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History / Library / Photos

Exploring the History of Photography and Indigenous Peoples

September 30, 2025
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Hazem Jamjoum

May 21, 2025
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From Turtle Island to Palestine…

January 20, 2025
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Indigenous Chicago

September 3, 2024
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Are Palestinian Scholars Our Colleagues?

July 26, 2024
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Writings of Abdaljawad Omar

June 1, 2024
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Are Libraries Sacred?

March 25, 2024
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I Stand with Palestine

October 28, 2023
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Demystifying Special Collections

August 5, 2023
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BIPOC Librarians to know

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Unthanksgiving Day

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Land Back

September 1, 2021
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Abolish the police

 

April 26, 2021
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Analú María López
Librarian & Photographer

Analú María López (Huachichil/Xi’úi) is a Librarian, Photographer, and Writer living in Šikaakonki, Zhigaagoong, Zhekagoynak, or so called “Chicago.” This land is and will always be Indigenous land.

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Mar 8

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Pointing at where is says “Popo Vuh” in the Popol Wuj 💅🏽📚 📷 @angiestarstudios 

#library #librarianofinstagram #rarebooksofinstagram #IndigenousLibrarian

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Mar 8

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It’s been a busy time for me, but a very fulfilling, busy time. I hosted three groups to the library this past week 📚💚📚 

Group 1: All women’s book club from @verdehws who wanted to view the Popol Vuh and related materials
Group 2: An annual visit from a high school I love working with from Loyola Academy focused on Spanish Literatures 
Group 3: A new group I haven’t worked with visiting from Wabash College (in Indiana!!!) researching Indigenous-Spanish relations 

#librarian #rarebooksofinstagram #freepalestine #IndigenousLibrarian #booksofinstagram

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Feb 22

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📚😘💅🏽 

Earrings: @u_kno_chi2 💚
Nails: @dulcemal_nailstudio 
Keffiyehs: @hirbawi 
Bag: @sabatier1947 

#librarian #indigenouslibrarian #solidaritywithpalestine

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Feb 18

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Showed some cool stuff for @n.orkstein NLUS (Newberry Library Undergraduate seminar) yesterday related to papel Amate. Items ranged from 1500’s to 2024 📚💚💅🏽

Amate is a type of bark paper that has been manufactured in Mexico since the pre-invasion times.

Though still used for ceremonial purposes in some villages, it is now popular for colorful, stylized paintings of birds and flowers, as well as in collage, lampshades, and bookbinding.

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Feb 9

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📚📚📚#librariansofinstagram #librarians #palestinewillbefree 

Nails: @dulcemal_nailstudio 
Palestinian Keffiyeh: @hirbawi 
Strawberry shortcake earmuffs: @fivebelow 
Bag: @sabatier1947

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Jan 26

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It’s been very cold here in Chicago, so bringing the chocolate series back over these next couple days 🥶🍫☕️📚💚 #cacao #chocolate #rarebooksofinstagram #librarygram

P.s. I’m born and raised here in Chicago and the only thing I’ve gotten used to is complaining about the weather when it’s too cold 💅🏽

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Jan 23

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Hope y’all are keeping warm today. The library is closed, but it reopens tomorrow. I’ll have some new  book and manuscript content then. Till then, stay warm, cute, and Free Palestine 💅🏽📚💚

Kufiya: @hirbawi 
Earrings: @mixedbloodcreeations 
Earmuffs: @fivebelow 
Bag: @portlandleather 
Nails: @dulcemal_nailstudio 

#freepalestine #librarian #rarebooksofinstagram #liberationforallindigenouspeople solidaritywithpalestine

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Jan 17

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Book recommendation 📚

Earrings: @u_kno_chi2 
Nails: @dulcemal_nailstudio 
Song: @nemahsis

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Jan 12

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📚📚📚2025 book haul & watch until the end and give @pilsencommunitybooks a follow 📚💚😘

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Jan 8

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Shoutout to @pilsencommunitybooks for always hooking it up with good 📚📚💚📚📚

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Jan 4

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Saturday office hours post-holidays: lots of emails. 

💅🏽 thanks to @dulcemal_nailstudio 

#librariansofinstagram #librarianlife #librarian #palestinewillbefree #abolishthepolice

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Dec 24

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When I’m not doing librarian things, I’m making OOTD TikTok’s with my bb @whirlpoolparty 🤣🥰💚📚#librarian #librariansofinstagram #librarianstyle #skullpanda #ootd

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Nov 30

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I walked a lot and even jogged through the woods to catch a train 🤣📚🖼️🎨✈️ public transportation is always a lot of fun too and I didn’t get lost!

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Nov 28

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Hosts at the museum in Paris were so sweet and accommodating, I will always be grateful to them. Paris folks know how to treat their guests. It was nice to be part of this important delegation celebrating 300 years since their ancestors visited Paris. I enjoyed hearing their talks, hanging and all the laughs 💚📚 😘 I am so grateful for a life and career (I worked my ass off for) that allows me to travel to places I never, ever thought I’d see ✈️

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Nov 23

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Nov 7

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Long day in the library today filled with lots of fun stuff and meeting new patrons to the library 📚💚

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #poetry #beadwork

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Nov 6

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For those of you who don’t know, I’m born and raised (and still live in) La Villita (Little Village). My family came in waves here to the city but have always been Southsiders. I absolutely love our community, it’s where my strength comes from and where I’m grounded. Shits been hard recently, but we are so strong and united. If you find the time, come visit us down here in the hood. Support the vendors especially. #chingalamigra #fuckice 

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Nov 6

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I adore a lot of things and if you’re wondering about the weird aura, I was [am] hot 💅🏽🤣 p.s. yes, that’s a pimple. 

Zines: Allernatives to White Sage, Palo Santo, Cedar; Sweetgrass, and Copal: A GUIDE TO NON-APPROPRIATIVE BURNABLE ALTERNATIVES BY SOLANGE AGUILAR (@shesanargonaut); 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance (2002); Native Pop! Zine (2025). 
Earrings: @u_kno_chi2 
Bag(s): @iopelle_italia / @portlandleather (smaller crossbody) *I have an admiration for leather work because my paternal grandfather worked with leather and specifically a shoemaker 💚
Coat: @definitiveselection 
Kuffiyeh: @hirbawi 

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #zines #beadwork

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Oct 29

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📚It was a long last couple weeks: hosting classes with colleague @n.orkstein focused on Immigration in Chicago where I showed items from @justseeds as well as many other gems in the collection; a three days symposium on the Philippines, which I also spoke at briefly, at the @newberrylibrary as well as the annual Forbidden Newberry event where I showed collection items related to the Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) and finally doing a fit check with my friend @juanmolinahernandez at the beginning of the week/video 📚
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