The Antidote: Resources + Further Reading

This photograph shows a recently built mud lodge standing near the former boy's dormitory of the defunct Pawnee Indian boarding school on the Pawnee reservation in Oklahoma. It symbolizes the cultural resiliency of the Pawnee people to withstand and outlast harmful federal policies of ethnocide and coercive assimilation.

—Dr. James Riding In, April 22, 2023

Map of Pawnee lands, from Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations (National Museum of the American Indian and Smithsonian Books, 2014). @ Smithsonian Institute

The Mukurtu Portal (still under construction) can be accessed here.

The Mukurtu Portal will provide valuable information about Pawnee history and culture, including treaties, government documents, newspaper articles, court cases, first hand narratives, photographs, newspaper articles, works of fiction, and traditional ecological knowledge. With the project’s federal funding ending, the work continues through the efforts of volunteers and donors. For more information on ways to support this project, contact mukurtuportalinfo@gmail.com

More Resources

• The Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliaton Project

• Settler Schools, Indigenous Stories

• Nation to Nation: 10 Bad Acts / Bad Paper

• “The United States v. Yellow Sun et al." (The Pawnee People): A Case Study of Institutional and Societal Racism and U.S. Justice in Nebraska from the 1850s to 1870s,” by James Riding In, first published in the Wicazo Sa Review, Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2002, and anthologized in Native Historians Write Back: Decolonizing American Indian History, ed. Susan A. Miller and James Riding In

• What is History? Frontier Encounters in Northwest Nebraska, Broc Anderson    

      

• Reconciliation Rising

  A multimedia project that showcases the lives and work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the U.S. who are engaged in honestly confronting painful and traumatic histories, promoting meaningful and respectful dialogue between Natives and non-Natives, and creating pathways to reconciliation.

• Descendants of Dewitty / Audacious, NE

• No Empires, No Wastelands: Ecological Solidarity for the 21st Century, Hannah Holleman

• Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of “Green” Capitalism, Hannah Holleman

• The Cost of Free Land: Jews, the Lakota, and an American Inheritance, by Rebecca Clarren

• Regenerative Agriculture and the Future of Viticulture: In Conversation with Mimi Casteel

• Profile of Mimi Casteel

• Podcasts and Presentations, Mimi Casteel

• Pawnee Seed Preservation Society

• The Gordon Parks Foundation

• Dorothea Lange, Black and White Negatives

• Arthur Rothstein and his controversial cow skull photograph, Errol Morris

• The Real Lives of People in Dorothea Lange’s Photographs  

• Library of Congress: RA / FSA Photographs

• Library of Congress: Black and White Negatives

• Documents and Propaganda: The Photographs of the Farm Security Administration, Michael L. Carlebach

• The Plow that Broke the Plains, Pare Lorentz

• The Duplicate File: New Insights into the FSA, Mary Jane Appel

• The Kept and the Killed by Erica X Eisen

• William E Jones: Punctured

• Fallen Women, Federated Charities, and Maternity Homes, Marian J. Morton

• The Nebraska Industrial Home for Unwed Mothers, Milford, NE

• Gentle River Goes Mad: The Republican River Flood of 1935

• The Dust Bowl: Black Sunday, PBS