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​Curated Resources for Ancient History, Mental Health, and BIPOC-Centered Healing

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All sources are free and publicly accessible, focusing on ancestral knowledge, health equity, and cultural resilience.

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🏛 Ancient & Indigenous American History

1. Unexpected Faces in Ancient America (1500 B.C.–A.D. 1500) – Alexander von Wuthenau
   📖 Read/download

2. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States – Roxanne Dunbar‑Ortiz
   📖 Free PDF |
   📖 Internet Archive

3. They Came Before Columbus – Ivan Van Sertima
   📖 Free PDF (Controversial)

4. The Other Slavery – Andrés Reséndez
   📖 Summary access via libraries

5. Indian Givers – Jack Weatherford
   📖 Overview access recommended

6. Precolonial Black Africa – Cheikh Anta Diop
   📖 Internet Archive

7. From Babylon to Timbuktu – Rudolf Windsor
   📖 Free PDF​

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🧠 Health & Mental Health for BIPOC

1. Mental Health America Toolkit: Mental Health Equity for BIPOC (2021)
   📖 Download PDF

2. BIPOC Mental Health Resource Guide – The NAN Project / CUNY
   📖 Download PDF

3. Culturally Competent Mental Health Care for BIPOC
   📖 University-hosted PDF (search recommended)

4. Healing the Hidden Wounds of Racial Trauma – Kenneth V. Hardy
   📖 PDF via NAMI Minnesota or similar sources

5. Medical Apartheid – Harriet A. Washington
   📖 Internet Archive

6. Too Heavy a Yoke – Chanequa Walker-Barnes
   📖 Academic/library access

7. African American Folk Healing – Stephanie Y. Mitchem
   📖 Scribd PDF

8. Bipolar Faith – Monica A. Coleman
   📖 Scribd or library e-loans

9. Religiosity and Mental Health Service Utilization among African Americans – Chatters et al.
   📖 NIH Article

10. Liberate Meditation App
    📲 For BIPOC, on iOS/Android

11. Medical Equity Toolkit – University of Washington
    📖 University site PDF (search recommended)

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📚 BIPOC-Centered Historical Literature

1. Dark Princess – W.E.B. Du Bois
   📖 Read Online

2. Still I Rise: A Cartoon History of African Americans – Roland & Taneshia Nash Laird
   📖 Search “Still I Rise Laird PDF” on Archive or libraries

3. How We Get Free – Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
   📖 Free sample via Haymarket Books

4. Freedom’s Journal (1827–1829)
   📖 Wisconsin Historical Archive

5. BlackPast.org
   📖 Explore

6. HooDoo Heritage – Megan E. Lane
   📖 Read/Download

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🌍 Additional Ethnic & Cultural Histories

Asian American

• Madeline Hsu, Ronald Takaki, Erika Lee
  📖 Multiple texts via Internet Archive

Polynesian & Pacific Islander

• Abraham Fornander, William Ellis
  📖 See Internet Archive & direct links

Puerto Rican American

• Rudolph Van Middeldyk, Kal & Olga Wagenheim, Nelson A. Denis
  📖 Internet Archive

South Asian American

• Joan M. Jensen
  📖 Internet Archive

Middle Eastern American

• Gregory Orfalea, Zachary Lockman, Hugh Wilford
  📖 Internet Archive

Native American & Indigenous

• John Adair, Daniel Richter
  📖 Read here

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