Native American Heritage Month

Beyond the Desk

Oct 25, 2022•36 min•Ep. 21

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Episode description

We welcome Meagan, an adult services librarian at WAPL, to the podcast. She joins Sarah to recommend books you might enjoy during Native American Heritage Month and beyond.

Titles discussed in this episode include: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer, Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen, The Sentence by Louise Erdrich, My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones and Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Read about the exhibit Border Cantos: bordercantos.com

Learn about another photography project that transformed immigrants’ discarded items into art: https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/02/22/tom-kiefer-photos-el-sueno-americano

Check out books and movies at countycat.mcfls.org, wplc.overdrive.com and hoopladigital.com. For more about WAPL, visit westallislibrary.org.

Music: Tim Moor via Pixabay

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