We are honored to present the first Native American Heritage Month Timberland Regional Library card!

 

Ovila Mailhot, I am Coast Salish (Sto:lo and Nlaka’pamux Nations) graphic artist and designer originally from Seabird Island Reserve in British Columbia. I have lived in the Fraser Valley (Coast Salish Territory) all my life, until recently moving to the Midwest, and come from a long line of creatives who have shaped Indigenous art, literature, scholarship, activism, and representation.

My family’s legacy in these fields have demanded not only a reckoning with stereotypes of Indigenous peoples but have also built a foundation for visual and literary activism and representations of Indigenous people. I am the first in my family to take up graphic art and design, but my work still carries a stylistically Salish level of simplicity: it must not obscure itself – that is the tradition I have inherited. My art is meant to add to a continuum within Coast Salish culture, one so rich and expansive that it still hasn’t been fully actualized within or received by mainstream culture.

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“What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S. has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose.

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One of the very proponents of American Indian Day was Dr. Arthur C. Parker, a Seneca Indian, who was the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. He persuaded the Boy Scouts of America to set aside a day for the “First Americans,” and for three years, they adopted such a day. In 1915, the annual Congress of the American Indian Association meeting in Lawrence, Kans., formally approved a plan concerning American Indian Day. It directed its president, Rev. Sherman Coolidge, an Arapahoe, to call upon the country to observe such a day. Coolidge proclaimed on Sept. 28, 1915, which declared the second Saturday of each May as an American Indian Day and contained the first formal appeal to recognize Indians as citizens.

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The year before this proclamation was issued, Red Fox James, a Blackfoot Indian, rode horseback from state to state, seeking approval for a day to honor Indians. On December 14, 1915, he presented the endorsements of 24 state governments at the White House. There is no record, however, of such a national day being proclaimed.

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The first American Indian Day in a state was declared on the second Saturday in May 1916 by the governor of New York. Several states celebrate the fourth Friday in September. In Illinois, for example, legislators enacted such a day in 1919. Presently, several states have designated Columbus Day as Native American Day, but it continues to be a day we observe without any recognition as a national legal holiday.

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In 1990 President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 “National American Indian Heritage Month.” Similar proclamations, under variants on the name (including “Native American Heritage Month” and “National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month”) have been issued each year since 1994.” - Source https://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/about/

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• Kanopy
  ​On-demand streaming platform with over 30,000 indie and classic films. Users are allowed 8 plays per month. *Please note, per Kanopy's Terms of Service, users must be 18 years old or over OR have the involvement of their parent or legal guardian to use Kanopy. Set up a personalized PIN to keep your kids inside Kanopy Kids.
  Most films on Kanopy include public performance rights (PPR) at no additional cost. You can screen films that have PPR in any group programming that doesn’t charge admission. These rights extend to the film title and any images from our website you want to use to advertise the screening as long as source credit is given to Kanopy.

Children of the Arctic: A Powerful Portrait of 5 Alaskan Teenagers: "A year-in-the-life portrait of Native Alaskan teenagers coming of age in Barrow, Alaska - the northern-most community of the United States. "

Ishi’s Return: “The Last Wild Indian”: "A short documentary about Ishi, billed in 1911 as the “last wild Indian" when he wandered out of the woods in Oroville, CA, and became a national sensation. When Ishi died, his brain was removed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Eighty years later, his descendants in California fight to have his remains repatriated to his ancestral home."

TE ATA (TAY’ AH-TAH): "based on the inspiring true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a woman who traversed cultural barriers to become one of the greatest Native American performers of..."

 

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Native American Art Magazine

 

• Washington Rural Heritage Project
  Community memory project headquartered at the Washington State Library. The project combines unique local history materials from libraries, museums, and private collections of citizens across Washington State.

   

• HeritageQuest Online
  Genealogy books and serials, and Federal Census data. This database contains an index of the Indian census rolls from 1885-1940.

   

• Northwest Digital Heritage
  Collaboration between the Washington State Library, State Library of Oregon, and Oregon Heritage Commission serves libraries and cultural heritage institutions across the Pacific Northwest region.
  History of Survivance: Upper Midwest 19th-Century Native American Narratives. The following is an exhibit of resources found within the Digital Public Library of America retold through the lens of Native American survivance. Ancient Legacies, Colonization, Colonial Narratives, Conflict, Reservation Era, Survivance.

 

State

• Native Americans of Puget Sound — A Brief History of the First People and Their Cultures
• Pacific Northwest Tribal Governments, Museums, and Cultural Centers
• Story Samish Maiden Deception Pass
• Billy Frank jr.org

 

National

• “Why We Serve” - Native Americans in the United States Armed Forces
• Warrior Woman Project – #Followthematriarchs
• The Library of Congress Events
• National Park Service
• U.S. Department of the Interior Indian Affairs Events
• “In Their Words” - 30 Stories for 30 days of Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month
• Youth in Action – “Conversations About Our Future” – Native Changemakers across the country playwrights and actors reimagining and redefining representation across the stage. Free forum - Register here