Native American Heritage Month 2021: Home
Introduction
November is Native American Heritage Month (NAHM) and this year, the Labriola National American Indian Data Center returns with new book displays highlighting this year's themes.
This year's theme focuses on two different views. The first is “Broken Promises” at West Campus’ Fletcher Library entrance. The second theme is “Reunite, Reignite, Revitalize” located at Hayden Library on the Tempe campus. Fletcher Library’s theme discusses Indigenous issues with the U.S. government. Meanwhile, Hayden’s theme aligns with the ASU NAHM Committee’s theme for the month, as well as looks towards battling and enduring Broken Promises, and explores Indigeneity in modern colonial society.
- Indigenous Land AcknowledgementRead ASU Library's Land Statement before going futher!
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Labriola NAHM Events
November 4, 2021 
Location: Hayden 317 & Zoom
Student Registration link: HERE
The Labriola National American Indian Data Center is excited to be sponsoring IndiGenius and MMIASU’s (Mr./Ms. Indigenous at ASU’s) Ribbon Skirt and Shirt Workshop event this Native American Heritage Month. This event will be Hybrid, accessible on zoom and in- person. Come out, enjoy some snacks, and create a ribbon skirt that represents pride in yourself and Indigeneity!
November 10, 2021
Location: Online (sign up here) & ASU Labriola Center - Fletcher Library-Room 305 (West)
Join us for an author talk featuring Ursula Pike (Karuk Tribe). She will be discussing her latest book, An Indian among los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir, which details her time in Bolivia as a Peace Corps volunteer. This book retells her experience as a Karuk woman from the United States connecting with Indigenous peoples in Bolivia, and the challenges she faced due to neo-colonialism.
This event seeks to highlight the connection between US-based tribes and Central and South America tribes, and the insidious nature of neo-colonialism.
November 17, 2021
Sol Power Dance cipher: NAHM edition
Location: Hayden Library West Patio
In partnership with ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and Phoenix/Arizona Hip Hop community, the Sol Power project and Labriola Center will be hosting a dance cipher at the Hayden Library which will feature Indigenous deejays, dancers and artists Tomahawk Bang (Onk Akimel O’odham), Randy B. (Diné) and DJ Reflekshin (Diné). This intersectional event seeks to creatively engage the ASU community on the transformative power of Hip Hop culture and uplift modern Indigenous forms of expression.
This event seeks to highlight the role Hip Hop culture plays in modern indigeneity and seeks to demonstrate the intersectional nature of Hip Hop culture.
November 18, 2021
Labriola Lofi-Beats Study/Chill/Decompress Session
Location: Hayden Library-Labriola Center 2nd floor space, Fletcher Library-Labriola Room 305 and Online!
In preparation for the end of the semester, the Labriola Center will host a live “Lofi Beat” set by Apetight [apəˌtīte]. Stemming from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Apetight will be providing a three hour deejay/beat set that seeks to support academic success going into Finals week. Based on preference, students can enjoy his musical stylings either in-person at the second floor Labriola Center space within the Hayden Library, or access the set online through the Labriola Center Instagram and/or YouTube channel.
The event seeks to support student academic success going into Finals week. Additionally it seeks to highlight modern Indigenous musicians and deejays.
Being Indigenous by ISBN: 1138314900Publication date: 2018-11-29This volume gives voice to an impressive range of Indigenous authors who share their knowledge and perspectives on issues that pertain to activism, culture, language and identity ¿ the fabric of being Indigenous. The contributions highlight the experiences of Indigenous peoples from a variety of countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Greenland, Norway and Russia. The book provides valuable historical and political insight into the lingering impact of colonization, considering the issues faced by Indigenous peoples today and reflecting on the ability of their cultures, languages and identities to survive in the twenty-first century.
Native American Heritage Month Committee
- Native American Heritage Month EventsSee what Student Organizations have planned for the month.
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The ASU Library acknowledges the twenty-three Native Nations that have inhabited this land for centuries. Arizona State University's four campuses are located in the Salt River Valley on ancestral territories of Indigenous peoples, including the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee Posh (Maricopa) Indian Communities, whose care and keeping of these lands allows us to be here today. ASU Library acknowledges the sovereignty of these nations and seeks to foster an environment of success and possibility for Native American students and patrons. We are advocates for the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge systems and research methodologies within contemporary library practice. ASU Library welcomes members of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh, and all Native nations to the Library.
