Books for Habitat Gardeners

• Bringing Nature Home: How You can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Doug Tallamy

• Planting in a Post-Wild World

• Grow Now: Our Gardens as Climate Activism by Emily Murphy

• Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy

• The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

• The Landscaping Revolution: Garden with Mother Nature, Not Against Her

• Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening and Conservation

• Growing and Propagating Wildflowers

• The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest

• The Nature of Oaks by Doug Tallamy

• The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants by Jennifer Jewell

Indigenous Authors + Resources

Local Active Tribes from Lenape Origin

Ramapough Nation Indians is the official website for the Ramapough Nation Indians

The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation

The best place to start is the Nanticoke and Lenape Confederation‘s Learning Center and Museum website, which is rich with history and includes info about the native plants used by the Lenape people.

The Delaware Tribe’s Talking Dictionary, which includes Lenape names for birds, bird songs, plants, and many other categories.

Indigenous Activists + Voices

Jordan Poorman Cocker (Dàumtó:yà [gáuimà ) and her TedX Oklahoma City talk Indigenous Futurisms: Cultures of Radical Love

Indigenous Women Hike

Autumn Harry of Numu Wanderer

Crystal EchoHawk and Illuminatives, a nonprofit designed to increase the visibility of Natives in American society

Honor the Earth

Tara Houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ, founder of Giniw Collective and Not Your Mascots

Indigenous Kinship Collective

Nikki La’es

Books + Film

All the Real Indians Died Off: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker 

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Your Name Isn’t English, a short film written and directed by Tazbah Rose Chavez

An America Sunrise and When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, edited by United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

Nonprofits and Educational Organizations

Native Land an interactive map of historic Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties

Seeding Sovereignty – Information on Land Acknowledgements

National Museum of of the American Indian (Smithsonian)

Native American Voices: The People—Here and Now, a new long-term exhibition at the Penn Museum

Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania

Native American Rights Fund

Native Organizers Alliance

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Organizations to know

• Native Plant Society of New Jersey

• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

• NJ Conservation Foundation

• Pineleands Preservation Alliance

• National Wildlife Federation

• National Audubon Society