ADDITIONAL TEXTS AND RESEARCH

Exhibition Bibliography

From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments

Organized by contributor and type of content

Armory

ORAL HISTORIES AND PRIMARY SOURCES

BOOKS

  • Miranda, Deborah. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir. California: Heyday Books, 2012.
  • Dillon, Grace L, ed. Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, Mar. 2012. 
  • Marques, Pedro Neves, ed. YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds: Gender, Ecology, Science Fiction. London: Sternberg Press, Feb. 2022. 

ESSAYS/ARTICLES/REPORTS, ETC.

  • Aima, Rachel. “Secret Gardens: Rachel Aima on Maria Thereza Alves’s Seeds of Change.” Artforum, Volume 56, No. 10 (Summer 2018).
  • Demos, T.J. “Art After Nature: The Post-Natural Condition.” Artforum, Vol. 50, No. 8 (April 2012).
  • Vaughn-Lee, Emmanuel. “Reseeding the Food System: An Interview with Rowen White.” Emergence Magazine, Oct. 11, 2019. https://emergencemagazine.org/interview/reseeding-the-food-system/

VIDEO MEDIA

  • Jordi, Ayo Ngozi Drayton, and Sade Musa. Panel Discussion. “Keepers of Ancestral Medicine Panel-2021 SCG National Day of Racial Healing.” Jan 19, 2021. Hosted by Southern California Grantmakers, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsVtlaxdnUE.

Marcus Zuñíga 

ORAL HISTORIES AND PRIMARY SOURCES

ESSAYS/ARTICLES/REPORTS, ETC.

  • Garcia, Santiago Andrés, and Claudia Itzel Márquez. 2021. “Cultivating Positive Health, Learning, and Community: The Return of Mesoamerica’s Quetzalcoatl and the Venus Star” Genealogy 5, no. 2: 53. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy5020053.

VIDEO MEDIA

  • Franklin, Carl, dir. Bless Me, Ultima. 2013. New Mexico, CA: Monkey Hill Films, 2013. 
  • Guzman, Patricio, dir. Nostalgia for the Light. 2011. Chile: Atacama Productions and Icarus Films, 2010. Streaming. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.52a9f765-a0ca-829e-166a-3c3ebbca3086?autoplay=0&ref_=atv_cf_strg_wb.
  • Martinez, Leslie, Tanya Aguiñiga, and Amalia Mesa-Bains. Panel Discussion. X as Intersection: Material Constellations. Oct 24,  2022. Hosted by Whitney Museum of American Art and U.S. Latinx Art Forum,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLbCt8UBBgU.

Olivia Chumacero 

ORAL HISTORIES AND PRIMARY SOURCES

  • Cindi Alvitre. Tongva. Ti’at Society/ Traditional Council of Pimu.
  • Dr. Cahuilla Red Elk PhD. Cahuilla/Lakota. Traditional Elder/Veteran SunDancer 51 years to date/Attorney for Human Rights and The People’s Advocate.
  • Loreen Sisquoc. Apache/Cahuilla. Sherman Indian High School, Cultural Traditions Leader/Museum Curator/Environmental Activist.
  • Ron Goode. North Fork Mono. Cultural Traditions Elder/ Storyteller/ Environmental Activist/ Author.
  • Rhoda Hunter. Tule River Yokut. Cultural Traditions Elder/ Indigenous Activist for Water.

BOOKS

  • Lawrence, Ellen. Extreme Trees: And How They Got That Way (Plantology). Minnesota: Bearport Publishing Company, 2014.
  • Mann, Charles C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 2005. 
  • Munz, Philip A. California Mountain Wildflowers. California: University of California Press, 1972.
  • Stuart, John D., John O. Sawyer and Andrea J. Pickart. Trees and Shrubs of California. California: University of California Press, 2001.
  • Wenk, Elizabeth. Wildflowers of the High Sierra and John Muir Trail. United States:Wilderness Press, 2015.
  • Wohlleben, Peter. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate; Discoveries from a Secret World. Translated by Jane Billinghurst. Vancouver, CA: Greystone Books, 2015.

ESSAYS/ARTICLES/ REPORTS, ETC.

  • Cone, Maria. “Can the Santa Ana River Be Revived? : Environment: The EPA says polluted waterway should be cleaned up. State local officials say that’s unrealistic.” Los Angeles Times, Jan. 13, 1991. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-13-mn-449-story.html.
  • Oreskes, Naomi. “Wishful Thinking in Climate Science.” Scientific American, 327 (Aug 2022): 2, 90.

