LibGuides: Native American Indian & Alaskan Heritage Month: Culture

Native American / Alaskan Cultures

Native North Americans - Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life (Vol. 2: Americas. 3rd ed.)
Native North Americans, or First Nations as they are known in Canada, were highly skilled providers and preparers of food, clothing, and shelter. They were fine artists and were deeply religious with complex belief systems. They were self-governed, independent societies, some with complex governmental structures.

Native American Culture Books/eBooks

Native American Culture Books/eBooks
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Indigenous Values & Aesthetics

Indigenous Values and Aesthetics by Jenna Makowski, Alexander Street Press
The videos in this playlist contain compelling subject matter informed by indigenous values and aesthetics. These values and aesthetics inform the stories that the films tell, and in doing so, they illuminate indigenous ways of knowing that enrich an understanding and appreciation of culture and society. There is often hidden meanings embedded in indigenous languages and cultures that are inaccessible to outsiders but that can be discovered and understood in these “cultural treasures”, films made by Pacific Islanders about themselves and their cultures.

American Indian Cultural Awareness - MCC New Media Lab Experience

Jolyana Bitsui - What it means to be a Navajo woman

Jolyana Bitsuie shares her journey becoming Miss Navajo Nation 2001/2002. As a young girl, she remembers moving away from the Navajo culture during her formative years as a high school student in Phoenix. Her mother understood, however, that one day she would come back and she did. Two days after being selected as Miss Navajo Nation, September 11th happened and she spent the next year representing the Navajo Nation across the country. As Miss Navajo, she shared what it meant to be a Navajo woman. She was the representation of her mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers, and communicated the importance of knowing who you are as an individual. Today, she teaches urban Navajos to keep their language and be proud of their roots, to ensure the survival of their language and culture.

Native American Movies & TV Shows to Watch

15 Native American Movies & TV Shows to Watch and Learn About Indigenous History and Culture
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, here is a guide to a few Indigenous-led films and shows that share a range of the values of resilience, sisterhood, language preservation, and climate justice amongst Indigenous communities, juxtaposed alongside ten films that focus on the United States' history of systemic violence, relocation, media erasure, forced sterilization, and boarding school brutality of Indigenous peoples.

Mogollon Culture

The archaeological record contains clues about a group of people who moved around the ancient Southwest making beautiful red ware pottery. Can we track these "Lost Mogollon" based on the pottery they left behind? Follow me as I take you on a whirlwind tour around the American Southwest to look at the clues related to these people and their stunning pottery. - Andy Ward