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Resources on Indigenous Peoples

Around Campus

  • Follow 1NNA (First Nations Native Alliance) @1NNA_NIU on Instagram
  • Virtual Exhibit "Celebrating N.A.T.I.O.N.S. and Native American Student Activism at NIU"
  • NIU LibGuides: Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America Library Guide and Racial and Social Justice: Native Americans

Potawatomi Peoples, Language and Land

  • Prairie Band Potawatomi website includes tribal history of the the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and map of other Potawatomi nations
  • Citizen Potawatomi Nation Dictionary
  • Potawatomi nation's claim to land in DeKalb County gains support from Washington D.C.

Land Acknowledgment Tools

  • Native Land Map
  • Why Acknowledge Territory
  • Native Land Teacher's Guide
  • Debbie Reese, "Are You Planning to Do a Land Acknowledgment?"
  • Amnesty International, "Activism skills: Land and territory acknowledgment"

Chicagoland Resources

  • "Adversity and Resiliency for Chicago's First," Report by University of Illinois at Chicago
  • American Indian Center of Chicago
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