Flaxman's Pop Up Libraries

This Virtual Pop-Up Library is a collaboration between the Native American and Indigenous Student Association (NAISA) and John M. Flaxman Library. Graphic courtesy of Camille Billie.

WHAT IS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY?

"In 1977 participants at the United Nations International Conference on Discrimination against Indigenous Populations in the Americas proposed that Indigenous Peoples’ Day replace Columbus Day. Indigenous Peoples’ Day recognizes that Native people are the first inhabitants of the Americas, including the lands that later became the United States of America. And it urges Americans to rethink history." (Sourced from Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Rethinking How We Celebrate American History, Dennis W. Zotigh and Renee Gokey, 2019, National Museum of the American Indian.)

WEBSITES / ARTICLES

• American Indian Digital History Project
• “Decolonial” Reading List, Analú López (Indigenous curator at The Newberry Library), 2020
• The Red Nation
• Rethinking "Thanksgiving" Toolkit, Indigenous Solidarity Network
• Thanksgiving Is Dedicated to Erasing the Ruthlessness of English Settlers, Joseph M. Pierce, TRUTHOUT, 2019

ARTISTS

• Nicholes Brown - Writings - Projects
• Wendy Redstar - Website 
  Decolonizing Photography: A Conversation With Wendy Red Star, Abaki Beck, 2016
  Interview with Wendy Red Star, Ashley Stull Meyers, 2017
  Three Native American Artists Challenge a White Ethnographer’s Legacy, Jennifer Rabin, 2016

AUDIO

• All My Relations [Podcast]
• Indian Songs of Today [Digital Collection]
• Native American History & Culture [Digital Collection]
• Omaha Music Collection [Digital Collection]

JOAN FLASCH ARTISTS' BOOKS COLLECTION

• Empower Yoself Before You Wreck Yoself: Native American Feminist Musings, 2014 

VIDEO

• The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open [Feature Film], 2019, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn
  Please note: This item was selected by the curators of this list, but it is not currently available through the library.
• Reservation Dogs [Series], 2021-2023, Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi
  Please note: This item was selected by the curators of this list, but it is not currently available through the library.
• Tribesourcing Southwest Film Project
• Art Institute of Chicago Special Land Acknowledgement Ceremony [below], 2019 (Starting at minute 16 to see the ceremony)

BOOKS

CONNECT

ORGANIZATIONS / INSTITUTIONS

• LOCAL
  • American Indian Center [Chicago]
  • American Indian Association of Illinois
  • Chi Nations Youth Council [Chicago]
  • Chicago American Indian Museum Without Walls
  • Mitchell Museum of the American Indian [Evanston]
• BEYOND
  • IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center

NATIVE-OWNED BUSINESSES

• Eighth Generation [Clothing & Homegoods]
• Niio Perkins [Jewelry]
• Sequoia [Beauty]
• Snipe Clan Botanicals [Beauty]
• Urban Native Era [Clothing]