Informational Links

The following are links to resources that we believe are important information for Alaska Natives, policy makers, community leaders and others. FAI provides this list as an informational resource only. FAI is not involved with the creation or maintenance of these sites and therefore cannot be held responsible for the information on them. Inclusion on this list does not constitute an endorsement by FAI.

Racial Equity Tools

• • Implicit Bias: https://www.nytimes.com/video/who-me-biased
  • Systemic Racism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ
  • Workplace Equity vs. Equality: https://youtu.be/1g0KJlUpLNg
  • White Dominant Culture & Something Else: Tools for Addressing White Dominant Culture 
  • DEIJ questions: https://twitter.com/tkurdi/status/1298957533915287553
  • Inequality, Equality and Equity by EJ David: Inequality, Equality, and Equity | Psychology Today
  • Unpacking the invisible knapsack: https://psychology.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2016/10/White-Privilege_McIntosh-1989.pdf
  • Racial Equity Tools: fundamentals and definitions https://www.racialequitytools.org/resources/fundamentals
  • Changing the narrative about Native Americans: https://illuminative.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/MessageGuide-Allies-screen-spreads.pdf

Federal Indian Law in Alaska

• Federal Indian Law in Alaska from UAF: Federal Indian Law for Alaska Tribes | Tribal Governance (uaf.edu)

ANCSA & Hunting and Fishing Rights

• Midnight Oil: “Take Our Land, Take Our Life” https://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/06/27/take-our-land-take-our-life-midnight-oil-episode-02/

Education/Boarding Schools/Missionization/Child Welfare

• • Books:
  • Alaska Native Education: Views from Within (book mentioned during dialogue): Alaska Native Education: Views from Within: Barnhardt, Ray, Kawagley, Angayuqaq Oscar: 9781877962431: Amazon.com: Books
  • The Tao of Raven: The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir a book by Ernestine Hayes (bookshop.org)
    
    
  • Podcasts:
  • Coffee & Quaq, Truthsgiving (part 1 & 2): Episode 10: #Truthsgiving (coffeeandquaq.com)
  • This Land Podcast: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/
  • All My Relations | HOME (allmyrelationspodcast.com)
    
    
  • Videos:
  • Coffeetime on Healing with Boarding School Advisors: https://www.facebook.com/FirstAlaskansInstitute/videos/360325319161470/
  • Learn more about the history of boarding schools in the United States: https://boardingschoolhealing.org/
  • Indigenizing Education + Compacting Series: A 3 part series on Indigenizing education and compacting hosted by FAI with Maori and Alaska Native educators
  • Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEVVazmoYN0
  • Part 2: (1) Self-Determination over Education – Virtual Coffeetime Series on Compacting Education – YouTube
  • Part 3: (1) Tribal Compacting over Education In Alaska – YouTube
  • Ernestine Hayes’ Keynote, 2018 FAI Social Justice Summit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPcGZvEVKfU
  • EJ David Keynote, 2018 FAI Social Justice Summit: 2018 Social Justice Summit – Day 2 Keynote Address by Dr. EJ R. David – YouTube
  • We Breathe Again – Vision Maker Media
    

  • Our Future Ancestors: A Story of Education in Alaska

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  • Articles:
  • The Conflicting Educations of Sam Schimmel: How An Alaskan Family — And Their Teenage Son — Overcome A Legacy Of Pain : Goats and Soda : NPR
  • Op-ed by Ayyu in ADN: https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/05/15/my-inupiaq-sons-graduation-cap-was-taken-away-thats-part-of-a-bigger-problem/
  • Paul Ongtooguk’s address to Alaska Native Education Summit – on www.Alaskool.org
  • When Uŋalaqłiq danced: stories of strength, suppression & hope: https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/11181 - MA Thesis by Vice President, Ayyu Qassataq looking into the history of missionization and education in her community of Uŋalaqłiq – brings to light some important history

• • Audio:
  • 2017 keynote by Vice President, Ayyu Qassataq on the history of missionization and education in her Community of Uŋalaqłiq (not a verbal rendition of her MA thesis, but shares similar information): https://www.knom.org/wp/blog/2017/10/06/leadership-summit-keynote-urges-hope-resolve-in-native-community/. Scroll to the bottom of the article for the audio.
    
    
  • Museums/Cultural Access/Decolonization
  • 2022 Webinar Series with Museums Alaska: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN9bg3w7aEL-rCGXWIqbhcag6Ik_vXhd_
  • A multi-part series on equity within museums hosted by FAI featuring incredible Alaska Native knowledge bearers across the state