Celebrate Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month. You can celebrate by checking out these recently published titles on Native American history and culture available at the library:

An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley.
"Provides an account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule." - From publisher.

Archaeological Perspectives of Warfare on the Great Plains ed. by Andrew J. Clark and Douglas B. Bamforth.
"Bringing together research from across the region, this volume provides unprecedented evidence of the effects of war on tribal societies." - From publisher.

Atlas of Indian Nations by Anton Treuer.
"The most comprehensive atlas of Native American history and culture available." - From publisher.

Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation by John Sedgwick.
"A sweeping, powerful, and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee." - From publisher.

The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew's Regiment of Mounted Rifles by W. Craig Gaines.
"...provides an absorbing account of the Cherokees' involvement in the early years of the Civil War..." - From publisher.

Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhyms: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America by Kyle T. Mays.
"Indigenous people have blended expressive cultures with hip hop culture, creating new sounds, aesthetics, movements and ways of being indigenous." - From publisher.

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway.
"...reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans." - From publisher.

Lakota Performers in Europe: Their Culture and the Artifacts They Left Behind by Steve Friesen.
"From April to November 1935 in Belgium, fifteen Lakotas enacted their culture on a world stage." - From Publisher.

Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River by Adam Bigmouth
"...presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth...in the summers of 1938 and 1940.

Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian (23rd edition) by Barry T. Klein
Directory information for Native American governments, organizations, etc. in the United States and Canada.