National Native American Heritage Month Display

On October 31, 2013, President Obama proclaimed the month of November 2013 as National Native American Heritage Month. To observe this special month, the McKusick Law Library created a display of selected books from its collection on Native American culture and history. Included in the display are Reflections on American Indian History: Honoring the Past, Building a Future, edited by Alberto L. Hurtado, a volume of essays originating from the 2005 Wilma Mankiller Symposium on American History, American Indian Nations: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, edited by George Horse Capture, Duane Champagne and Chandler C. Jackson, a series of essays on the problems and achievements of modern Native peoples, Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America, by Michael G. Johnson and Richard Hook, and Women of the Native Struggle: Portraits and Testimony of Native American Women, by Ronnie Farley.  These books are only a few of the books on Native culture and history available to be checked out from the Law Library.

For more information, visit the Library of Congress's website on Native American Heritage Month.  Listen to stories from Native American veterans from the Veterans' History Project, including Marcella Ryan Le Beau from South Dakota.  Watch the video on the Bdote Memory Map, an oral history on places of importance to the Bdote Dakota people of Minnesota.