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Grandmothers of the Light, by Paula Gunn Allen
Ceremony – novel by Leslie Marmon Silko
Voices of Ancestors: Cherokee Teachings from the Wisdom Fire – Dhyani Ywahoo
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change – Sherri Mitchell
Winona LaDuke’s books: Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, etc.
Indigenous Peoples History of the US by Roxanne Ortiz
Bad Indians by Deborah Miranda
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee – David Treuer (this is an amazing book!!!)
Decolonize All The Things: Race, Ethnicity, & Racism
“Arab and Black Feminisms Joint Struggle and Transnational Anti-Imperialist Activism” -Nadine Naber
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
The Key to Healing Whiteness is Understanding Cultural Somatic Context by Tada Hozumi
Whiteness as Cultural Complex Trauma by Tada Hozumi
Qallunology 201: We are the first De-Indigenized Civilization
Qallunology 101: A Lesson Plan for the Non-Indigenous
Decolonizing Whiteness: Doing Our Own Work
Mixed Race’ Studies: A Reader – Jayne O. Ifekwunegwe
We Too Sing America by Deepa Iyer
Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, & Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States
Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, & Feminism During the Vietnam Era
Passing It On — A Memoir By Yuri Kochiyama
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
A Map is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, & the Meeting of Home
The Making of Asian America: A History
The Karma of Brown Folk
Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race From Seoul to LA
Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama by Diane Fujino
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority
Asian American Feminisms & Women of Color Politics
America Is In the Heart: A Personal History [Pilipino American]
Eduardo Galeano’s incredible trilogy: Memory of Fire and his book Open Veins of Latin America
What Decolonization Is, and What It Means to Me – article in Teen Vogue by young Xicana person
Black in Latin America E03, Mexico and Peru: The Black Grandma in the Closet
Layla Feghali on Borderless Remembrance (on for the wild podcast)
Healing Justice Podcast Episodes: OAKCCED: Safeguarding Oakland’s Chinatown & Black Arts Districts Communities, BOLD: Black Organizing for Leadership and dignity
Healing in Action: A toolkit for Black Lives Matter Healing Justice and Direct Action
James Cone on Black Liberation Theology: Fresh Air interview, 03/31/08
Black Liberation Collective
The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code – documentary by Sheldon Wolfchild
The paradox of Indigenous resurgence at the end of empire – Waziyatawin
Decolonization is not a metaphor
General References for Collective Transformation & Healing Trauma
General Readings about Race & Colonialism in U.S.
General Frameworks & Approaches to Decolonizing & Healing Racial Trauma
Trauma Decontextualised in a People Can Look Like Culture, Resmaa Menakem on how racism affects the body
Dr. CUTCHA RISLING BALDY on Land Return and Revitalization, for the wild podcast
The story of how humanity fell in love with itself once again
Roots Deeper than Whiteness
Sami Blood (film)
Reclaiming our Indigenous Roots
Exterminate All the Brutes (HBO series)
Decolonization is not a metaphor
Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy
Lyla June – All Nations Rise