De/colonization Primer References
This post will serve as a frequently updated list of links/books/articles/etc. that can be used as primers to understanding de/colonization, and the sorts of histories and things we were/are not taught in schools or higher education for many different reasons. This list is not exhaustive, and there is a super large plethora of work on this multifaceted "field/topic," as it impacts EVERY aspect of daily life. So let your interests guide you. Enjoy!
**IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER stuff: This is a list I've compiled of things I have read or read/listen to regularly, and by NO MEANS is this list authoritative, nor is it necessarily representative of de/colonization throughout the whole planet. Many of these sources represent just my own research interests/life experiences/things I've stumbled upon/recommendations. That said, you may notice quite a bit of resources focused on gender/sexuality, a topic that can often get overlooked in de/colonization studies. If a part of the world is missing, this is/was not intentional, and I encourage you to fill in the gaps with your own interests/experiences. You may also notice items in languages other than English as well, but let that be a motivator to engage with other languages, and an indication of how important this work is. Also, I haven't included any Facebook pages to follow as that would be impractical given the huge huge amount there are. Many of the sources below can lead you to Facebook pages to follow. The internet can be a wonderful educational tool, so be sure use it wisely. Finally, I don't take any responsibility for what is posted on websites, broken links, opinions, etc., you know the usual "required warning" stuff. I hope you find this useful and insightful.
Books:
Public library links are through Worldcat.org
Barker, Joanne. (ed.). (2017). Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Duke University Press.
(public library link)
Calvo, Luz & Esquibel Catriona Rueda. (2015). Decolonize your diet: plant based Mexican-American recipes for health and diet. Arsenal pulp.
(public library link)
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. (2014). An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press.
(public library link)
Espinosa Miñoso, Y.; Gómez Correal, D. & Ochoa Muñoz, K. (eds.). (2014). Tejiendo de otro modo: Feminismo, epistemología y apuestas descoloniales en Abya Yala. Popayán, Colombia: Editorial Universidad del Cauca.
(public library link)
Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. (2017). The Revolution Will Not be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex: With a New Preface and Foreward. Durham and London Duke University Press.
(public library link)
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. (2014). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions.
(public library link)
Leroux, Darryl. (2019). Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press.
(public library link)
Mihesua, Devon A. & Hoover, Elizabeth (eds.). (2019). Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: restoring cultural knowledge, protecting environments, and regaining health. University of Oklahoma Press.
(public library link)
Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Viking. 1985.
(public library link)
Painter, Nell Irvin. (2011). The History of White People. W.W. Norton.
(public library link)
Pascoe, Bruce. (2018). Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture. Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation.
(public library link)
Rodríguez, C.O. (2018). Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain. Fernwood Books Ltd.
(public library link)
Shiva, Vandana (ed.). (2016). Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard of the Fight against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books.
(public library link)
Shiva, Vandana. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. 1997.
(public library link)
TallBear, Kim. (2013). Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
(public library link)
Tindall, D.B.; Trosper, Ronald L.; Perreault, Pamela. (2013). Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
(public library link)
Trask, Haunani-Kay. (1999). From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i. University of Hawai’i Press. (public library link)
Tuhiwai Smith, Linda. (1999). Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London, Zed Books.
(public library link)
Tzul Tzul, Gladys. Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimeq’ena’. Guatemala: SOCEE, Sociedad Comunitaria de Estudios Estratégicos: Tz’i’kin, Centro de Investigación y Pluralismo Jurídico: Maya’ Wuj Editorial. 2016.
(public library link)
Wilkerson, Isabel. (2011). The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Vintage.
(public library link)
Wilson, Shawn. (2008). Research is Ceremony: Indigenous research methods. Fernwood Publishing.
(public library link)
Book Chapters:
Curiel, O. (2015). Construyendo metodologías feministas desde el feminismo decolonial. In: Mendia Azkue, I.; Luxán, M.; Legarreta, M.; Guzmán, G.; Zirion, I. & Azpiazu Carballo, J. (edits.). Otras formas de (re)conocer. Reflexiones, herramientas y aplicaciones desde la investigación feminista. Donostia, Paíz Vasco. Universidad del Paíz Vasco/HEGOA, pp. 45-60.
