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Large text reads, “November is Native American and Indigenous People’s Heritage Month.” An abstract swirling pattern in red, orange, and yellow colors is on the left of the screen.
Large text reads, “Check out books by Native American and Indigenous authors on display around the library!” An abstract swirling pattern in red, orange, and yellow colors is on the left of the screen.
Title reads, “Origins of Native American and Indigenous People’s Heritage Month.” Smaller text reads, “November was first officially designated as “National American Indian Heritage Month” in 1990, after a joint resolution was signed into law by George H.W. Bush. However, this only came after decades of effort by Indigenous Americans who advocated for governmental recognition. Dr. Arthur C. Parker was a member of the Seneca Nation and the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. In the 1910s, he campaigned for the Boy Scouts of America to commemorate “First Americans Day” and they did so for three years. Source: nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/About” The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Title reads, “Origins of Native American and Indigenous People’s Heritage Month.” Smaller text reads, “In 1915, Red Fox James of the Blackfoot Tribe rode around the country on horseback gathering endorsements from state governments in support of a national day honoring Native Americans. In December, he presented 24 endorsements at the White House. That same year, the Congress of the American Indian Association officially called for the United States government to observe a day honoring Native Americans. Their proclamation was officially issued by Rev. Sherman Coolidge, president of the association and member of the Arapaho Tribe. The federal government did not respond to these efforts. However, starting in 1916, some state governments began to recognize ‘American Indian Day.’ Source: nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/About” The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Title reads, “Online resource spotlight: Native American Art Magazine.” Smaller text reads, “You can access the magazine Native American Art through Sora, our eBook and audiobook platform. This magazine is part of the Hudson Valley Library Association collection, which you have access to through your BC email address. For instructions on adding the HVLA collection, visit libguides.berkeleycarroll.org/us-reading/ebooks . Once you’ve added it, you can search for Native American Art and digitally borrow the magazine!” The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Text reads, “Never whistle at night: an Indigenous dark fiction anthology edited by Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: 'Are you ready to be un-settled?' In twenty-five wholly original and shiver-inducing tales, authors introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Text reads, “Bad Cree by Jessica Johns. A young Cree woman is tormented by vivid dreams from before her sister's untimely death and wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands before returning to her rural hometown in Alberta seeking answers. (Source: library catalog.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “Amazona by Canizales. Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. She comes to mourn her child--and to capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Text reads, “Ready When You Are by Gary Lonesborough. A remarkable YA love story between two Aboriginal boys -- one who doesn’t want to accept he’s gay, and the boy who comes to live in his house who makes him realize who he is. (Source: Junior Library Guild.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker. Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to effective organizing and allyship. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Text reads, “Rez Ball by Byron Graves. These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. Because if he can live up to Jaxon's dreams, their story isn't over yet. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “Surviving the City by Tasha Spillett and Natasha Donovan. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. navigating the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape. When Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez's community find her before it's too late? Will Miikwan be able to cope if they don't? (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger. Elatsoe lives in an alternate version of America that has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry. The picture-perfect facade of Willowbee masks gruesome secrets, and she will rely on her wits, skills, and friends to tear off the mask and protect her family. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline. After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this young adult novel exploring grief and belonging (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “Red Paint by Sasha taqšblu LaPointe. Sasha taqšblu LaPointe, a Coast Salish indigenous woman, blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Text reads, “The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline. Humanity has nearly destroyed its world through global warming, but now an even greater evil lurks. The indigenous people of North America are being hunted and harvested for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream. In this dark world, Frenchie and his companions struggle to survive as they make their way up north to the old lands. (Source: library catalog.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angelina Boulley. Firekeeper's Daughter is a groundbreaking thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. When Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug, she agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. (Source: library catalog.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty. Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. (Source: back cover.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Text reads, “Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene. This illustrated book profiles 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice. After a winter storm cuts off all contact and supplies from a small community, people begin to panic when the death toll starts rising. A group of friends turn to the Anishinaabe traditions in hopes of helping their community. (Source: library catalog.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Text reads, “Apple, Skin to the Core by Eric Gansworth. Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life and family through poems about their Onondaga heritage, from the horrible legacy of government boarding schools, to watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to his fight to be an artist who balances multiple worlds. (Source: library catalog.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a family, and remain unsolved for nearly fifty years. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Text reads, “The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. The Mighty Red tells the story of a collection of people who revolve around their fraught wedding in Argus, North Dakota. This book is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Text reads, “What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal by Eldon Yellowhorn and Kathy Lowinger. Esteemed academic Eldon Yellowhorn and award-winning author Kathy Lowinger team up to tell the stories of what Indigenous people did when invaders arrived on their homelands. What the Eagle Sees shares accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered in Indigenous history from a vastly under-represented perspective—an Indigenous viewpoint. (Source: publisher.)” An image of the cover is next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors. A banner overlaying the cover reads “Also on Sora!”
Title reads, “Database spotlight: American Indian Experience” Smaller text reads, “This ABC-CLIO database gives you access to primary documents and reference articles on the histories and contemporary cultures of Native Americans. It includes CLIOview, a state-based population census tool. Scan the QR code to access this database through the US Library’s libguide!” There is a QR code next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.
Title reads, “Database spotlight: American Indian History Online” Smaller text reads, “This Infobase database offers access to more than 600 Native American groups and over 15,000 years of Indigenouse American culture and history. Scan the QR code to access this database through the US Library’s libguide!” There is a QR code next to the text. The background includes shapes like lines, dots, and swirls in fall colors.