LibGuides: Native American Heritage Month: Home

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McHenry County College celebrates Native American Heritage Month!

Check out the 2018 Native American Heritage Month flyer for information on related events and activities.

For more information on MCC Campus Events see the Events Calendar.

Databases

Artstor This link opens in a new window
The Artstor Digital Library is an image database featuring images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars and artists. The collection below contains over 10,000 photographs of Native American subjects and about 2,000 Plains Indian ledger drawings:
- Native American Art and Culture (National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution)
Gale OneFile: U.S. History This link opens in a new window
This collection provides full-text access covering current thoughts on events in U.S. history as well as established scholarly work in the field.
Gale in Context: U.S. History This link opens in a new window
This resource provides full-text access to primary and secondary materials that cover some of the most widely studied topics in US history.
Gale Onefile: Diversity Studies This link opens in a new window
The Diversity Studies Collection explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. Provides partial full-text access to scholarly articles, magazine articles, and more.
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion.

November is Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month, also known as American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month, celebrates and recognizes the accomplishments of the peoples who were the original inhabitants, explorers and settlers of the United States.

According to the National Congress for American Indians, "The month is a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people. Heritage Month is also an opportune time to educate the general public about tribes, to raise a general awareness about the unique challenges Native people have faced both historically and in the present, and the ways in which tribal citizens have worked to conquer these challenges."

Native American Heritage Month Websites

Native American Heritage Month
Brought to you by The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
National Archives: Native American Heritage Month
US Census Bureau: American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month: November 2018
A curated collection of statistics about American Indians and Alaska Natives.
PBS: Native American Heritage Month
A four-part online documentary series.

Native America

Native America is a new four-part series airing on PBS from Oct. 23 - Nov. 13. This series explores the culture and history of America's First Peoples over the past 15,000 years. For more information, visit the program's website.

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