Monday, October 9, is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in America and is a time to honor Native American cultures, histories, and people. Celebrate Indigenous people’s vibrant and vast traditions, voices, and contributions across North America by diving into the Jefferson Libraries’ eBooks, videos, and physical books. The sample of resources below, written by and about Native Americans, discuss Native American history, architecture and art, film, poetry, gender, and much more. Visit the library’s catalog site to browse our complete collection of resources to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
If you are on the East Falls campus, visit Gutman Library’s book display highlighting these Indigenous resources. The exhibit highlights fashion, film, feminism, climate change/sustainability, identity, and history. The display is on the Main Floor of the library.
Print Books
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Beauty, Honor, and Tradition: The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts by Joseph D. Horse Capture and George P. Horse Capture
Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film by Michelle H. Raheja
Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions Within a Changing Environment by Nicole Stuckenberger
The Way We Genuinely Live = Yuungnaqpiallerput: Masterworks of Yup’ik Science and Survival by Ann Fienup-Riordan; Translations by Alice Rearden
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle
White Horse by Erika T. Wurth
Videos
eBooks
The Arts of Kingship: Hawaiian Art and National Culture of the Kalakaua Era by Stacy L. Kamehiro
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory by Qwo-Li Driskill
The Feathered Heart by Mark Turcotte
I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories
In Good Relation: History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms by Sarah Nickel and Amanda Fehr
Indian Pilgrims Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha by Michelle Jacob
Native American Voices: A Reader by Susan Lobo, Steve Talbot, & Traci Morris Carlston
Two Spirit Acts: Queer Indigenous Performances by Jean Elizabeth O’Hara, Muriel Miguel, Kent Monkman, and Waawaate Fobister
Xiipúktan (First of all): Three Views of the Origins of the Quechan People by George Bryant and Amy Miller