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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	Secrets of Native American Herbal Remedies: A Comprehensive Guide to the Native American Tradition of Using Herbs and the Mind/Body/Spirit Connection for Improving Health and Well Being Anthony Cichoke (Avery, c2001) Shelf Number: 615.882/C568s Describes the Native American concept of healing, which stresses the balance of mind, body, and spirit.
	A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures Ed. By G.P. Horse Capture and Emil Her Many Horses (Smithsonian Institution, c2006) Shelf Number: 636.1/SO6984s This informative volume gathers poems, photographs and brief contemporary essays alongside pieces from the National Museum of the American Indian to memorialize the relationship between Native Americans and their horses.
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	The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, A Nation Jenkins, Sally (Doubleday / Random House, c2007) Shelf Number: 796.33263/J52r The extraordinary story of Jim Thorpe’s football team at the Carlisle Indian School, a school founded by an army captain intent on “civilizing savages.” The Indians developed innovations like the forward pass and the double-wing formation, defied bigoted journalists and dishonest referees, and stunned the best teams in the nation for over two decades. Other famous names appear, like Sitting Bull, Dwight Eisenhower, and Teddy Roosevelt, and some forgotten names that should be remembered, like American Horse and Albert Exendine.
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	The Secret Powers of Naming Sara Littlecrow-Russell (Univ. of Arizona Press, c2006) Shelf Number: 811/L779s In this debut poetry collection, the author confronts the issues affecting contemporary Indians. She writes of the shame of welfare, low-wage jobs with nothing to show for it, alcoholism, violence, and assimilation. These poems are intense and evocative, offering much food for thought.
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	Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West Ned Blackhawk (Harvard Univ. Press, c2006) Shelf Number: 979.00497/B6288v The author writes about the experiences of the various Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone groups residing in what is now Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado and California. He demonstrates the consequences of past violence against these tribes, which continues to reverberate today. Blackhawk, a Western Shoshone, does not portray the Indians as victims. Instead, he demonstrates that their perseverance and ability to adapt to changing conditions over the last two centuries allowed them to help shape the world around them.
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	Where People Feast: An Indigenous People’s Cookbook Dolly Watts (Arsenal Pulp Press, c2007) Shelf Number: 641.59297/W349w The mother-daughter team who ran the Liliget Feast House share traditional and modern aboriginal recipes, including methods for smoking and drying wild game, preparing seafood, and preserving berries.
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