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Fortuna Major Creative Co. is based out of the Connecticut River Valley in the towns of Easthampton and Northampton. The land on which each town has been built is the unceded homelands of the Pocumtuc, Nipmuc, and Nonotuck people. Surrounding us are the homelands of the Wampanoag to the East, the Mohegan and Pequot to the South, the Mohican to the West, and the Abenaki to the North.
Indigenous culture and connection to this land is not something merely rooted in the past. It is a rich and vibrant part of our present and future. Members of each of these Indigenous nations are alive and shaping our community today.
What Resources Can Support Me In Learning About Indigenous Culture, History, and Resistance?
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An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Reclamation Manifesto
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As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
by Leanne Betasmosake Simpson
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Land Back A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper
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Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition
by Glen Sean Coulthard
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Colonization and Decolonization – A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century
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Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
by Patty Krawec, foreword by Nick Estes
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The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book
by Gord Hill, foreword by Pamela Palmater