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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

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Abolish the police

 

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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 23

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REPOST FROM: @typeelectives 🚨 Applications for Provoking Type have been extended through March 1st! 📣✨

We’re so excited to share this incredible lineup of guest speakers—an inspiring mix of type designers, researchers, and educators bringing deep, diverse, and experienced perspectives on typography. They’ll be digging into how our relationships to type shape the way we see the world and how we communicate within it.

💖 We have scholarships! Link in bio to apply and learn more 🔗

About: Provoking Type is a 5-week course that invites participants to take a critical & decolonial lens to type and its role in history, culture, technology, power structures, and identity to explore and reimagine the narratives, contexts, and futures of type. Instructor Schessa Garbutt (@the_schessa) and guest lecturers offer their critical perspectives on type as a tool and medium, centering BIPOC and othered histories, research methods, and intellectual mirrors while examining classic eurocentric, patriarchal, and capitalist views of the craft.

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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 22

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Reminder from @goodshepherdcollective 💚📚💚 I see you and thank you to all of those in community who see me 💚📚💚

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Feb 22

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Thanks @iguzma3 and co. for the invitation to speak at yesterdays Loyola History Graduate conference and for bringing us together. Had the honor to share space with two other South side, dope WOC cultural workers working in GLAM/Cultural spaces 📚💚📚

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Feb 21

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The burning of archives, libraries and universities is a colonial tactic aimed to erase Indigenous heritage, culture, and history. Genocide is one side of the coin while epistemicide the other.
Historically, both happened here in the Western hemisphere and in many ways continue, embedded within the structure of our settler society still seeking to erase and replace Indigenous peoples, cultures, and histories. Settler colonialism has inserted itselt into North America for 532 years and its tentacles of imperialism stretch globally to Palestine.

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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 16

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New books for home collection, thanks to @pilsencommunitybooks 📚💚

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Feb 14

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Ma nemikan tomasewaltlalwan.
Ma nemikan totlahtolwan.
Ma techkawakan tinemiskeh! 🔥✊🏽💚

On Oct. 12, 1992: Indigenous people in Latin-America have been toppling statues of white oppressors for a long long time! “I am one of those who took down the statue. Why tell lies, things must be clear, those of the Emiliano Zapata Peasant Organization (OCEZ) did it; that is the historical truth.” 

The statue of Mazariegos, “symbol of the conquest, colonialism, exploitation, racism and looting”, was placed in front of the Santo Domingo temple and was demolished when thousands of people marched to commemorate the 500 years of Indigenous and popular resistance, and protesting the repression that prevailed.

Some of the phrases that were read on their cards expressed phrases such as: "Today marks 500 years of theft, death and destruction of the indigenous people", "October 12, day of misfortune" or "Christopher Columbus, bald ass." Two years later, in January 1994, in Chiapas there would be another uprising, now armed and more organized, called the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, made up of the Tsotsil, Tseltal, Tojolabal, Ch'ol and Zoque Indigenous peoples.

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Most images in black & white/color are of Indigenous people/ Members of ANCIE, a predecessor of the EZLN, tore down the statue of conquistador Diego de Mazariegos in San Cristobal, Chiapas during the march marking the 500th anniversary of the so-called “discovery” of America. Later the statue's head was paraded in the streets 📸: Antonio Turok

#indigenouspeoplesday #decolonizationday #EZLN #ZAPATISTAS christophercolumbitch

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Feb 13

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Happy captain cook death day, my loves 💖 My favorite part about today is remembering that in 1779, Native Hawaiians killed colonizer Captain Cook upon his 3rd intrusive visit to Hawai’i. Swoon. 😍 Keep your heart in the palms of your people. Love should feel like liberation. #HappyValentinesDay

Note: Collab with @ndn_emo_trash, we have a few different graphics with these tag lines related to moments of Native resistance. I agree with her, we are pretty funny 🤭📚💚

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Feb 11

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Feb 10

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#mood atm

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Feb 9

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A few more home library books, thanks to @pilsencommunitybooks 📚💚 looking forward to visiting the new spot this upcoming Friday! 🥳📚💚 #palestinalibre🇵🇸

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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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Feb 8

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Feb 8

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Few more images from conference last November. © musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, photo Julien Brachhammer

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Feb 7

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A few of Native cookbooks I talked about at last nights event. They ranged from 1964-1977 📚🌽🌶️🍄🌻 you can request to view these up in the reading rooms, Tuesdays to Saturdays 10-4pm (retrievals stop at 3pm) 

P.s. I was giving out a sample recipe from two books if you came to the event 💅🏽

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Feb 2

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LINK IN BIO: My very dear friend @namans026 will be teaching this class through the @newberrylibrary. Please consider enrolling and sharing. 

**This class also has a special 40% discount for Palestinian folks. Please email below for more information**

Email: adulteducation@newberry.org

CLASS DESCRIPTION:
What is the significance of Palestinian art and material histories? What are the themes that have shaped them over the last two centuries? How has Palestinian art and material art been utilized in resistance movements? In this class, we will look at the development of Palestinian material and visual culture and how it has, in turn, shaped the Palestinian people and the Palestinian cause. We will look at different materials, how they are consumed, and question the line between art and craft through the use of different symbols and themes in Palestinian art. Students will learn to closely read Palestinian art and to use digital databases.

All virtual classes are recorded and made available to participants registered in the class. These recordings are password-protected and available for up to two weeks after the class ends.

Nadirah Mansour is assistant curator of Islamic art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she cares for a 5000+ object collection spanning the entire globe. She writes widely on Palestinian culture and has taught Palestinian history for over a decade at both the university and community level.

MORE INFO: https://www.newberry.org/calendar/palestinian-art

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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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