November BOTM Media Map
Take a break from reading Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass and check out some of our favorite music, books, films or Instagram accounts with related themes or by Indigenous creators!
ID: A screen cap taken from the film I Dream in Another Language depicting two young men in swim trunks embracing one another, walking away from the ocean line toward two older men who are seated in one green and one blue lawn chair, facing away from the viewer. The older men are wearing sun hats.
Books
Works with an Environmental Focus
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism by Murray Bookchin
Indigenizing Philosophy Through the Land: A Trickster Methodology for Decolonizing Environmental Ethics and Indigenous Futures by Brian Burkhart
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature by Sue Stuart Smith
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People and Planet by Leah Thomas
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Works by Indigenous Authors
A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
This Town Sleeps by Dennis E. Staples
There There by Tommy Orange
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
We Are The Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail
White Magic by Elissa Washuta
Writing Home: Indigenous Narratives of Resistance by Michael D. Wilson
The Language Warrior’s Manifesto by Anton Treuer
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard, Juana Martinez-Neal
Making Love With the Land: Essays by Joshua Whitehead
I am Woman: A Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle
TV & Film
Reservation Dogs (2021-)
I Dream in Another Language (2017)
The Last Forest (2021)
MartÃrio (2016)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
Utopia (2013)
Whale Rider (2002)
Roma (2018)
The Golden Dream (2023)
Podcasts
All My Relations (@amrpodcast)
Artists on Writers Writers on Artists
Instagram Accounts to Follow
Food, Agriculture & Environmentalism
Columbus-specific
@franklintonfarms
@studentfarmosu
@blackforager
@agrowingculture
@intersectionalenvironmentalist
@acres4change
@acresofancestry
@appetiteforchange
@blackchurchfsn
@cosecha_harvest
@dreamofwildhealth
@awesome_herbs_MT
@growwhereyouare
@planting.justice
@slowfoodusa
@NEFOClandtrust
@lizwathuti
Indigenous Creators
@indigenousgoddessgang
@linda.black.elk
@nativeconservancy
@iiycfamily
@skidskunx
@indigenouspunxarchive
@theindigenousfoundation
@wellreadnative
@winonaladuke
@thevintagejesus
@elizabethdre_
Music
Check out:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Link Wray
Jimi Hendrix
Additional Resources
Buckeye Food Alliance (Ohio State Students)
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Did we miss anything?
Tell us what you've been reading, watching, or listening to alongside Braiding Sweetgrass. Shoot us an email at harcoverhotties@gmail.com or a DM on Instagram @hardcoverhotties!