Resources

Below you'll find:

-Resources specific to our camp this year

-General resources in support of our gathering

Resources specific to our camp this year:

Restorative Practices at Village Fire

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Restorative Practices Procedure at Village Fire

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Village Fire Participation Agreement

When you arrive at camp you will be asked to sign this agreement.

General resources in support of our gathering:

Community Singing

• The Bird Sings
• Heartland Harmony
• Songs for the Great Turning
• SingWorldWide
• Music that Makes Community
• The Natural Voice Network

General Social Justice Activism

• Book: Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree brown
• Podcast series: For the Wild: especially Wildfire Project
• No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must be More Generous
• Podcast series: Heretic: Social Justice, Minus Dogma

Anti-Racism for adults

​More specific to Village Fire:

• Who is Community Singing For?
• Village Fire Groundwork Toward Anti-Racism, 2013-2018
• Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization

General​

• White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okum
  
• Podcast series: Scene on Radio: Seeing White
• Books: What Does it Mean to be White? (and) White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• I Need to Talk to Spiritual White Women About White Supremacy, by Layla F. Saad
• Film: 13th
• Film: I Am Not Your Negro

Social Justice for parents, teachers, children

• the Birch Bark House book series by Louise Erdrich, an intro to colonialism and its impacts (fiction)
• the Fighting for Justice book series published by Heyday Books (there are two so far), which profile heroes of social justice (nonfiction)
• Book: Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson for older kids, touches on issues of race and immigration, among others (fiction)
• Book: Sex Is A Funny Word, for younger kids to think about bodies and nonbinariness (nonfiction)

Indigenous Peoples, Iowa and Wisconsin

• Seeding Sovereignty
• Indigenous Iowa
• Wisconsin First Nations
• Book: Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Book: The Indians of Iowa, by Lance Foster
• Book: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Restorative Community Practices

• If you're wanting more hands-on support and resources for some of this work, check out this free 1-hr webinar that a few Village Fire folks will be offering at the end of August called "Getting the Support You Need to Change the World."
• Nonviolent Communication
• The Indigenous Origins of Circles and How Non-Natives Learned About Them

Patriarchy

• Podcast series: Scene on Radio: Men
• Book: Boys will be Men: Raising our Sons for Courage, Caring, and Community, by Paul Kivel
• Book: The Will To Change, by bell hooks
• Online Resource: How To Be A Better Man

Queer, Trans, and Nonbinary

• What Does it Mean to Identify as Nonbinary?
• About Transgender People
• Book: Queer Ecologies, by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands

Mutual Emotional First Aid

• The Icarus Project