Native American Heritage 2007

	Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with these recommended titles by, for and about Native Americans. All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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	American Indian Healing Arts: Herbs, Rituals, and Remedies for Every Season of Life Barrie Kavasch (Bantam, c1999) Shelf Number: 615.882/K21a Presents an exploration of Native American rituals that fostered a spiritual bond between man and nature, and offers recipes for herbal remedies, and massage oils.
	Blonde Indian: an Alaska Native Memoir Ernestine Hayes (Univ. of Arizona Press,c2006) Shelf Number: 970.00497/H4175b/BIOGRAPHY Born in Juneau, Alaska, Ernestine Hayes has written a memoir about the ups and downs of being a member of the Wolf House of the Kaagwaantaan clan of the Lingit. She relates the details of her youth and early adulthood, intermixing these often sad memories with stories of tribal history that have been passed on for generations. She was in and out of detention homes as a teenager and failed relationships as an adult. She finally returns to Juneau and her roots. She also reveals her inner struggle as an individual who is neither fully Native American nor Euro-American.
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	Coyote Medicine Lewis Mehl-Madrona (Scribner, c1997) Shelf Number: 615.882/M498c A Stanford trained doctor tells how he gave up the promise of a lucrative practice to learn more about the Native American healing arts his ancestors used and describes his efforts to incorporate the benefits of modern and ancient medicine.
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	Identity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women's Dresses Her Many Horses, Emil, ed. (Smithsonian Institution, c2007) Shelf Number: 746.92/ID197i A beautifully illustrated catalog of Native American dresses in the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. The artistry and significance of the garments in the world-renowned collection is explained by the editor and curator, Her Many Horses, and by Colleen Cutschall and Janet Catherine Berlo.
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	The Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquility Barrie Kavasch (Bantam, c2002) Shelf Number: 635.K219m Presents a guide on how to create personal sacred spaces in the form of gardens, meditation landscapes, and outdoor altars.
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	Native American Weapons Colin Taylor (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, c2001) Shelf Number: 623.441/239n An introduction to North American Indian arms and armor from prehistoric times to the late 19th century.
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	Raven Eye: Poems Margo Tamez (Univ. of Arizona Press, c2007) Shelf Number: 811/T157r Tamez, with an Indian and Spanish heritage, is bold and forthright in her writing. Her topics range from brutality against women to tender lust, from industrial pollution to hopes for children, but her subject is consistent; the effect of marginalization on people, places, and the planet.
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