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National Native American Heritage Month, November 2022

by Leslie Vega on 2022-11-14T10:07:00-05:00 | 0 Comments

This November we celebrate Native American Heritage Month, where the library showcases books authored by and about Indigenous peoples. Join us in recognizing the diverse and excellent contributions of current Native scholars and writers and explore resources that delve into their history.

Handbook of Indigenous Peoples' Rights by Corinne Lennox (Editor); Damien Short (Editor)

Call Number: GN380 .H36 2016, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)

ISBN: 9781857436419

Publication Date: 2016-02-17

This handbook is a comprehensive interdisciplinary overview of indigenous peoples' rights. Chapters by experts in the field examine legal, philosophical, sociological and political issues, addressing a wide range of themes at the centre of debates on the rights of indigenous peoples. The book addresses not only the major questions, such as 'Who are indigenous peoples? What is distinctive about their rights? How are their rights constructed and protected? What is the relationship between national indigenous rights regimes and international norms?' but also themes such as culture, identity, genocide, globalization and development, and the environment. The book is divided into eight sections, which will each discuss and analyze a number of themes at the heart of the debates on the rights of indigenous peoples.

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Call Number: PS3555.R42 R68 2012, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)

ISBN: 9780062065247

Publication Date: 2012-10-02

The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family. Riveting and suspenseful, arguably the most accessible novel to date from the creator of Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, and The Bingo Palace, Erdrich's The Round House is a page-turning masterpiece of literary fiction--at once a powerful coming-of-age story, a mystery, and a tender, moving novel of family, history, and culture.

Discovering Florida: first-contact narratives from Spanish expeditions along the lower Gulf Coast by John E. Worth (Edited and Translated by)

Call Number: F314 .D59 2014, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)

ISBN: 9780813049885

Publication Date: 2014-09-23

Florida's lower gulf coast was a key region in the early European exploration of North America, with an extraordinary number of first-time interactions between Spaniards and Florida's indigenous cultures. Discovering Florida compiles all the major writings of Spanish explorers in the area between 1513 and 1566. Including transcriptions of the original Spanish documents as well as English translations, this volume presents--in their own words--the experiences and reactions of Spaniards who came to Florida with Juan Ponce de León, Pánfilo de Narváez, Hernando de Soto, and Pedro Menéndez de Avilés. These accounts, which have never before appeared together in print, provide an astonishing glimpse into a world of indigenous cultures that did not survive colonization. With introductions to the primary sources, extensive notes, and a historical overview of Spanish exploration in the region, this book offers an unprecedented firsthand view of La Florida in the earliest stages of European conquest.

Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

Call Number: PS3616.I288 A6 2017, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)

ISBN: 9781941040638

Publication Date: 2017-05-09

Nature Poem follows Teebs--a young, queer, American Indian (or NDN) poet--who can't bring himself to write a nature poem. For the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster, the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights to the night sky. He'd slap a tree across the face. He'd rather write a mountain of hashtag punchlines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor bathroom; he'd rather write odes to Aretha Franklin and Hole. While he's adamant--bratty, even--about his distaste for the word "natural," over the course of the book we see him confronting the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white ideas that collude NDN people with nature. The closer his people were identified with the "natural world," he figures, the easier it was to mow them down like the underbrush. But Teebs gradually learns how to interpret constellations through his own lens, along with human nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter. Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, he learns how to have faith in his own voice.

Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies by Brendan Hokowhitu; Aileen Moreton-Robinson; Linda Tuhiwai-Smith; Chris Andersen; Steve Larkin

Call Number: GN316 .R68 2021, MAIN (2ND FLOOR)

ISBN: 9780367642891

Publication Date: 2022-08-01

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed.

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