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#notyourprincess by ISBN: 9781554519606Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by ISBN: 9780316013697Publication Date: 2009-04-01Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.
American Indian Biographies by Call Number: REF. E89.A46 2005ISBN: 9781587652332Publication Date: 2005-03-01Cecelia Capture Welles, an Indian law student and mother of two, is jailed on her thirtieth birthday for drunk driving. Held on an old welfare fraud charge, she reflects back on her life on the reservation in Idaho, her days as an unwed mother in San Francisco, her marriage to a white liberal, and her decision to return to college. This mixed inheritance of ambition and despair brings her to the brink of suicide.
Braiding Sweetgrass by ISBN: 9781571313560Publication Date: 2015-08-11"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise.""-- Provided by publisher.
Code Talker by Call Number: PZ7.B82816 Co 2005ISBN: 9780756967079Publication Date: 2006-01-01After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
Custer Died for Your Sins by ISBN: 9780806121291Publication Date: 1988-05-15...it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria’s Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest.
Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry by Call Number: PS591.I55H37 1988ISBN: 9780613181167Publication Date: 1988-04-01Representing the work of thirty-one poets since the turn of the century, this is the definitive anthology of Native American poetry.
The Night Watchman by ISBN: 9780062671196Publication Date: 2021-03-23It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie - 'Patrice' - Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother, let alone her alcoholic father who sometimes returns home to bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera.
There There by ISBN: 9780525436140Publication Date: 2019-05-07A wondrous and shattering novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among 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. 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.
The Way to Rainy Mountain by Call Number: E99.K5M64ISBN: 9780826304360Publication Date: 1976-09-01"The stories in The Way to Rainy Mountain are told in three voices. The first voice is the voice of my father, the ancestral voice, and the voice of the Kiowa oral tradition. The second is the voice of historical commentary. And the third is that of personal reminiscence, my own voice. There is a turning and returning of myth, history, and memoir throughout, a narrative wheel that is as sacred as language itself."--from the new Preface
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What you should know about Woody Crumbo...
Woody Wilson Crumbo (1912 - 1989) was the son of an Indian mother and a French father. He had a remarkable life. He was orphaned at age seven, yet earned a high school scholarship to the Wichita American Indian Institute. He continued his schooling at Wichita University where he studied painting and drawing. While studying art, he supported himself as a Native American dancer touring reservations across the United States.
In 1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior commissioned him to paint murals on the walls of a building in Washington D.C. He was also commissioned to paint two murals in the battleship the U.S.S. Oklahoma which were destroyed when the battleship was attacked at Pearl Harbor. His artwork can be found in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
In the 1950's he took up prospecting and found deposits of ore worth millions. He became a major stockholder in Taos Uranium and Exploration Corp. He then went on to become the Assistant Director of the El Paso, TX Museum of Art and briefly its Director.
He then left to pursue art and humanitarian efforts aiding the Isleta Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and donating money to help the Potawatomi build a cultural heritage center. In 1978 he was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. He is remembered as a creator and promoter of Native American art.
Sources:
“Collections Search.” National Museum of the American Indian |, https://americanindian.si.edu/collections-search/search?edan_q=woody+crumbo.
“Woodrow Crumbo.” Smithsonian American Art Museum, https://americanart.si.edu/artist/woodrow-crumbo-1059.
“Woody Crumbo.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 7 Sept. 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Crumbo.