Mendoza, Breny. (2010). La epistemología del sur, la colonialidad del género y el feminismo latinoamericano. In: Y. Espinosa Miñoso (coord.), Aproximaciones críticas a las prácticas teórico-políticas del feminismo latinoamericano. Buenos Aires, Argentina: En la frontera, Vol. 1, pp. 19-36.
Scholarly Articles:
Alfred, Taiaiake & Corntassel, Jeff. (2005). Being Indigenous: Resurgences against Contemporary Colonialism. Government and Opposition, 9: 597-614.
Espinosa Miñoso, Y. (2016). De por qué es necesario un feminismo descolonial: diferenciación, dominación co-constitutiva de la modernidad occidental y el fin de la política de identidad. Solar (12) 1:141-171.
Mendoza, B. (2001). La desmitologización del mestizaje en Honduras. Evaluando nuevos aportes. Mesoamérica, 22(42): 256-279.
(online link to PDF)
Riding In, James. (1992). Without Ethics and Morality: A Historical Overview of Imperial Archaeology and American Indians. Arizona State Law Review. 24:11.
Trask, Haunani-Kay. (1991). Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle. The Contemporary Pacific, 3(1):159-16.
(online link for PDF)
Tuck, E. & Wang, K.W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1):1-40.
(online link for PDF)
Verna St. Denis. (2011). Silencing Aboriginal Curricular Content and Perspectives Through Multiculturalism: "There Are Other Children Here." Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 33(4):306-317.
(online link for PDF)
Academic Journals:
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. Open Access Journal found at:
(https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des)
Journal of Global Indigeneity. Open Access Journal found at:
(https://www.journalofglobalindigeneity.com/)
Written Presentations/Speeches:
Lugones, M. Subjetividad esclava, colonialidad de género, marginalidad y opresiones múltiples. En: F. Conexiones, Pensando los feminismos en Bolivia. La Paz: Fondo emancipaciones, 2012, serie Foro 2.
(online link)
Video Presentations/Speeches:
Simpson, Audra (Dr.). (2014). The Chiefs Two Bodies: Theresa Spence and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty. RACE Networks 14th Annual Critical Race and Anticolonial Studies Conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton. Online Vimeo video can be found at:
(Vimeo video link)
Wilson, Alex (Dr.). (2016). Indigenous resurgence, body sovereignty and gender self-determination. Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speakers Series. University of Winnipeg. Online YouTube video can be found at:
(YouTube video link)
Podcasts/Podcast Episodes:
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Unreserved Podcast
(CBC Website link)
Chewing the Fat, Yale Podcasts. (July 19, 2019). Leah Penniman: A Food Justice Movement for All.
(Yale Podcasts Episode link) (Yale Podcast Network link)
Decolonized Buffalo Podcast:
(YouTube channel link)
For the Barrios Podcast. (September 16, 2019). S5 E5: Exploring Indigeneity.
(Soundcloud episode link) (Apple podcasts link)
For the Wild Podcast
(Podcast website link)
For the Wild Podcast. (February 13, 2019). Eriel Tchekwie Deranger on Solidarity with Unist’ot’en/107
(For the Wild Podcast episode link)
The Henceforward
(Podcast website link)
The Native Seed Pod: an antidote to the monoculture
(Podcast website)
Online Articles/News Sources:
Black Rainbow: Living Well. Creating More than Hope
(website link)
E-Tangata: A Māori and Pasifika Sunday Magazine
(website link)
IndigenousX: Showcasing & Celebrating Indigenous Diversity
(website link)
National Indigenous Television: Australian TV
(website link)
Native America Calling: Your National Electronic Talking Circle
(website link)
Resource Website Pages:
AIDESEP (Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana)
(website link)
Archiving the Aboriginal Rainbow: Aboriginal LGBTIQASGBB Archive and Portal
(Wordpress website link)
Takatāpui: A Resource Hub
(website link)
Teaching Decolonization Resource Collection (National History Center)
(website link)
The Decolonial Atlas:
(Wordpress website link)
(Facebook page link)
Zolla, Carlos & Zolla Márquez, Emiliano. Los Pueblos Indígenas de México: 100 Preguntas, Segunda Edición Actualizada. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
(UNAM Website Link)
Documentaries:
Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation. Independent Television Service, in association with the Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai’i. 1991.
