Resources

Cultural Mapping Toolkit

Cultural mapping is a valuable tool for identifying a community’s strengths and its resources. This toolkit was developed by the Province of British Columbia in 2010.

GENIAL: Generating Engagement and New Initiatives for All Latinos

This paper, coauthored by Avarna Group facilitator and founder of Latino Outdoors José Gonzålez, works to complicate the stereotypes organizations have in working with the Latinx community and provides useful guidelines for doing equitable community engagement work. This will be useful for any organization engaging in stakeholder and community engagement, generally, and in particular for organizations working to better engage the “Latinx” or “Hispanic” communities.

Principles of Environmental Justice

Drafted in 1991, the Principles of Environmental Justice establish guidance for all what environmental justice truly means. Read the preamble and principles here.

Jemez Principles

Drafted in 1996 during a meeting hosted by Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice (SNEEJ), Jemez, New Mexico, Dec. 1996, the Jemez Principles provide 6 guiding principles for democratic organizing. Read more here.

The Ways

The Ways is an online collection of videos, stories, maps and information about the Great Lakes Native communities. The creators help us learn and explore concepts of connection to land, animals, and language in the Great Lakes Native communities. Check out more here.

Instructor Bias Self Assessment

This checklist is great for outdoor, experiential, and environmental educators (as well as traditional educators) to assess how bias might be manifesting in their teaching and to mitigate bias in any classroom, indoor and outside.

Interactive maps of indigenous dispossession of land

There are two great resources that are constantly updated and both worth keeping up with.

1. This interactive map built by Claudio Saunt shows the dispossession of indigenous land from the late 1700’s to the late 1800’s. If you click on different parts of the map, a pop up will give you information and links to relevant treaties, laws, and executive orders that legalized the dispossession. Explore more here.

2. Another interactive map that shows relevant treaties, languages spoken, and territories. Explore more of this map here.

The Green Movement Is Talking About Racism? It’s About Time

Brentin Mock connects the dots between the history of environmentalism and its legacy of racism by discussing some lesser known history. Read here.

“How Black Books Lit My Way Along The Appalachian Trail”

In this essay, Rahawa Haile, describes her journey along the Appalachian Trail as a black Eritrean-American woman. She discusses the important role that books by black authors played along her journey, as well as her complex feelings about being in such a white space. Read more here.

Toolkit on Implementing the President’s Memo on Diversity & Inclusion in Public Lands & Waters

We built this toolkit to help you implement the Presidential Memorandum issued on January 12th, 2017. The memo is available online here. The toolkit is attached.