Research Guides: Common Reading 2022-23: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants: Community, Citizenship, and Belonging

"What does it mean to be the people of the seventh fire, to walk back along the ancestral road and pick up what was left behind? How do we recognize what we should reclaim and what is dangerous refuse? What is truly medicine for the living earth and what is a drug of deception? None of us can recognize every piece, let alone carry it all. We need each other, to take a song, a word, a story, a tool, a ceremony and put it in our bundles. Not for ourselves, but for the ones yet to be born, for all our relations. Collectively, we assemble from the wisdom of the past a vision for the future, a worldview shaped by mutual flourishing."

Braiding Sweetgrass, Shkitagen: People of the Seventh Fire (p. 371).

Federally Recognized Tribes of Oregon

Map of Territories from Native Land

There are nine Federally Recognized Tribes of Oregon. The following are links to each tribe's website. There are over 40 additional tribes across multiple states that are recognized as Native American tribes that had traditional and customary tribal boundaries in parts of the state of Oregon or that ceded or reserved lands within the state of Oregon. A full list can be found on the UO's Residence Classification for Members of Oregon Tribes webpage:

Burns Paiute Tribe
Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Indian Reservation
Coquille Indian Tribe
Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians
Klamath Tribes
Residence Classification for Members of Oregon Tribes (UO Admissions)
Native Land (interactive map)
An interactive map of the territories of indigenous people around the globe. A few of our major guidelines include: Representing Indigenous nations and people on their own terms and not trying to an “arbiter” of truth when it comes to territory claims, increasing representation and real power of Indigenous people in our organization and with our partners, and enhancing the visibility and strength of Indigenous history, narratives that combat colonialism, and education initiatives
Native Land (territories list)
Look up specific indigenous peoples or browse the full list of groups included in the interactive map (linked above). Native Land Digital is a Canadian not-for-profit organization designed to be Indigenous-led, with an Indigenous Board of Directors who oversee and direct the organization.

Research Tools

Finding Scholarly Articles

Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.

Related Research Guide for more in-depth research:

Native American and Indigenous Studies
by Miriam Rigby Last Updated Jun 24, 2024 3357 views this year

Connecting & Community

Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Transnational and Transcultural Indigeneity in the Twenty-First Century by Maximilian C. Forte (Editor) What happens to indigenous culture and identity when being rooted in a fixed cultural setting is no longer necessary - or even possible? Does cultural displacement mean that indigeneity vanishes? How is being and becoming indigenous (i.e., indigeneity) experienced and practiced along translocal pathways? How are «new» philosophies and politics of indigenous identification (indigenism) constructed in «new», translocal settings? The essays in this collection develop our understandings of cosmopolitanism and transnationalism, and related processes and experiences of social and cultural globalization, showing us that these do not spell the end of ways of being and becoming indigenous. Instead, indigeneity is reengaged in wider fields, finding alternative ways of being established and projected, or bolstering older ways of doing so, while reaching out to other cultures.
Call Number: GN380 .I5185 2010 (Knight Library - General Collection)
Publication Date: 2010