Notable Native People-- 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present By Adrienne Keene- Learning on whose land you live. A Book Excerpt on Justice - Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN

 Notable Native People--

50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present

By Adrienne Keene-

Learning on whose land you live.

A Book Excerpt on Justice - Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN 

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“Do you know the name of the Indigenous nation or nations on whose land your house is built? What about where you grew up? Attended school? Went on a vacation? Where you work? If you don’t know, it’s time to find out. You can start with a resource like Native-Land.ca, on which the map in this book was based, and then verify the information through other sources like tribal websites, local community organizations, or universities. Then find out what those communities are up to today — have they been displaced to other lands? If so, where are they now? Is the local tribal nation still active in your area? If not, is there a local urban Native organization? For many cities and towns, it may feel as if there isn’t a Native presence or hasn’t been one for a very long time, but there are Native people everywhere.

“Once you learn whose land you’re on, how do you honor that relationship? It is becoming more common to hear a 'land acknowledgment' at the beginning of some public events, conferences, or talks. Land acknowledgments are more common in some other settler colonial nations, like the places currently known as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. These acknowledgments vary, but they usually give the name of the community on whose land the event is occurring. Although these acknowledgments are symbolic, they are important because they center Native nations and disrupt the status quo. However, these acknowledgments are just the first step. Building relationships with Native people should be account action, not just a checkbox at the beginning of an event.

“What can those actions look like? For settlers and non-Natives, it starts with acknowledging the invisibility and erasure of Native people and working to interrupt it. When events are planned, make sure there is a local Native presence. Invite (and pay) local elders to offer opening remarks and to be on advisory committees. Look closely at the language used on websites, forms, and fliers to see whether it privileges colonial understandings of place. If it does, then petition to have it changed to be more inclusive.”

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 Notable Native People -

50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present

By Adrienne Keene -

A celebration of Indigenous teachers in words and color illustrations.-

Book Review by Jon M. Sweeney

This book begins right where it ought to, with this in the Introduction: “The lands in what is currently known as the United States encompass the homelands of 574 federally recognized American Indian tribal nations, as well as hundreds more state-recognized and non-recognized tribal nations. In addition, through later acts of land seizing — and in the case of the Hawaiian Kingdom, illegal overthrow — our extended Indigenous community also includes Kanaka Maoli and Alaska Native people.”

It is these groups that are the sources for the people profiled here. It’s possible that none of the names will already be familiar to you, and that is why the book is important. We hope that every public library in the United States will purchase a copy.

Jessie Little Doe Baird, born 1963, is a citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag nation, the people who met the Mayflower in 1620. She is a linguist and language revitalization advocate, a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” recipient, seeking to revive the language of the Wampanoag people.

Rowen White, born 1979, is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk community, with a passion for what is called “seed sovereignty” — the right of communities to control and protect their seeds. As author Adrienne Keene explains, it was while a student at Hampshire College that White “began to see seeds as relatives and connections to our ancestors.” Seed sovereignty is particularly important to Indigenous people because “many crops that Native people carefully cultivated and relied upon for centuries were lost or nearly lost during colonization, when settlers purposefully destroyed Indigenous food systems.”

These are simply the first two profiles. There are 48 more. Most are of living Indigenous people, the youngest born in 1992: Kyrie Irving, a famous NBA basketball player whose mother was Lakota, born on the Standing Rock Reservation, but was adopted out of the Indigenous community. She died when Irving was only four. Keene tells us, “In 2018, the tribe hosted a 'welcome home' ceremony for Kyrie and his older sister.”

The other well-known contemporary figure in the book was born in 1980: Sharice Davids, of the Ho-Chunk people, who is now the youngest Indigenous member of Congress.

Short articles on key topics ideally suited to learning more are sprinkled throughout the book. These are “Settler Colonialism 101,” “Whose Land Are You On?,” “Representation Matters,” “Hawai’i and Alaska,” “Current Issues in Indian Country,” and “Who Belongs?” — which begins, “To be an Indigenous person means to have ties to a physical place and a people. It is a complex identity to hold, one that doesn’t fit easily into the categories of race, citizenship, and heritage set up by the American system.”

Eighteen of the profiles are of people from centuries past, beginning with Po’Pay, ca. 1630-1688, the medicine man and Pueblo revolt leader, and including Ka’ahumanu, co-leader of the Hawaiian Kingdom, who lived from 1768-1832, and whose “legacy as a powerful female ruler is recognized today in Hawai’i through the Ka’ahumanu Society, a civic club that celebrates Hawaiian culture and looks after elders.”

Author Adrienne Keene is a scholar and writer of the Cherokee Nation. Illustrator Ciara Sana’s art is imbued with the spirit of her Indigenous Chamoru culture.