9 WAYS TO CREATE CHANGE AND SUPPORT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

By Marissa LaMagna, Kelly Wang, and Patricia Hunting

To celebrate Indigenous Heritage Month, we'd like to share some calls to action and resources to support indigenous communities and learn more about the issues they face.
Here are 9 actions you can take to support indigenous communities, as well as recommended books and videos to learn more.

• Donate to BAGT to continue our educational programming on indigenous issues or to our partner,  Indian Canyon .
• Donate to local Bay Area indigenous communities: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and The Sogorea Te Land Trust.
• Educate yourself on your local tribal history and sacred site struggles. 
• Work towards Including native people’s history and voices in school curricula.
• Learn about local tribal-led environmental movements.
• Contribute to ongoing native land taxes or land preservation efforts.
• Find out if there are any indigenous restaurants in your area you can support. 
• If you have access to land and are interested in land repatriation to Indigenous people, begin building relationships with people and see if there is interest in local land returns.
• Find out what indigenous land you inhabit.

Recommended books
Indigenous Peoples' Day reading list from Heyday books 
An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir
Enough for All
Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America

Videos
6 Stories Celebrating Native American History and Culture

California-centric
How This Native American Elder Reclaimed Sacred Land in the Bay Area| KQED Truly CA
ISHI / THE LAST OF HIS BAND OF YAHI INDIANS
History of Native California
Native Americans : We Shall Remain | LoVina Louie | TEDxCoeurdalene
In the Land of my Ancestors 
Wild and Feral Edibles (with John Farais)


At BAGT this month, we collaborated with Indian Canyon in Hollister, CA, chef John Farais of Indigenous Edibles and Visit.org to produce our Virtual Team Building programs. . Virtual Team Building provides online, interactive experiences with the mission of engaging, educating, and empowering people all over the world on sustainability issues. 

Do you know of an organization that is working remotely and could benefit from a mission-driven team-building experience? If so, please check us out and help spread the word about Virtual Team Building with BAGT!