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Exploring the History of Photography and Indigenous Peoples

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From Turtle Island to Palestine…

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Indigenous Chicago

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Are Palestinian Scholars Our Colleagues?

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Writings of Abdaljawad Omar

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Demystifying Special Collections

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Unthanksgiving Day

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Land Back

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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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“G is for Genocide” by Danielle SeeWalker (@seewalker_art) who is Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta and citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

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Sep 20

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A librarians bag essentials: 📚📝✏️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸#ftp #acab

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Sep 20

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Yesterday I hosted the class I teach, with the amazing @heyhyrax through the Illinois Humanities Odyssey program (@ilhumanities), “Resistiendo el Imperio: Odiseas Colectivas.” It was all their first time visiting the @newberrylibrary and they really enjoyed their visit. I also truly enjoyed hosting them with my colleague @cvho05 📚💚📚they saw selections from the Indigenous studies collection and got a behind the scenes tour of the library 🥰

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📚🪶💚🌽🇵🇸 📚Hi everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve introduced myself and theres A LOT of new followers: first, this is not the library’s account, this is mine and only mine. 

My name is Analú López, I’m born, raised, and still reside in La Villita (the Southside of Chicago). I love my community and feel the safest with them 💚 you can read more about me/writings: www.analulopez.com

I work for a PWI (predominantly white institution), but I don’t always represent them in the work I do since I don’t believe all community work should be done or even guided through institutions. I’m a Librarian by training. At times my work cross pollinates but I also keep clear boundaries. Non-profits will not liberate us.

I consider myself an internationalist interested in Black and Indigenous solidarity/resistance movements fighting for liberation from settler colonialism, US imperialism across the globe.

REMINDERS: 
- For any library/professional requests, please email me at the library, not here. My email is on the library website. 
- Keep in mind I work with a lot of communities so though I try to respond quickly, at times I may not and appreciate a digital nudge via email. But also remember communities are my priority. 
- I don’t do collabs at the moment. 

And always: #freepalestine🇵🇸 From the 🏞️ to the 🌊, 🍉 will be 🆓 

#librarian #rarebooks #rarebooksofinstagram #freepalestine liberationforallIndigenouspeople boycottstarbucks solidaritywithpalestine 🔻

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Sep 12

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Despedida de un maderista y su triste amada (A Revolutionary’s Farewell to His Sad Lover) by the influential Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada, created around 1911 and published later in the 1943 portfolio 36 Grabados.

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Sep 7

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Day off reads 📚 I really enjoyed @jimterryart piece in here! 👻😱🫨

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Aug 31

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🔥📚💚Went to check out @chemaskandal show on Friday after work at @jamesbmarco and had some good times with friends @namans026 @juan_kafka and bb @whirlpoolparty

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Aug 21

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On August 21, 1791 the Haitian revolution began. Today we remember our enslaved cousins who rose up in the northern plantations of the then-French colony known as St Domingue. In spite of all the prohibitions the French enacted against our enslaved relatives they persisted- through doing much more than song and dance.

Over the next 13 years, our now Haitian relatives overthrew the chains of chattel slavery and created the world’s first Black republic. The revolutionary army went on to also defeated the Spanish Imperial forces in current day Dominican Republic and the bunk ass British army, which came to the aid of the colonizers.

Because the US feared the revolution would spread to mainland America we refused to recognise the republic until 1862 on January 1, 1863 mass murderer Abe Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Image: co-created by @ndn_emo_trash

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Aug 21

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🐶🐾💚We’ve had a tough Summer. On June 8th our oldest dog, Mazzy (@mazzythedachshund) passed on at the age 16. Then this past Sunday, August 16th, her brother Rollei (@rolleithedachshund), 14, decided it was his time to join her. We are heartbroken, but feel honored to have had them so long in our lives and to have loved them so much and unconditionally. 

Enjoy this story from the 16th century Florentine Codex about the importance of dogs and remember to love them unconditionally. Love them old as you loved them young.

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Aug 21

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🌽📚This illustration from folio 78r of the 16th-century Codex Magliabechiano is depicting a Nahua specialist or healer performing a divination ceremony using corn kernels to diagnose an illness.

