HELP US APPRECIATE NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH

AT ARCHBISHOP IRELAND MEMORIAL LIBRARY

Check out some good dvds, and books by native authors:

– Sherman Alexie– N. Scott Momaday– Louise Erdrich– James Wilson– Jim Northrup– Peter Razer– Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve– Linda Hogan– Leslie Marmon Silko– Black Elk– Zitkala-Sa– Lame Deer

Drop in at Archbishop Ireland Library on South Campus and get a free Native American History Month Bookmark – seen on the left (published by the American Library Assn.) We will hand out ones depicting every Ethnic Heritage Month, and Women’s History Month, as the year progresses… So start building your collection…

Materials listed here are suggestions by Curt Le May, Director of Ireland Library, and do not necessarily represent those of the University of St. Thomas

Dances: Hoop Dance; Jingle Dance

Men: Fancy DancerWomen: Shawl Dance

Drums….

Minnesota Department of

Minnesota Department of Human Rights web site

http://mn.gov/mdhr/public_affairs/events_nativeamerican_month.html

Overview of Indian Tribes in MinnesotaIn Minnesota, there are seven Anishinaabe (Chippewa, Ojibwe) reservations and four Dakota (Sioux) communities. A reservation or community is a segment of land that belongs to one or more groups of American Indians. It is land that was retained by American Indian tribes after ceding large portions of the original homelands to the United States through treaty agreements. It is not land that was given to American Indians by the federal government. There are hundreds of state and federally recognized American Indian reservations located in 35 states. These reservations have boundary lines much like a county or state has boundary lines. The American Indian reservations were created through treaties, and after 1871, some were created by Executive Order of the President of the United States or by other agreements. Anishinaabe ReservationsThe seven Anishinaabe reservations include: Grand Portage located in the northeast corner of the state; Bois Forte located in extreme northern Minnesota; Red Lake located in extreme northern Minnesota west of Bois Forte; White Earth located in northwestern Minnesota; Leech Lake located in the north central portion of the state; Fond du Lac located in northeast Minnesota west of the city of Duluth; and Mille Lacs located in the central part of the state, south and east of Brainerd…Dakota CommunitiesThe four Dakota Communities include: Shakopee Mdewakanton located south of the Twin Cities near Prior Lake; Prairie Island located near Red Wing; Lower Sioux located near Redwood Falls; and Upper Sioux whose lands are near the city of Granite Falls.

[Abbreviated from MDHR website-see link at top left.]

November is Native American Heritage Month

Indian Tribes in MinnesotaIn Minnesota, there are seven Anishinaabe (Chippewa, Ojibwe) reservations and four Dakota (Sioux) communities.

A reservation or community is a segment of land that belongs to one or more groups of American Indians. Find an overview of Indian Tribes in Minnesota on the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council web site.

New Book at Ireland LibraryLily of the Mohawks on St. Kateri Tekakawitha

by Twin Cities author Emily Cavins

Book held in Ireland Library Stacks; Call Number:

E90.T2 C38 2013

Book held inO'Shaughnessy-Frey Stacks

Call number:PR9199.3.K4422 Z477 2005

Media-DVDs

DVD held at St. Thomas-O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Media-DVDs

Call number:PN1997 .M57 2003 c.2

Portuguese Colonialism – interacting with native peoples.

Held at St. Thomas-O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Media-DVDs

Call number:PS8526.O62 B53 2007

French Colonialism – interacting with native peoples.

Here you can find digitized historic images from the Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library's Rare Book Collection

concerning missionary work with Minnesota’s Native Americans, which includes catechetical materials used for religious instruction, New Testament selections, and printed music and

hymns in Native languages common to Minnesota; published from 1850 to 1925.

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http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/iml

Click on the blue hyperlink below to see this collection featured in the Minnesota Digital Library’s Minnesota Reflections Project