Conscience Point. PBS Independent Lens Series. November 18, 2019.
(PBS Full Film Link)
Online Audiovisual Videos/Resources:
1491: The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus. (2017). Animiki See Digital Production & Aarrow Productions.
(TV Series Website)
68voces animated series. Vimeo Channel can be found at:
(Vimeo channel link)
AJ+ Francais. (October 19, 2019). D’où viennent les frontières des pays africains et pourquoi certaines semblent avoir été “découpées à la hache” ?
(Twitter video link)
Desinformémonos
(YouTube channel online link)
National Geographic. (2017). Third Gender: An Entrancing Look at Mexico’s Muxes. Short Film Showcase. Online video can be viewed at:
(YouTube video link)
**IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER stuff: This is a list I've compiled of things I have read or read/listen to regularly, and by NO MEANS is this list authoritative, nor is it necessarily representative of de/colonization throughout the whole planet. Many of these sources represent just my own research interests/life experiences/things I've stumbled upon/recommendations. That said, you may notice quite a bit of resources focused on gender/sexuality, a topic that can often get overlooked in de/colonization studies. If a part of the world is missing, this is/was not intentional, and I encourage you to fill in the gaps with your own interests/experiences. You may also notice items in languages other than English as well, but let that be a motivator to engage with other languages, and an indication of how important this work is. Also, I haven't included any Facebook pages to follow as that would be impractical given the huge huge amount there are. Many of the sources below can lead you to Facebook pages to follow. The internet can be a wonderful educational tool, so be sure use it wisely. Finally, I don't take any responsibility for what is posted on websites, broken links, opinions, etc., you know the usual "required warning" stuff. I hope you find this useful and insightful.
Books:
Public library links are through Worldcat.org
Barker, Joanne. (ed.). (2017). Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Duke University Press.
(public library link)
Calvo, Luz & Esquibel Catriona Rueda. (2015). Decolonize your diet: plant based Mexican-American recipes for health and diet. Arsenal pulp.
(public library link)
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. (2014). An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press.
(public library link)
Espinosa Miñoso, Y.; Gómez Correal, D. & Ochoa Muñoz, K. (eds.). (2014). Tejiendo de otro modo: Feminismo, epistemología y apuestas descoloniales en Abya Yala. Popayán, Colombia: Editorial Universidad del Cauca.
(public library link)
Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. (2017). The Revolution Will Not be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex: With a New Preface and Foreward. Durham and London Duke University Press.
(public library link)
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. (2014). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions.
(public library link)
Leroux, Darryl. (2019). Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity. Winnipeg, Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press.
(public library link)
Mihesua, Devon A. & Hoover, Elizabeth (eds.). (2019). Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: restoring cultural knowledge, protecting environments, and regaining health. University of Oklahoma Press.
(public library link)
Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Viking. 1985.
(public library link)
Painter, Nell Irvin. (2011). The History of White People. W.W. Norton.
(public library link)
Pascoe, Bruce. (2018). Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture. Magabala Books Aboriginal Corporation.
(public library link)
Rodríguez, C.O. (2018). Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Oppression and Pain. Fernwood Books Ltd.
(public library link)
Shiva, Vandana (ed.). (2016). Seed Sovereignty, Food Security: Women in the Vanguard of the Fight against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books.
(public library link)
Shiva, Vandana. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. 1997.
(public library link)
TallBear, Kim. (2013). Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
(public library link)
Tindall, D.B.; Trosper, Ronald L.; Perreault, Pamela. (2013). Aboriginal Peoples and Forest Lands in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
(public library link)
Trask, Haunani-Kay. (1999). From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i. University of Hawai’i Press. (public library link)
Tuhiwai Smith, Linda. (1999). Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples. London, Zed Books.
