November 1, 2019 | SuzyQ

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush declared the month of November as "National American Indian Heritage Month", which has come to be commonly referred to as Native American Heritage Month. By either name it is a time of "recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S." The Library's collection is a great place to look for materials about Native Americans and their place in our country's history.

500 nations : an illustrated history of North American Indians by Alvin M. Josephy

Native American almanac : more than 50,000 years of the cultures and histories of indigenous peoples by Yvonne Wakim Dennis

Indian nations of North America

Encyclopedia of native tribes of North America by Michael Johnson

Daily life of Native Americans from post-Columbian through nineteenth-century America by Alice N Nash

The historical atlas of Native Americans by Ian Barnes

Timelines of Native American history : through the centuries with Mother Earth and Father Sky by Susan Hazen-Hammond

Cahokia : ancient America's great city on the Mississippi by Timothy R Pauketat

Almost a thousand years ago, a Native American city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Cahokia was a thriving metropolis at its height, with a population of 20,000, a sprawling central plaza, and scores of spectacular earthen mounds. The city gave rise to a new culture that spread across the plains-- yet by 1400 it had been abandoned, leaving only the giant mounds as monuments, and traces of its influence in tribes we know today. Here is the story of the city and its people as uncovered by American archaeologists.

Great Indian leaders & nations [videodisc]

Chronicles the history of Native American leaders and chiefs such as Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, and Quanah Parker as well as the history of the six Native American nations of the Iroquois, the Seminoles, the Shawnee, the Navajo, the Cheyenne, and the Lakota Sioux.