Community Corner
Hennepin County Library: Indigenous Peoples Day Is October 11
Join your library as we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in Minnesota on Monday, October 11.
October 04, 2021
Join your library as we celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day in Minnesota on Monday, October 11.
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Online events
Franklin Library's Community Read: The Seed Keeper
Monday, October 11, 7-8 p.m.
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day by joining Franklin Library's Community Read!
Read "The Seed Keeper" on your own, then join author Diane Wilson (Dakota) to discuss the book in a live, virtual event. Join the event.
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A limited number of free copies of The Seed Keeper are available at Franklin Library.
Funded by Friends of the Hennepin County Library.
Dial-a-Story for Adults
October 20-26
Call 612-543-8851 and listen to library staff read the short story “Wolf Island” by horror writer Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet).
Book lists
Lists of recommended books selected by Hennepin County Library’s Makoce Team
Music
Tufawon is a local artist on the library's free music streaming service, MNspin. Listen to his albums. He has written a song about the Franklin Avenue community. Watch the video.
Online resources
- American Indian Experience - Articles on the Native tribes of North America as well as primary sources, including treaties, speeches, traditional tales, maps, and images.
- Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye (DIO, Dakota Language Society) - Features a helpful oral resource in learning the language and has links to the Dakota keyboard, which is helpful in practicing Dakota.
- Ojibwe Language Resources from Bemidji State University.
- Transparent Language Online includes resources for Ojibwe language learning.
This press release was produced by Hennepin County Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.
