March is Women’s History Month. As in Black American History Month and Native American Heritage Month, libraries across the United States will feature specialized reading lists, lectures, exhibits, workshops, and cultural events about women this month. Reading a book about women or by a woman, in particular, may not be a part of one’s reading… Read More »
Prior to Thanksgiving, I searched for Native American music via my library’s electronic resources such as Hoopla and Freegal. The Songs and Dances of the Sioux, Apache, Kiowa, Hopi, Navajo, Cree, Seminole, and Others is the most traditional album I had found. If your local library has an account with Hoopla, you can use your… Read More »
The Lesser Blessed is a movie about a Native American teenage boy, Larry Sole, in a small Canadian town, who is lonely, depressed, and bullied. He is raised by a single mother and her boyfriend is his hero. Larry Sole laments the loss of his traditional heritage; yet, he has a crush on a non-native… Read More »
Small Wolf, by Nathaniel Benchley, is both children’s literature and historical fiction. The story is about a first contact between Native Americans and Europeans on the island of Manhattan. The story does not go far enough in detail to describe the harm to Native Americans caused by immigrants. An e-audiobook version of this story on… Read More »