Notes and Sources

In this section you’ll find notes, sources, resources, updates, links, and corrections for the profiles and informational spreads in NOTABLE NATIVE PEOPLE.

This page is currently a work in progress, so return often!

Introduction

Definition of Indigenous Peoples (pg 11) drawn from Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang’s 2012 “Decolonization is not a Metaphor”
Indigenous Goddess Gang

Settler Colonialism 101

Patrick Wolfe’s 2006 “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native”
For an expansion of the ideas in the final paragraph: Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang’s 2012 “Decolonization is not a metaphor”, NDN collective’s “Land Back Manifesto”

Whose Land are you on?

Who Belongs?

All My Relations podcast episodes:
- “Beyond Blood Quantum”
- “Can a DNA Test Make Me Native American?”

Current Issues in Indian Country

Water, Land, and Climate Change
- Indigenous Climate Action
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (Relatives)
- Sovereign Bodies Institute
Sacred Sites
- Sacred Land project
Recognition
- NARF Tribal Recognition research guide
Pipelines, Mines, and Extractive Industries
- Article by Elizabeth Warner and Sarah Deer on relationship between extractive industry and bodily harm to Indigenous women
Food Sovereignty
- “28 Organizations Promoting Indigenous Food Sovereignty” (FoodTank)
Language Revitalization
- “Indigenous Language Revitalization” (2009) edited by Jon Rehyner and Louise Lockard (book)

Geo Soctomah Neptune

The second sentence of Geo’s profile reads “They identify as gender nonbinary and Two Spirit...” This is the incorrect language for the nonbinary community and should read, “They identify as nonbinary and Two Spirit…”

Madonna Thunder Hawk

Madonna’s profile is missing a sentence in the first printing. The middle of the second paragraph reads:

”The WARN was a call for Indigenous women to recognize their responsibilities and power as protectors of community both locally and globally. The goal of the school was to serve…”
It should instead read:
“The WARN was a call for Indigenous women to recognize their responsibilities and power as protectors of community both locally and globally. Unhappy with the white, Western school system that didn’t serve Indigenous students well, Madonna and Lorelai also established the We Will Remember Survival School in 1974. The goal of the school was to serve…”

Vi Waghiyi

Yupik should be written without the apostrophe
The line “I will fight until I melt” featured on Vi’s protest sign, as well as Vi’s work with ACAT, is honoring the work of Yupik Elder Annie Alowa (1924-1999), a friend and colleague to Vi. Read more about her story and work here.