In My Blood It Runs is not just a film, it’s also a campaign for change. The Arrernte and Garrwa families and communities behind the film have guided a multi-year plan that dovetails the film release. You can support their solutions by backing their campaign focusing on three main goals: education reform, juvenile justice reform and anti-racism. Learn more at: www.inmyblooditruns.com/takeaction

We encourage you to seek out and discover more information about the Indigenous territory you are currently occupying.
Here is a tool to learn more: https://native-land.ca/.

You can also initiate a dialogue between a local Indigenous community organization or leader(s). This could look like having participants suggest Indigenous community members that they already know and/or researching the history of Indigenous people in their local area and then create a letter, email, or action plan to initiate communication between them as community members and the respective Indigenous community member/organization.

Thinking of your sphere of influence or networks, how can you support the agency of First Nations communities? This could be reading a book, donating to First Nations led cause or signing a petition. How can you practice allyship in your daily life?

RESOURCES

1. IIYC - an international organization centering Indigenous youth voices and supporting Indigneous communities through activism, education, and ceremony.
2. Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land - Native Land Digital is a Canadian not-for-profit organization, incorporated in December 2018. Native Land Digital is Indigenous-led, with an Indigenous Executive Director and Board of Directors who oversee and direct the organization.
3. Native American Children's Literature Recommended Reading List - A PDF of Indigenous literature created by the First Nations Development Institute
4. Indigenous Comic Con - Comic Con highlights the best in Native and Indigenous pop art and Indigenerdity.
5. Indigenous Cheerleader - Their mission is to REMEMBER, RECLAIM and RESTORE Indigenous languages and cultures to help create a better and more culturally-sustaining education for children and beyond.
6. Indigenous Education Tools - A program designed to develop resources and practices that will have exponential impacts on efforts to improve Native student success across a variety of sectors.
7. Home | SBI - Sovereign Bodies Institute (SBI) builds on Indigenous traditions of data gathering and knowledge transfer to create, disseminate, and put into action research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people.
8. Seeding Sovereignty - An Indigenous-led collective that works to shift social and environmental paradigms by dismantling colonial institutions and replacing them with Indigenous practices created in synchronicity with the land.
9. Settler Colonial City Project - a research collective focused on the collaborative production of knowledge about cities on Turtle Island/Abya Yala/The Americas as spaces of ongoing settler colonialism, Indigenous survivance, and struggles for decolonization.
10. The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition - Their vision is focused on Indigenous and cultural sovereignty. Their mission is to lead in pursuit of understanding and addressing the ongoing trauma created by the US Indian Boarding School policy.
11. Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools by Leilani Sabzalian - In this book, Leilani Sabzalian counters deficit framings of Indigenous students. One of her goals is to develop educators’ anticolonial literacy so that teachers can counter colonialism and better support Indigenous students in public schools.
12. An Indigenuos People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz In this book, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them.
13. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
14. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
15. We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom - Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption—a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade.