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In addition to the online resources below and the public library, Sitka Counseling has a fantastic Social Justice and Racial Equity lending library. Click here to see their current list of 98 titles.
Recent additions below are in RED.
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Ada Blackjack Rising, an article and 6-minute biographical clip, just released this past Indigenous Peoples' Day Oct. 12, 2020. Here is also a link to the film's website, and here is a link to an interview with Jennifer Niven, the author of the biography.
Alistair Bane on the Moth Story Hour: Shawnees Never Quit (a humorous 14 min. podcast)
Allies for Racial Equality (website)
A Brief History of Alexander Baranov © Lee House, 2020 (slideshow)
A Brief Introduction to Tlingit-Aani
© Louise Brady & Matthew Jackson, 2020 (24 slides)
A Call for Reparations, a 40 minute NPR Terry Gross interview of Nikole Hannah-Jones (founder of the 1916 Project and recipient of a Pulitzer Prize). The above interview was in response to Hannah-Jones' article in the New York Times Magazine titled What Is Owed.
The Case for Reparations, an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a 2015 recipient of the "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Foundation.
Christopher Scott on the Moth Story Hour: Moral Redemption (17 min. podcast)
A Conversation with Native Americans on Race (6-minute clip)
Decolonization Is for Everyone, 13-minute video by Keynote Speaker Canada Nikki Sanchez
Don't Honor Baranov, a Letter to the Editor of Anchorage Daily News by Michael Oleska
Elise Boudreau as Keynote Speaker at 2019 Rural Providers' Conference (42-minute video)
FNX: First Nations Experience (website) the first and only nationally broadcast television network in the U.S. exclusively devoted to Native American and World Indigenous content
Four Types of Racism (1 page)
The Frustration of Trying to Invest in my Hometown (article)
The Future of Healing: Shifting from Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement (article)
The Herring Protectors:
Historical Ketchikan...Historical Alaska (pdf with links to many articles)
Historical Trauma and Microaggressions: A Framework for Culturally-Based Practice (9 pages)
How to Be an Antiracist, by Historian Ibram X. Kendi (55 minute YouTube clip). This book is also available at the Sitka Public Library, including an online version. Click here for a 20-minute NPR interview, and here for a NYT's book review.
Improving Health Equity, 7 chapters geared to those who work in health care, but others may also find valuable.
1. Building Infrastructure (32 pages)
2. Eliminating Racism (23 pages)
3. Prioritizing (27 pages)
4. Addressing Multiple Determinants (22 pages)
5. Partnering with Community (19 pages)
6. Summary Reports (51 pages)
7. Assessment Tools (11 pages)
Indigenous and Other Voices, Wednesdays 2-4 pm, David Sam's radio KCAW show. Click here for website with "Listen Live" button top left.
Karen Walker interview: "The whole reason for refining sugar is to make it white" (web article). And here is a 3-minute clip of the artist's installation.
The Library Show. Leah and Lexi talk about books that focus on racial equality. Click here to listen.
Listen. Learn. Act to End Racism January 2021 Convention, linked on the Points of Light website. Sitka is featured in the beginning of this 1 hour 15 minute presentation, as a Community Impact Story.
Little War on the Prairie (a This American Life 1 hour episode)
Native American Women Tell the Real History of Thanksgiving (2 min clip)
MMIWG, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls:
A Model of the Effects of Colonialism (2 pages)
My Body is a Confederate Monument: Slavery, Rape and Reframing the Past (web article) which was written to follow the original article You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument (article).
Native American Invisibility: Why Are White People So Bad at Talking about Native Issues? (6-minute clip)
Native Mascots: Really, Still? (1 hour 15 min. podcast)
Notice the Rage, Notice the Silence, Resmaa Menakem (1 hour 40 min. podcast from On Being with Krista Tippett.
Osage Kettle Carriers - Marmitons, Scullery Boys, Deviants and Gender Choices, by Dr. Tink Tinker (article)
The Pandemic Pipeline: Land & Water Defenders Continue Resistance to Enbridge Line 3 in Minnesota (article)
A People's History of the United States (721 pages)
The Race Gap: How Systemic Racism Plays out in Black Lives (article)
Race Forward (website)
Racial Equality & Justice in SE Alaska 2020 Speaker Series. Click here for a link to all five presentations.
Report to Sitkans. What Makes a Sustainable Community? Gary Holthaus (a 22-page pdf)
Response to Tink Tinker's "Osage Kettle Carriers," by Alistair Bane (article)
Sealaska Heritage (website)
Sealaska Native Corporation (website)
Sitka Tribe of Alaska vs. Alaska Herring Litigation (website)
The 1619 Project (web article)
Southeast Tribal Values, Central Council, Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska (website)
SpeakOut (website)
Stick Figure on the Door (article)
Systems of Oppression (1 page)
Talk of Southeast Alaska: Policing and Racism. Click here to listen.
Talk of Southeast Alaska: Racial Justice and Equity. Click here to listen.
10 Myths about the Racial Wealth Gap (article)
10 Tlingit Words We Should All Be Using in Southeast Alaska (article)
Timeline of Alaska Native History (12 pages)
Tlingit Storytelling: The Past and Hope for the Future (1.5 hour video or just audio)
Trans Liberation Is for Everyone, Anneliese Singh (10 min clip)
What Museums Get Wrong about Native Americans (35-minute video)
When We Examine Our Prejudices, MLK's 'Beloved Community" Is Within Reach. (KCAW article)
White Fragility, a book and audio book available at the Sitka Public Library. Click here for a review in the New Yorker, and/or see the clip below.
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses White Fragility (1 hour 23 minute video)
White Supremacy Culture (8 pages)
Winona LaDuke: Deb Haaland's Nomination for Interior Secretary Is "Important Step" for Native Americans (article)
Sealaska Language Resources:
Haida Dictionary
Haida Phrasebook
Shm'algyack Dictionary
Tlingit Dictionary
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