May Is American Indian Month In Minnesota

Press release from the Hennepin County Library:

May 12, 2020

Join us as we celebrate American Indian Month in Minnesota. The theme for 2020 is We Are Still Here: Honoring Life. Your library has resources online about Indigenous People of the Americas, including the Dakota, whose land all of our 41 libraries occupy.

There is also a free virtual event that you can access and participate in from home.

Event

Join us on the American Indian Month in MN 2020 Facebook page on May 25 for special videos that celebrate the month.

Books (many available as eBooks)

• Native American Fiction - stories featuring Native Americans.
• Native American Memoir - Staff- recommended memoirs reflecting the Native American experience.
• Native American Nonfiction - Books about being Native American in the United States.
• New Poets of Native Nations - Local poet and anthology editor Heid E. Erdrich has collected a number of poems in the book "New Poets of Native Nations." Find other works of poetry and prose by the book's contributors in this list.

Music

• Tufawon is a local artist on the library's free music streaming service, MNspin. Listen to his albums.
• KITTO was our Vinyl Revival artist in residence in January-February. He selected a collection of albums and was featured in an interview with KFAI on February 3 for Beats, Rhymes and Democracy.

Online resources

• American Indian Experience - Articles on the Native tribes of North America as well as primary sources, including treaties, speeches, traditional tales, maps, and images.
• Ojibwe Language Resources from Bemidji State University.
• Transparent Language Online includes resources for Ojibwe language learning.

This press release was produced by the Hennepin County Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.