Indigenous Peoples' Day is October 14

Indigenous Peoples' Day is October 14, 2024. Explore the books below to learn more about Indigenous voices, history, and experience. For more titles, try OneSearch, our online library catalog. 

Please join us for a special evening to learn the significance and symbolism of the Chumash signage located on Santa Barbara City College’s West Campus Bluffs. Únase a nosotros para una velada especial para conocer el significado y el simbolismo de los carteles de Chumash ubicados en West Campus Bluffs de Santa Barbara City college:

Reclaiming our Spaces / Recuperando Nuestros Espacios: Chumash Plática. Monday, October 14 - A special Indigenous Peoples’ Day Event! Lunes 14 de octubre - Un evento especial dia de pueblos Indígenas!

5:00 PM - Reception / Recepción @ West Campus Bluffs

5:30 PM - Signage blessing / Bendición de letreros

6:00 PM - Panel discussion / Plática Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation Members / Miembros y comunidad: Annette Cordero, Stephen Franco, Maura Sullivan. Ph. D, Solange Aguilar

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Books for Indigenous Peoples' Day:

• Ancient Light: Poems
  by Kimberly Blaeser, 2024 (ebook)
• Bead Talk: Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from the Flatlands
  by Carmen L. Robertson, et al., 2024 (ebook)
• Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness
  by Robert Aquinas McNally, 2024 (ebook)
• Challenge to Civilization: Indigenous Wisdom and the Future
  by Blair A. Stonechild, 2024 (ebook)
• A History in Indigenous Voices: Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Oneida, Stockbridge, and Brothertown Interactions in the Removal Era
  by Carol Cornelius, 2023 (ebook)
• Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation
  by  Michelle R. Jacobs, 2023 (print)
• Indigenous Peoples and Borders
  by Sheryl R. Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou, 2023 (print)
• An Indigenous Present
  by Jeffrey Gibbson et al., 2023 (print)
• On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
  by Caroline Dodds Pennock, 2023 (ebook)
• On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice
  by Ryan Emanuel, 2024 (ebook)
• This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands
  by Katherine Palmer Gordon and Dallas Smith, 2023 (ebook)
• Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
  by Angela Sterritt, 2023 (print)
• Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future
  by Jean Dennison, 2024 (ebook)
• Walking on Our Sacred Path: Indigenous American Women Affirming Identity and Activism
  by Isabel Dulfano, 2022 (ebook)