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DPL ADULTS: Native American Heritage Month

Updated November 2024 Also known as American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month, November is a time to both celebrate vibrant cultures and reflect on losses suffered. DPL acknowledges our libraries sit on traditional lands of Wasco, Warm Springs, and Paiute bands; additionally, Columbia River tribes were seasonal inhabitants. In order with website first, then video, and then by topic.

Deschutes Public Library

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  • Created by Travel Oregon and the Tribal Tourism Working Group, this publications provides detailed profiles about each tribe; ways to respect Indigenous peoples’ land, history and cultures; information on tribal museums and casino resorts;…
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  • Project 562 is a multi-year national photography project dedicated to photographing over 562 federally recognized tribes in The United States.
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  • Streaming VideoBend, Oregon : YouTube [Host], 2020.
  • Available free through the library's Kanopy subscription. GATHER follows the stories of natives on the frontlines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide.
    Web resource
  • Oregon Indians

    Voices From Two Centuries

    In this volume, Stephen Dow Beckham brings together for the first time commentary by Native Americans about the events affecting their lives in Oregon. This remarkable collection strives to let Oregon Indians tell their own story and, in…
    BookCorvallis, Or. : Oregon State University Press, 2006. — OCHOCO 979.5004 Oregon
  • Revised and expanded from the original 1991 publication, The First Oregonians provides a comprehensive view of Oregon's native peoples from the past to the present.
    BookPortland, Or. : Oregon Council for the Humanities, 2007. — REF OCHOCO 970.00497 First
  • A photographic and historical view of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.
    BookPortland, Oregon : Oregon Historical Society Press, 1987. — CENTRAL OREGON / 979.562 STOWELL CYNTHIA
  • The Art of Ceremony

    Voices of Renewal From Indigenous Oregon

    Dobkins, Rebecca J.
    Provides a contemporary and historical overview of the nine federally recognized tribes in Oregon, through rich conversations with tribal representatives who convey their commitments to ceremonial practices and the inseparable need to…
    BookSeattle : University of Washington Press, [2022] — SOCIETY & CULTURES / GENERAL / 979.5 DOBKINS REBECCA
  • Legends of the Northern Paiute shares and preserves twenty-one original and previously unpublished Northern Paiute legends, as told by Wilson Wewa, a spiritual leader and oral historian of the Warm Springs Paiute.
    BookCorvallis, OR : Oregon State University Press, 2017. — CENTRAL OREGON / 398.2089973 WEWA WILSON
  • The People of Warm Springs

    Profile : the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

    Pictorial history of Warm Springs.
    Book[Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon] : Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, [1984] — CENTRAL OREGON / 970.495 PEOPLE
  • Established in 1855 on an area one-fifteenth the size of the lands relinquished in return for it, the Warm Springs Reservation in north central Oregon is home to some 3,600 Warm Springs, Wasco, and Paiute Indians, half of whom are under…
    BookAustin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2000. — OCHOCO 979.562 Baughman
  • Power in the Telling

    Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era

    Colley, Brook
    Through extensive interviews, Colley brings to the forefront Indigenous perspectives on intertribal conflict related to tribal gaming. She reveals how casino economies affect the relationship between gaming tribes and federal and state…
    BookSeattle : University of Washington Press, [2018] — CENTRAL OREGON / 979.561 COLLEY BROOK
  • When the River Ran Wild!

    Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation

    Aguilar, George, 1930-
    In this remarkable personal memoir and tribal history, we learn about Aguilar's people, the Kiksht-speaking Eastern Chinookans, who lived and worked for centuries connected to the rhythms and resources of the great fishing grounds of the…
    BookPortland, Oregon : Oregon Historical Society Press ; Seattle : in association with University of Washington Press, 2005. — CENTRAL OREGON / 970.497 AGUILAR GEORGE
  • Oregon Archaeology tells the story of Oregon's cultural history beginning more than 14,000 years ago with the earliest evidence of human occupation and continuing into the twentieth century.
    BookCorvallis : Oregon State University Press, [2011] — 930.1 AIKENS C
  • Coyote Was Going There

    Indian Literature of the Oregon Country

    The vivid imagination, robust humor, and profound sense of place of the Indians of Oregon are revealed in this anthology.
    BookSeattle : University of Washington Press, 1980. — OCHOCO 398.2097 Coyote