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 »
The Los Angeles Public Library will be closed for Monday, October 9, 2017 in observance of Indigenous Peoples Day. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles City Council voted on August 30, 2017 to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day and Italian Americans weren’t happy about losing a day of remembrance for… Read More »
Commercials are designed in such a way to make us want things we don’t really need. We unwittingly become brainwashed into believing that the commercials’ products will make us cool, popular, happy, successful, glamorous, famous, or attractive to others. Commercials make us believe their products will solve our problems. When you read Thomas E. Woods’… Read More »
Based upon the title, A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate by Reverend Santiago Tafolla, you might be under the impression that this memoir can contribute to your academic research paper on the American Civil War and debate over Black American slavery before and during the American Civil War of the 1860s. Luckily,… Read More »
I was searching for a library book that specialized in Native American cooking prior to the arrival of the English in New England since the Thanksgiving holiday is approaching. The only book I can find at my local library is Native New England Cooking by Dale Carson. Many of the recipes in this book represent… Read More »