This month, find out about Finals plans, future projects, and Native American Heritage Month!

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Find out our end-of-semester plans, celebrate Native American Heritage, and get a sneak peak of Spring!
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What you can find this month:

Finals and Therapy Dogs!

Native American Heritage Month

Coming up in Spring

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Finals Feast and Therapy Dogs!

by Katherine Sleyko

We know that the end of the semester is closing in, and you're probably missing the library already. But no need to fret just yet! We plan on going out with a bang.

First, we'll be having our traditional Finals Beverage Break. This time, though, we'll have something new—snacks! The PSC Board let us change our policy to allow polite snacking in the library. We'll set these snacks out at set times during the day, so even if you miss our early offerings, you can take advantage of some later ones.

But that's not even the best part. From noon to 2pm on Wednesday, December 11, we'll have trained therapy dogs from Lutheran Church Charities in the library, just waiting to be petted! If you're not a fan of dogs, that's fine too. They'll be in the back of the library, so you can easily avoid them.

Celebrating Native American Heritage

by Katherine Sleyko

November is the US' offical Native American Heritage Month! Chicago was created out of marshland by Native Americans, our streets still follow Indigenous trails, and our reputation as a central city was created by Native traders. Though Native American cultures absolutely impacted our past, they are still around and thriving, especially around Chicago.

According to the American Indian Center, Chicago hosts the third-largest urban Native American population in the country, with representatives from over a hundred tribes! Our land is also the original home of the Three Fires Confederacy (the term for the combined Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi tribes), as well as the Ho-Chunk, Miami, Inoka, Menominee, Sac, Fox, and their descendants. Though we now live here, it's important to remember that these Indigenous peoples are the stewards of this land, on which they still live and thrive.

This November, celebrate the Native heritage being created right now, as well as its history!

Everything you know about Indians is wrong

Paul Chaat Smith

Confounding the color line: the Indian-Black experience in North America

James F. Brooks, editor

The Mixtecs of Oaxaca: ancient times to the present

Ronald Spores

Indians playing Indian: multiculturalism and contemporary indigenous art in North America

Monika Siebert

Nation to nation: treaties between the United States & American Indian Nations

Suzan Shown Harjo

Savage kin: indigenous informants and American anthropologists

Margaret M. Bruchac

Red skin, white masks: rejecting the colonial politics of recognition

Glen Sean Coulthard

The Lakotas and the Black Hills: the struggle for sacred ground

Jeffery Ostler

Spring Event Preview

by Katherine Sleyko

We know that you'll miss us throughout your Winter Break. Don't worry, though, because we'll be coming back in full force for Spring!

Keep a lookout for our annual Oscars voting contest, starting whenever the nominees are announced. Darwin Day will again be held this February 13 in the Conference Center, presented by the Natural Sciences departments and the library.

Our biggest event, though, is arriving in the middle of March: the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and American Libraries Association's travelling exhibit, Americans and the Holocaust. This program looks at how Americans view ourselves, and the realities of Americans' actions during World War II and its leadup.

We are one of only 50 libraries in the country selected to host this exhibit. Not only that, we're one of the first to display it! Our exhibit will be displayed in the library and feature large panel displays, interactive programs, and videos.

PSC faculty will be leading programs and workshops related to the exhibit—more on this as we get closer to the exhibit's arrival. Americans and the Holocaust: A Traveling Exhibition for Libraries is made possible by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Library Association.

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