Native American Resources: Education Resources

• American Indian College Fund

  Financial aid for Native American students.

• National Indian Education Association

  Programs & resources to support American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students.

• Office of Indian Education

  Helps teachers, school leaders, & Indian students gain knowledge and understanding of Native communities, languages, Tribal histories, traditions, & cultures.

• National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

  Explore ways of healing inter-generational traumas that are a result of boarding school experiences passed down to Native American individuals, families, communities, and Tribal Nations.

• Residential Schools Atlas

  Sites & Indigenous survivors’ stories; critical approaches to cartography, news stories, & more

• Bay Mills Community College

  Located in Brimley, Michigan (eastern Upper Peninsula)

• Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College

  Campuses in Baraga and L'Anse, Michigan (western Upper Peninsula)

• Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College

  Community college in Mount Pleasant, Michigan (Lower Peninsula)

• Tribal Colleges & Universities

  List of colleges & universities from the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.

• Tribal Colleges, Native Studies programs, and Indian Education

  Links to organizations, schools, programs, and resources.

• Ally Bill of Responsibilities by Dr. Lynn Gehl−Gii-Zhigaate-Mnidoo-Kwe, Ph.D., Algonquin Anishinaabe-kwe

  1. Do not act out of guilt, but rather out of a genuine interest in challenging the larger oppressive power structures;
  2. Understand that they are secondary to the Indigenous people that they are working with and that they seek to serve. They and their needs must take a back seat;

*Those of us who are not from Tribal Nations in Turtle Island / the Americas. "The term 'settler' refers to members of dominant groups, predominantly European heritage, White cultural groups" (Williams, 2019).

Decolonization = recovering and cultivating the cultural, socio-economic, political, and/or spiritual knowledge and ways of being following the colonization; changing the “reality” imposed by colonizers.

Colonization = the terrorism of taking Indigenous nations and resources, annihilating their ways of knowing, assassinating, enslaving, and “reeducating” peoples.

Williams, H. (2019), Toward Being Inclusive: Intentionally Weaving Online Learning, Reconciliation, and Intercultural Development. Teaching and Learning, 2019: 59-76. DOI:10.1002/tl.20330

• Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Settler Privilege by Gilio-Whitaker, Dina

  Publication Date: November 08, 2018

  Essay on (white) settler privilege - excellent questions on "unearned settler privilege or complicity in settler colonialism."