Enid Baxter Ryce

ORAL HISTORIES AND PRIMARY SOURCES

BOOKS

  • Adrosko, Rita J. Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing. New York: Dover Publications, 1971.
  • Bearfoot, Will. Mother Nature’s Dyes and Fibers. New York: Scribner, 1975. 
  • Beth Norton, Mary. In the Devil’s Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1962. New York: Vintage Books, 2003. 
  • Burgess, Rebecca. Harvesting Color: How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes. New York: Artisan, 2011.
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Dye Plants and Dyeing – A Handbook. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1964. 
  • Cannon, Margaret, et al. Dye Plants and Dyeing. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, Incorporated, 2003.
  • Colton, Mary R.F. Hopi Dyes. Flagstaff, Arizona: Museum of Northern America, 1965.
  • DeLay, Brian. War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S. Mexican War (The Lamar Series in Western History). Hartford, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
  • Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. Edited by Paul Hawken. New York: Penguin Books, 2017. 
  • Furry, Margaret S. and Bass M. Viemont. Home Dyeing with Natural Dyes. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, 1934.
  • Goff, John H. Placenames of Georgia: Essays of John H. Groff. Edited by Francis Lee Utley and Marion R. Hemperley. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1975. 
  • Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.
  • Green, Kristen. The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s most Notorious Slave Jail. New York: Seal Press, 2022.
  • Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. California: University of California Press, 1970.
  • Hayes, Derek. Historical Atlas of the American West: With Original Maps. California: University of California Press, 2009. 
  • Irvin Painter, Nell. The History of White People. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011. 
  • Jefferson, Thomas. The Garden and Farm Books. Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 2002 (reprinting). 
  • Khandekar, Narayan. An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour: The Harvard Art Museums’ Forbes Pigment Collection. Los Angeles, CA: Atelier Editions, 2019. 
  • Langland, William. Piers Plowman. Published by author, 1367-1386.
  • Lee, David. Nature’s Palette: The Science of Plant Color. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 
  • Lepore, Jill. The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity. New York: Vintage Books, 1999. 
  • Logan, Jason. Make Ink: A Forager’s Guide to Natural Inkmaking. New York: Abrams Books, 2018. 
  • Meadows, Donella H. Thinking in Systems. Edited by Diana Wright. Hartford, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.
  • Neddo, Nick. The Organic Artist: Make Your Own Paint, Paper, Pigments, Prints and More from Nature. Gloucester, MA: Quarry Books, 2015. 
  • Nonabah G. Bryan. Navajo Native Dyes: Their Preparation and Use. Compiled by Stella Young and illustrated by Charles Keetsie Shirley. Chilocco, Oklahoma: Chilocco Agricultural School Printing Department, 1940.
  • Ridgway, Robert et al. Color Standards and Color Nomenclature. Published by author, 1912.
  • Shepard, Mark. Restoration Agriculture. Colorado: Acres U.S.A, 2013.
  • Simard, Suzanne. Finding the Mother Tree. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
  • St. Clair, Kassia. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History. London, UK: John Murray, 2018.
  • St. Clair, Kassia. The Secret Lives of Color. New York: Penguin Books, 2017.
  • Stewart, George R. Names on the Land: A Historical Account of the Place-Naming in the United States. New York: NYRB Classics, 2008. 
  • Stilgoe, John. Shallow Water Dictionary. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. 
  • Stilgoe, John. What is Landscape?. Boston, MA: The MIT Press, 2018.
  • Thoreau, Henry David. “Walking.” in Excursions. Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1863.
  • Truettner, William H. The West as America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian, 1991.
  • Wall Kimmerer, Robin. Braiding Sweetgrass: Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis, MN:Milkweed Editions, 2013.

ESSAYS/ARTICLES/ REPORTS, ETC.

  • Flavelle, Christopher. “Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns.” The New York Times, Aug 8, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/08/climate/climate-change-food-supply.html
  • “Geography of the Holocaust.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/gallery/geography-of-the-holocaust.
  • Klein, Shana. “The Fruits of Empire: Contextualizing Food in Post-Civil War American Art and Culture.” 2015. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/arth_etds/6.
  • “Salad Bowl of the World: 2021 Monterey County Crop & Livestock Report.”Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner, 2021. https://www.co.monterey.ca.us/home/showpublisheddocument/113214.
  • Whitlock, Cathy et al. “2017 Montana Climate Assessment.” Bozeman and Missoula, MT: Montana State University and University of Montana, Montana Institute on Ecosystems. 318 p. doi:10.15788/m2ww8w.

MISC

  • AgKnowledge, materials and notes. Western Growers Association Fellowship. 2019.

David Delgado Shorter 

ORAL HISTORIES AND PRIMARY SOURCES

BOOKS

  • Abram, David.The Spell of the Sensuous. New York, New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1997.
  • Capture, George H. The Seven Visions of Bull Lodge: as told by his daughter, Garter Snake. Gathered by Fred P. Gone. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1980.
  • Finley, Susan. “Arts-Based Inquiry: Performing Revolutionary Pedagogy” in Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research, edited by J. Gary Knowles and Ardra L. Cole. Los Angeles/London: Sage Publishing, 2007.
  • Gill, Sam D. Beyond ‘The Primitive’: The Religions of Nonliterate Peoples. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.,1982.
  • Hallowell, A. Irving. “Ojibwa Ontology, Behavior and World View” in Primitive Views of the World, edited by Stanley Diamond, 141-178. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. 
  • Irwin, Lee. “Culture, Dreams and Theory” in The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains, 9 -25. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.
  • Molina, Felipe S. and David Delgado Shorter. “The Living Beautiful Part of Our Present World: The Yoeme Sea Ania (Flower World)” in Flower Worlds: Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest, edited by Michael Mathiowetz and Andrew Turner, 70-85. Arizona, University of Arizona Press, 2022. 
  • Sarris, Greg. “Medicine Woman” in Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (Portraits of American Genius), 69-121. California: University of California Press: 1997. 
  • Smith, Linda T. “Colonizing Knowledges” in Decolonizing Methodologies, 58-77. London, Zed Books, 2012. 
  • Wall Kimmerer, Robin. “Learning the Grammar of Animacy” in Braiding Sweetgrass: Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, 48-59. Minneapolis, MN:Milkweed Editions, 2013.

ESSAYS/ARTICLES/REPORTS, ETC.

  • Bird-David, Nurit. “’Animism’ Revisited: Personhood, Environment, and Relational Epistemology. “Current Anthropology, Volume 40 (1999): S67-S89.
  • Dods, Roberta R. “Knowing ways/ways of knowing: reconciling science and tradition.” World Archaeology, Volume 36 (4) (2004): 547-557.
  • Saler, Benson. “Supernatural as a Western Category.” Ethos, Volume 5, No.1 (1977): 31-53.
  • Shorter, David D. “Spirituality.” Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie. The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History (2016): 434-448.