Native American Heritage Month titles in the SEC Library
Before planning your visit to the SEC Library, we recommend utilizing the provided links below to verify the availability of these titles.
November is Native American Heritage Month
- An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States byCall Number: E98.R28 M39 2021
- As long as grass grows : the indigenous fight for environmental justice, from colonization to Standing Rock byCall Number: E98.S67 G55 2019
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants byCall Number: E98.P5 K56 2013An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science.
- Conquistadors and Aztecs : a history of the fall of Tenochtitlan byCall Number: F1230 .R56 2023 & ebook
- Decolonizing design : a cultural justice guidebook byCall Number: NK1520 .T86 2023
- The heartbeat of Wounded Knee : native America from 1890 to the present byCall Number: E77 .T797 2019
- Indigenous continent : the epic contest for North America byCall Number: E77 .H197 2022
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States byCall Number: E76.8 .D86 2014
- The night watchman : a novel byCall Number: PS3555.R42 N54 2020Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a “termination” that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans “for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run”?
- The rediscovery of America : native peoples and the unmaking of U.S. history byCall Number: E77 .B64 2023
- There There : a novel byCall Number: PS3615.R32 T48 2018Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. They converge and collide on one fateful day at the Big Oakland Powwow and together this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism.
- This land is their land : the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving byCall Number: E99.W2 S545 2020
- Unworthy republic : the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory byCall Number: E98.R4 S38 2021
- We are the middle of forever : Indigenous voices from Turtle Island on the changing Earth byCall Number: E98.P5 W425 2022The book draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities, generations, and geographic regions, who share their knowledge and experience, their questions, their observations, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life.
- We refuse to forget : a true story of Black Creeks, American identity, and power byCall Number: E99.C9 G36 2022