-blade-of-sweetgrass 

• The Star That Always Stays (Anna Rose Johnson) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/the-star-that-always-stays?_pos=1&_sid=a2c223837&_ss=r 

• Jingle Dancer (Cynthia Leitich Smith) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/jingle-dancer?_pos=1&_sid=ae79670d5&_ss=r 

• Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids (Cynthia Leitich Smith) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/ancestor-approved-intertribal-stories-for-kids?_pos=1&_sid=cf2ad43a0&_ss=r 

• Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story (Kevin Noble Maillard) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/fry-bread 

• Sacagawea (Lise Erdrich) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/sacagawea?_pos=1&_sid=6edef3270&_ss=r 

• Keepunumuk (Danielle Greendeer, Anthony Perry, Alexis C. Bunten) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/keepunumuk?_pos=1&_sid=c134356f3&_ss=r 

Older Crowds (a mix of some favorite fiction and non-fiction (mostly) non-academic books)

• Red New Deal (The Red Nation) https://www.commonnotions.org/the-red-deal

• Five Little Indians (Michelle Good) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/five-little-indians?_pos=1&_sid=67f3e98ef&_ss=r 

• Thinking in Indian (John Mohawk) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/thinking-in-indian?_pos=1&_sid=ef122e2f4&_ss=r 

• Rural Indigenousness: A History of Iroquoian and Algonquian Peoples of the Adirondacks (The Iroquois and Their Neighbors) (Melissa Otis) https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/135/rural-indigenousness/ 

• Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer) https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass 

• Gathering Moss (Robin Wall Kimmerer) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/gathering-moss 

• Project 562 (Matika Wilbur) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/project-562 

• Notable Native People (Adrienne Keene) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623292/notable-native-people-by-adrienne-keene-illustrated-by-ciara-sana/ 

• Indigenous Ingenuity: A Celebration of Traditional North American Knowledge (Deidre Havrelock, Edward Kay) https://www.akpress.org/indigenous-ingenuity.html 

• It's All About the Land (Taiaike Alfred) https://goodminds.com/products/its-all-about-the-land-collected-talks-and-interviews-on-indigenous-resurgence

• Embers (Richard Wagamese)  https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/embers?_pos=1&_sid=e82e7c89a&_ss=r 

• Indian Horse (Richard Wagamese) https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/indian-horse/ 

• The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ People in the Cayuga Lake Region (Kurt Jordan) https://thehistorycenter.net/Sys/Store/Products/288446 

• Reclaiming Two-Spirits (Gregory Smithers) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691080/reclaiming-two-spirits-by-gregory-d-smithers/ 

• All the Quiet Places: A Novel (Brian Thomas Isaac) https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/all-the-quiet-places 

• Bad Cree: A Novel (Jessica Johns) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707009/bad-cree-by-jessica-johns/ 

• Our History is the Future (Nick Estes) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/600136/our-history-is-the-future-by-nick-estes/