**Information Launch Submitted by Danbury Library**
This November, be a part of Danbury Library in observing Nationwide Native American Heritage Month the place the cultures, traditions, languages, and tales of Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and affiliated Island communities can be accentuated via curated e book lists, digital media, and academic programming for all ages.
Patrons can uncover notable authors and borrow really useful titles for youngsters and adults. All through the month patrons can entry particular collections of movies, tv, music, and books on Kanopy, Hoopla, and Libby, all free with a Danbury Library card. Library applications for youngsters and households embrace Have a good time Cherokee Heritage: Create Your Personal Dream Catcher, Iroquois Confederacy Wampum Belt Beading, and Corn Husk Doll Making.
Adults are invited to tune into two digital creator talks: A Navajo Investigator’s Seek for the Unexplained: In Dialog with Stanley Milford, Jr. and Native Rights and Tradition in Fiction: A Dialog with Mona Susan Energy. Patrons of all ages are welcome to attend two in-person occasions: Indigenous Music in North America: A Participatory Introduction with Craig Harris and “A Storied Custom” with the Institute for American Indian Research lead by Darlene Kascak of the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation.
All occasions and actions are free, open to the general public, and happen both on the Danbury Library positioned at 170 Primary Road or on-line. Go to danburylibrary.org/NAHM to seek out extra data and to register for applications.
Danbury Library acknowledges that the library constructing sits on the ancestral land of the Pequonnock, Schaghticoke, Paugussett, and Wappinger Peoples. The Connecticut Division of Training acknowledges 5 Jap Woodland Tribes: Jap Pequot Tribal Nation, Golden Hill Paugussett Tribal Nation, Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation, Mohegan Tribe, and the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation. Representatives from every of those tribes contribute to Okay-12 curriculum improvement within the state in order that college students obtain an correct, culturally competent understanding of Native American life, historical past, and future on lands in and round Connecticut.
To help such studying for each college students and adults, the library has compiled an inventory of on-line academic sources for private analysis or classroom lesson help. From right here, patrons can discover the Native Northeast Analysis Collaborative, Library of Congress archives and data, Institute for American Indian Research, and Mashantucket Pequot Museum. Lecturers particularly will discover a useful assortment of lesson plans, main sources, webinars, and extra via the Nationwide Museum of the American Indian from the Smithsonian to be used in their very own lecture rooms.
As a vital metropolis asset, the Danbury Library is dedicated to being a welcoming vacation spot, aware of the wants of our metropolis’s various group, and a supply of inspiration via phrases and concepts.
