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Brooks Library Displays

This guide is meant to share book and media displays currently up at James E. Brooks Library.

Native American Heritage Month

Books in Brooks
Tales of the mighty code talkers
Surviving the city
We shall remain: American through native eyes
Thieves of time
Our spirits don't speak English: Indian boarding school
Promise land
Native American healing in the 21st century
Distant voices, thunder words
The last of his tribe
Powwow highway
The first code talkers: Native American communicators in World War I
The warrior, the voyager, and the artist: Three lives in an age of empire
This is our life: Haida materials 
Pan-tribal activism in the Pacific Northwest: The power of indigenous protest and the birth of Daybreak Star Cultural Center
Challenging traditions: Contemporary First Nations art of the Northwest Coast
Narrowing the achievement gap for Native American students: Paying the educational debt
Read aloud handbook for Native American children 
Changed forever: American Indian boarding-school literature
To win the Indian heart: Music at Chemawa Indian School
Native North American art
Objects of survivance: A material history of the American Indian school experience
Plundered skulls and stolen spirits: Inside the fight to reclaim native American's culture
Indigenous men and masculinities: Legacies, identities, regeneration
An Afro-Indigenous history of the Untied States 
Chehalis stories
Black Elk speaks: Being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux
Lakota America: A new history of Indigenous power
Original instructions: Indigenous teachings for a sustainable future
Giving back: Research and reciprocity in Indigenous settings
Masterpieces of Indian art
George Catlin: American Indian portraits 
Naming the world: Language and power among the Northern Arapaho
Telling from our elders: Lushootseed
American Indian makers of Hollywood 
The Cambridge companion to Native American Literature
Native American literature: A very short introduction
Reinventing the enemy's language: Contemporary native women's writing of North America
New poets of Native nations
When the light of the world was subdued, our songs came through: A Norton anthology of Native Nations poetry
Blasphemy: [new and elected stories] 
Indian killer 
The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven
Reservation blues
You don't have to say you love me: A memoir 
The bingo palace
Four souls: A novel
The last reports on the miracles at Little No Horse
The night watchman: A novel
Conflict resolution for holy beings: Poems
An American sunrise: Poems

 

Civic Engagement

 

 Books in Brooks
Our History is the Future: Standing Rock vs. the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Standing with Standing Rock : voices from the #NoDAPL movement
American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt
Voices Raised in Protest : Defending Citizens of Japanese Ancestry in North America, 1942-49
Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619-2000
Lift Every Voice : the NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America
Pure Fire
How We Stay Free: Notes on a Black Uprising
Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community
Readings on Social Movements : Origins, Dynamics and Outcomes
Latina Activists Across Borders
From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
Freedom is an Endless Meeting : Democracy in American Social Movements
Into the Streets: a Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States
Losing Our Way: An intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
The Disappearing Center: Engaged Citizens, Polarization, and American Society
When We Fight, We Win! Twenty-First Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World
Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don't Want You to See
Politics is for Power: How To Move Beyond Political Hobbyism, Take Action, and Make Real Change
Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America
The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movements to the Streets of Seattle
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Stonewall : The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context
The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
No Pity: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement
They Can't Kill Us All : Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement
All That Matters: Democracy
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction
How Democracies Die
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work
How To Be an Active Citizen
Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life
The deviant's war: The homosexual vs. the United States of America
Midnight in Washington: How we almost lost our democracy and still could
Super mad at everything all the time: Political media and our national anger
We the corporations: How American businesses won their civil rights
Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's fifty-year battle for a more unjust America
Suffrage: Women's long battle for the vote
Vanguard: How Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all

Crafts and Hobbies

Books in Brooks
An embroidery book of stitch craft: Simple stitches & peculiar patterns
Flintknapping: Making and understanding stone tools
Sculpture, the basic methods and materials
Linocuts and woodcuts; a complete block printing handbook
The woodcut artist's handbook: Techniques and tools for relief printmaking 
True brews: How to craft fermented cider, beer, wine, sake, soda, mead, kefir, and kombucha at home
Photographing works of art: Techniques for photographing your paintings, drawings, sculpture, and crafts
Handtools of arts and crafts: The encyclopedia of the fine, decorative, and applied arts
Made by hand: Contemporary makers, traditional practices
The woodwright's shop: A practical guide to traditional woodcraft
How to restore & repair practically everything 
The modern book of whittling and woodcarving
The needleworker's constant companion: Complete step-by-step instructions, with hundreds of projects, for dressmaking, sewing for the home, knitting plain and fancy, and all kinds of crocheting 
Reader's digest complete guide to sewing
Designs and patterns for embroiderers and craftsmen: 512 motifs from the Wm. Briggs and Company Ltd. "Album of transfer patterns"
Latvian mittens: Traditional designs & techniques 
Mary Thomas's book of knitting patterns
Creative knitting and crocheting
The complete book of traditional knitting 
Traditional knitting patterns: From Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Italy, and other European countries 
Pacific patchworks: New approaches to quilt design
American beauties: Rose and tulip quilts 
Rug weaving for beginners
The art and craft of nature dyeing: Traditional recipes for modern use
Bouquets from beads
Creative cards: Wrap a message with a personal touch
Origami for Christmas
Photocollage made simple
Paper-craft: Design and art with paper 
Textile surface decoration: Silk and velvet