(public library link)
Tzul Tzul, Gladys. Sistemas de gobierno comunal indígena: mujeres y tramas de parentesco en Chuimeq’ena’. Guatemala: SOCEE, Sociedad Comunitaria de Estudios Estratégicos: Tz’i’kin, Centro de Investigación y Pluralismo Jurídico: Maya’ Wuj Editorial. 2016.
(public library link)
Wilkerson, Isabel. (2011). The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration. Vintage.
(public library link)
Wilson, Shawn. (2008). Research is Ceremony: Indigenous research methods. Fernwood Publishing.
(public library link)
Book Chapters:
Curiel, O. (2015). Construyendo metodologías feministas desde el feminismo decolonial. In: Mendia Azkue, I.; Luxán, M.; Legarreta, M.; Guzmán, G.; Zirion, I. & Azpiazu Carballo, J. (edits.). Otras formas de (re)conocer. Reflexiones, herramientas y aplicaciones desde la investigación feminista. Donostia, Paíz Vasco. Universidad del Paíz Vasco/HEGOA, pp. 45-60.
Mendoza, Breny. (2010). La epistemología del sur, la colonialidad del género y el feminismo latinoamericano. In: Y. Espinosa Miñoso (coord.), Aproximaciones críticas a las prácticas teórico-políticas del feminismo latinoamericano. Buenos Aires, Argentina: En la frontera, Vol. 1, pp. 19-36.
Scholarly Articles:
Alfred, Taiaiake & Corntassel, Jeff. (2005). Being Indigenous: Resurgences against Contemporary Colonialism. Government and Opposition, 9: 597-614.
Espinosa Miñoso, Y. (2016). De por qué es necesario un feminismo descolonial: diferenciación, dominación co-constitutiva de la modernidad occidental y el fin de la política de identidad. Solar (12) 1:141-171.
Mendoza, B. (2001). La desmitologización del mestizaje en Honduras. Evaluando nuevos aportes. Mesoamérica, 22(42): 256-279.
(online link to PDF)
Riding In, James. (1992). Without Ethics and Morality: A Historical Overview of Imperial Archaeology and American Indians. Arizona State Law Review. 24:11.
Trask, Haunani-Kay. (1991). Natives and Anthropologists: The Colonial Struggle. The Contemporary Pacific, 3(1):159-16.
(online link for PDF)
Tuck, E. & Wang, K.W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1):1-40.
(online link for PDF)
Verna St. Denis. (2011). Silencing Aboriginal Curricular Content and Perspectives Through Multiculturalism: "There Are Other Children Here." Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 33(4):306-317.
(online link for PDF)
Academic Journals:
Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society. Open Access Journal found at:
(https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des)
Journal of Global Indigeneity. Open Access Journal found at:
(https://www.journalofglobalindigeneity.com/)
Written Presentations/Speeches:
Lugones, M. Subjetividad esclava, colonialidad de género, marginalidad y opresiones múltiples. En: F. Conexiones, Pensando los feminismos en Bolivia. La Paz: Fondo emancipaciones, 2012, serie Foro 2.
(online link)
Video Presentations/Speeches:
Simpson, Audra (Dr.). (2014). The Chiefs Two Bodies: Theresa Spence and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty. RACE Networks 14th Annual Critical Race and Anticolonial Studies Conference. University of Alberta, Edmonton. Online Vimeo video can be found at:
(Vimeo video link)
Wilson, Alex (Dr.). (2016). Indigenous resurgence, body sovereignty and gender self-determination. Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speakers Series. University of Winnipeg. Online YouTube video can be found at:
(YouTube video link)
Podcasts/Podcast Episodes:
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Unreserved Podcast
(CBC Website link)
Chewing the Fat, Yale Podcasts. (July 19, 2019). Leah Penniman: A Food Justice Movement for All.
(Yale Podcasts Episode link) (Yale Podcast Network link)
Decolonized Buffalo Podcast:
(YouTube channel link)
For the Barrios Podcast. (September 16, 2019). S5 E5: Exploring Indigeneity.
