About this guide
This guide is a curated selection of databases, research journals, Harvard collections, and more all related to Native American and Indigenous Studies. These resources are broken into the following categories:
- Indigenous Databases
- Indigenous Research Journals and Publications
- Indigenous and Indigenous-related Harvard Collections and Projects
- Indigenous Film and Performing Arts
- Indigenous Health Resources
- Indigenous STEM Resources
- Local Indigenous Cultural Centers
- Indigenous Protocols for Research
- Indigenous Citation and Style Methods
- General Research
If users believe there are relevant collections or materials missing from this guide, please let the guide author know as this guide is a continual work in progress.
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This guide would like to acknowledge that Harvard University is located on the traditional and ancestral land of the Massachusett, the original inhabitants of what is now known as Boston and Cambridge. We pay respect to the people of the Massachusett Tribe, past and present, and honor the land itself which remains sacred to the Massachusett People.
Additionally, between 1636 and 1783, more than 70 individuals were enslaved by Harvard leaders, faculty, and staff. May we honor their memory, and the memory of all the enslaved women, men, and children whose labor generated wealth that helped create the Harvard we know today.
Additional information on land acknowledgements and their purpose can be found here, HUNAP's Acknowledgement of Land and People statement can be found here, and more information about the history of Harvard's Legacy with Slavery can be found here.
Julie's Current Book Suggestions!
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This Land Is Their Land by Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony's founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth's survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth's governor, John Carver, declared their people's friendship for each other and a commitment to mutual defense. Later that autumn, the English gathered their first successful harvest and lifted the specter of starvation. Ousamequin and 90 of his men then visited Plymouth for the "First Thanksgiving." The treaty remained operative until King Philip's War in 1675, when 50 years of uneasy peace between the two parties would come to an end. 400 years after that famous meal, historian David J. Silverman sheds profound new light on the events that led to the creation, and bloody dissolution, of this alliance. Focusing on the Wampanoag Indians, Silverman deepens the narrative to consider tensions that developed well before 1620 and lasted long after the devastating war-tracing the Wampanoags' ongoing struggle for self-determination up to this very day. This unsettling history reveals why some modern Native people hold a Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving, a holiday which celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States. This Land is Their Land shows that it is time to rethink how we, as a pluralistic nation, tell the history of Thanksgiving.ISBN: 9781632869241Publication Date: 2019-11-05
