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Indigenous People's month

Today's post was prepared by Kimberly Braet, Library Graduate Assistant

Happy Indigenous Heritage Month from the Lehman Library. November has been recognized as Native American Heritage Month since President George H. W. Bush signed into effect the joint resolution to recognize and celebrate Indigenous people in the year 1990 (Celebrating National Native American Heritage Month). This month celebrates the rich tapestry of voices and numerous tribal nations that are the first inhabitants of the land we now call the United States. 
Shippensburg University values the Indigenous voices in our community and acknowledges that our institution resides on Indigenous land. Specifically, our University’s Land Acknowledgment Statement recognizes and expresses appreciation for the territory of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation on which our school resides. To access a more complete list of the First Nations who belong to the surrounding region of Pennsylvania, please visit Shippensburg University’s Land Acknowledgement Statement. 
    In celebration of this year’s Indigenous People’s Month, the Lehman Library has compiled a reading list of Indigenous authors and literature. Please consider stopping by the Lehman Library in our main floor’s gallery space to browse these titles and authors and to learn more about Indigenous People’s Month. 

Our reading list:
There there by Tommy OrangeCall Number: PS3615.R32 T48 2018

I am Woman : a Native Perspective on Sociology and Feminism by Lee Maracle Call Number: E78.B9 M36 1996

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining our Future by Patty KrawecCall Number: E98.K48

Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen Call Number: E98.S48 Q84 2011

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays Call Number: E98.R28 M39 2021

Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss Call Number: GV697.T5 M27 2022

In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by Walter R. Echo-Hawk; foreword by S. James Anaya Call Number: KF8205 .E24 2013

Research is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods by Shawn Wilson Call Number: GN380 .W554 2008

Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts by Margaret Kovach Call Number: E76.7 .K68 2021

The Seven Generations and the Seven Grandfather Teachings by James Vukelich Kaagegaabaw, edited by Maeve Fairbanks
Call Number: E98.A27 V85 2023

References: “Celebrating National Native American Heritage Month.” United States Senate, 25 Oct. 2023