(Soundcloud episode link) (Apple podcasts link)
For the Wild Podcast
(Podcast website link)
For the Wild Podcast. (February 13, 2019). Eriel Tchekwie Deranger on Solidarity with Unist’ot’en/107
(For the Wild Podcast episode link)
The Henceforward
(Podcast website link)
The Native Seed Pod: an antidote to the monoculture
(Podcast website)
Online Articles/News Sources:
Black Rainbow: Living Well. Creating More than Hope
(website link)
E-Tangata: A Māori and Pasifika Sunday Magazine
(website link)
IndigenousX: Showcasing & Celebrating Indigenous Diversity
(website link)
National Indigenous Television: Australian TV
(website link)
Native America Calling: Your National Electronic Talking Circle
(website link)
Resource Website Pages:
AIDESEP (Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana)
(website link)
Archiving the Aboriginal Rainbow: Aboriginal LGBTIQASGBB Archive and Portal
(Wordpress website link)
Takatāpui: A Resource Hub
(website link)
Teaching Decolonization Resource Collection (National History Center)
(website link)
The Decolonial Atlas:
(Wordpress website link)
(Facebook page link)
Zolla, Carlos & Zolla Márquez, Emiliano. Los Pueblos Indígenas de México: 100 Preguntas, Segunda Edición Actualizada. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
(UNAM Website Link)
Documentaries:
Act of War: The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation. Independent Television Service, in association with the Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai’i. 1991.
Conscience Point. PBS Independent Lens Series. November 18, 2019.
(PBS Full Film Link)
Online Audiovisual Videos/Resources:
1491: The Untold Story of the Americas Before Columbus. (2017). Animiki See Digital Production & Aarrow Productions.
(TV Series Website)
68voces animated series. Vimeo Channel can be found at:
(Vimeo channel link)
AJ+ Francais. (October 19, 2019). D’où viennent les frontières des pays africains et pourquoi certaines semblent avoir été “découpées à la hache” ?
(Twitter video link)
Desinformémonos
(YouTube channel online link)
National Geographic. (2017). Third Gender: An Entrancing Look at Mexico’s Muxes. Short Film Showcase. Online video can be viewed at:
(YouTube video link)
Online Indigenous Film Festival (OIFF) - International Year of Indigenous Languages 2019 - Multilingual Playlist. YouTube Playlist can be viewed at:
(YouTube video playlist link)
Radio New Zealand. (October 21, 2019). He Kākano Ahau: Episode 3 - Decolonising Gender & Sexuality In Wellington City.
(YouTube video link)
Radio New Zealand. (October 20, 2019). Decolonisation.
(YouTube video link)
Re: Rediscovering Aotearoa: a decolonisation series.
(Re:news website link)
Reimagining Equity and Access for Diverse Youth: Module 6. Indigeneity and Colonialism. Free online module found at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:
(online module link)
Thinking Africa. (2019). Delphine Abadie - Philosophie Africaine, Decolonisation et Reconstructions. YouTube video can be viewed at:
(YouTube video link)
University of Otago, Wellington. (September 23, 2019). Deconstructing the Doctrine of Discovery.
(YouTube video link)
Zapatista Organización. (2004). Zapatistas - Crónica de una Rebelión. Canalseisdejulio.
(YouTube video link)
Critical Thinking Pieces/Videos, etc.:
bandcamp daily. The Sound of Hip-Hop in Aotearoa
(Online article link)
How the Chican@ Discourse Silences Indigenous Peoples from Mexico + Central Americans
(medium.com article link)
Sacheen Littlefeather on behalf of Marlon Brando refusing to accept award for the GF
(YouTube video link)
My Thoughts on Indigeneity, as an Indigenous Person
(dichosdeunbicho.com article link)
Special Broadcasting Service. (Dec. 12, 2019). The First Nations Artists That Should Be In Your Musical Rotation.
(SBS article link)
Tehran Toronto. (April 9, 2012). Taiaiake Alfred: Practical Decolonization.
(YouTube video link)
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