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Aug 16

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“The ancient people of the West live on,” by Terran Last Gun (Piikani) @terranlastgun 

This drawing is made in the style of a Blackfeet ledger drawing. Executed on a “City Treasurer’s certificate of tax sale,” dated in Butte, Montana, on 3 March 1896. 

“Often referencing Blackfoot painted lodges and the visual iconographic vocabulary that accompanies them, my work explores the varying relationships between color, shape, nature, and sky. Blackfoot painted lodges are visual masterpieces of the Great Plains. They depict the world and cosmos in which we live through our natural surroundings, symbolic animals and helpers, and the above world that connects us to the Sun, Moon, and Morning Star. My work bridges the ancient to the contemporary. It reaches beyond, all while creating visual color stimulation in my varied approaches to making art: printmaking, painting, photography, and ledger drawing. I am revealing fragments of time, history, and Indigenous Abstraction—an art form that has continued for tens of thousands of years. I am creating a new Piikani art form that is bold, vivid, even humorous at times and has minimalist and geometric qualities that are potent in meaning, content, and place” [Artist’s statement from artist’s website]

Terran Last Gun (born 1989, Browning, Montana) is a visual artist and citizen of the Piikani (Blackfeet), who are members of the Siksikaitsitapii (Blackfoot Confederacy). He lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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The *Diálogo de doctrina christiana, en la lengua de Mechuacan* was written by the Franciscan friar Maturino Gilberti and published in Mexico in 1559 by the printer Juan Pablos. It is a monumental work in the Purépecha language that sets forth the fundamentals of the Catholic faith through a question-and-answer exchange between a teacher and a disciple.

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Aug 15

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Found another marca de fuego🔥📚💅🏽 #rarebookcollection #rarebooksofinstagram #newberrylibrary

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Aug 4

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NEW ACQUISITION: a collection of birch bark bitings by self taught birch bark biting artist and Two-Spirit educator @giiwedinindizhinikaaz from the St. Croix Chippewa of Wisconsin 💚 these are so beautiful and amazing and I’m honored to have them as part of the Indigenous studies collection!

Birchbark biting (Ojibwe: Mazinibaganjigan, plural: mazinibaganjiganan) is an art form made by Anishinaabeg, including Ojibwe people, Potawatomi, and Odawa, and Cree. Artists bite on small pieces of folded birch bark to form intricate designs.

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Jul 27

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Love this piece by @jamie_john.jpg 💚 thanks to @ndn_emo_trash 💚📚💚

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This librarians most favorite person 📚💚🥸 we celebrated 15 years together this year 🥰 #palestinewillbefree #love

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Another new-ish addition! The DigiTreaties Trading Cards are a set of 24 educational cards created by the Indigenous Digital Archive Treaties Explorer to illuminate historical agreements between Indigenous peoples and colonial powers. 

Design & Collaboration: Created by Dr. Lee Francis IV, Sherri Thomas, and Anna Naruta-Moya in partnership with the US National Archives and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

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I love when we get contemporary items like these into the collection. IndigiMatch is a memory-matching card game for children created by ATCG Media that highlights past and present Indigenous heroes.

You can still purchase it: https://atcgbooksandcomics.com/products/indigimatch-a-native-american-matching-game

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Jul 25

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Background image: 16th century confessionary I came across in the collection asking Indigenous people if they have gotten drunk off tepache or pulque 😅; second image: homemade tepache with a bit of agua de Jamaica (hibiscus water) made by @whirlpoolparty 🤤💚🌽

Tepache dates from Pre-Columbian Mexico, as a popular drink among the Nahua people of central Mexico; it derives from the Nahuatl tepiatl, which originally referred to “a drink made from raw corn, given to those who are fainting”. Originally, corn (maize) was the base of tepache, but the contemporary recipe for tepache uses pineapple rinds as the foodstuff fermented to produce the tart drink that is tepache. Some varieties of tepache, known as tepache de tibicos, are fermented using symbiotic cultures of tibicos.
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