New Native American Related Resources at the Library

Excelsior!

Greetings. Here at the NMTC Library we would like to inform you of two books we have recently received, both of which relate to Native American studies.

The first is a 2008 biography of noted Lakota chief Sitting Bull. This book is by Bill Yenne. The cover is interesing because it features a very stoic portrait of the man himself. Also, at the bottom center of the cover, you can see the autograph of the English version of his name that Sitting Bull learned to write. Just beyond the title page, the book quotes the Dictionary of Canadian Biography as follows: "the greatest Indian engima of his time, perhaps of all time."

A review of this work is available in Galileo . Go to Databases A-Z, then go to 'B,' then go to Book Index with Reviews. Search by title and limit the publication dates to 2008. Then you will find a review of this work.

We also have the book 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. The book deals with how the Native Americans lived prior to the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. (Although the Vikings got to North America before that and some say that English fisherman had contact with First Nations tribes off the coast of Newfoundland in the mid-1400's.) One area the book focuses on is the large cities that Native Americans constructed, such as Tenochtitlan in Mexico and Cahokia in Illinois.

A review is available of this work as well in Book Index with Reviews. Do a title search for 1491.

We are very pleased to have both of these resources available at the North Metro Technical College Library for your use. The 1491 book is considered one of the definitive popular books on Native American studies of the last few years.

JWF