BLA Resources: Websites
History
- History of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
- Understand Native Minnesota, https://www.understandnativemn.org
- MNHS exhibit and numerous resources https://www.mnhs.org/historycenter/activities/museum/our-home
- Why Treaties Matter virtual exhibit
- Carleton, September 2021
- The Bdote Memory Map
- The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
- U.S. Indian Boarding School history
- Interactive Digital Map of Indian Boarding Schools
- See also database (below, under “Miscellaneous Resources”)
- History of the Minnesota Conference UCC: The Dakota Peoples
Reconciliation & Reparations
- MN Council of Churches Healing Minnesota Stories (Sacred Sites tours)
- Hoçokata ti is the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s (SMSC) cultural center and gathering space, used to interpret and encourage traditional Mdewakanton Dakota cultural heritage, language, and history.
- Sacred Reckonings – reparations for Black and Indigenous communities
- Mni Sota Makoce Honor Tax
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation – “Indian lands in Indian hands”
- Makoce Ikikcupi (Land Recovery)
- Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light
Miscellaneous resources
- We Are Still Here – Minnesota. A working organization with the mission “to spotlight and make visible the lives and contributions of Native American peoples and their governments in Minnesota today because we are still here. We will do this by challenging and correcting false narratives, replacing fiction with facts and finding solutions for issues impacting the Native American community. Here is a link to their authentic resources.
- “We’re still here”: Indigenous organizing at Carleton
- Dakota Wihocan – an organization in Morton, MN to “revitalize Dakota as a living language and, through it, transmit Dakota lifeways to future generations”
- Honor Native Land – U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
- On Being website with resources, https://onbeing.org/land-acknowledgment/
- National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Resource Database
