Education is the key to awareness. Awareness is the key to intentional change.
Below is a list of resources tailored by Shane Weeks and other artists featured in OTEC.
The books mentioned here can be found in the library of the Queens Museum during the duration of the
Of The Earth: Connections Exhibition.

Good Neighbors
A Shinnecock History From A Shinnecock Perspective
By: Shane Weeks

Natick Dictionary
A New England Indian Lexicon
By: James Hammond Trumbull
Introduction by Edward Everette Hale
New Introduction By: R. D. Madison and Karen Lentz Madison

Native Harvests
American Indian Wild Foods and Recipes
By: E. Barrie Kavasch

The Algonquian Peoples of Long Island From Earliest Times to 1700
By: John A. Strong

"Lords of the Soil" A Romance of Indian Life Among Early English Settlers
By: Lydia A. Joselyn

The Unkechaug Indians Of Eastern Long Island
By: John A. Strong

The Mishomis Book
The Voice of the Ojibway
By: Edward Benton-Banai

America's Early Whalemen
Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650-1750
By: John A Strong

"We Are Still Here!"
The ALgonquian Peoples of Long Island Today
By: John A. Strong

Ancient Native Artifacts of Eastern Long Island
Projectile Points
By: Ephraim Horowitz
Lucinda Hemmick
With an Introduction by
Chief Harry Wallace

The Ethnology of the Salinan Indians
By: John Alden Mason

Tapa Samples From Polynesia
By: Robert D. Craig and Vernice W. Pere
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