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Analú María López

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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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Early morning session with high schoolers to learn about the Wuj and related materials 📚🌽

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Apr 21

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Items I came across today while looking up some materials related to Native plants 🌱🌽 Wild rice is pretty amazing and so healthy, packed with loads of protein 🤤 just one cup of wild rice has about 24 grams of protein!

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REPOSTING FROM @zinemercado - The Newberry Library and ZINEmercado are pleased to bring back PLANTING SEEDS - an Indigenous Zine Fest, on Saturday, May 16, 2026 from 11AM to 3PM. This fest will feature #zines and prints by Indigenous and First Nations artists from around the globe. • Apply to vend at the fest via the link in bio or at www.newberry.org/calendar/zine-fest-2026• The Newberry Library is located at 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL. Keep an eye out for the artist list coming SOON! 📚😀 • Flier design by River Kerstetter/ @ri.iver • Photos by @oscararriola #PlantingSeeds #indigenouszinefest #ZineFest NewberryLibrary

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🌱📚🌱I’ll be speaking at this event on a panel from 3-4:30pm. I’ll be doing a talk called "Growing corn in the hood: Indigenous foodways in Chicago." Hope to see some of y’all there!🌱📚🌱

p.s. if you want to follow my annual gardening and growing of corn in the hood, follow @yolxochipan

RSVP: https://
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📚📚📚I would also add, not only do they not make efforts, but once they do, they speak over Native/Indigenous people as the “experts.” Further silencing communities lived experiences.

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📚Book rec of the week📚

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📚Book recommendation📚 I had the splendid pleasure of meeting Emil when they took an Indigenous mapping workshop I co-led a few years ago at the library.

Emil' Keme (aka Emilio del Valle Escalante) is an Indigenous K'iche' Maya scholar from Iximulew (Land of Corn, and the K'iche' name for Guatemala), and professor of English and Indigenous studies at Emory University. He is a first-generation college graduate and scholar. His teaching and research focus on contemporary Indigenous literatures and social movements, Central American-American literatures and cultures, and postcolonial and subaltern studies theory.

Keme is a co-founding member of the binational Maya anti-colonial collective, Community of Maya Studies, Ix'balamquej Junajpu Wunaq', and volunteers as a cultural advisor for the International Mayan League in Washington, D.C.

Keme is the author of Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya Word.
Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala (2021; Spanish, 2020 and 2022), which won Cuba's prestigious Casa de las Americas Literary Criticism Prize in 2020, and Maya Nationalisms and Postcolonial Challenges in Guatemala (2009; Spanish 2008). His current research focuses on Indigenous struggles for self-determination in various parts of Abiayala (the Indigenous ancestral name of the Americas). His work aims to highlight the potentialities of building trans-hemispheric Indigenous alliances by critically exploring the field of Indigenous studies, settler colonial borders, Indigenous forced migration, Indigenous approaches to environmental justice, and Indigenous women and LGBTQ2s+ rights.

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🌽📚If you’re around in May, I’ll be doing a talk called “Growing corn in the hood: Indigenous foodways in Chicago.” 🌽📚 RSVP: https://www.hullhousemuseum.org/programs-and-events-at-hullhouse/2026/5/1/symposium-solidarity-gardening

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If you’re in the area, come watch us nerd out on new acquisitions to the collections next month, April 15th!

Background cropped image: 20th century broadside
arguing for Home Rule in Hawaii in the wake of American Annexation and a new addition to the Hawaiian collections at the library

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New books in personal collection. Thanks @anticonquistacafe for the first title 💚📚💚

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I’m 44 today. I took the day off to hang with some of my favorite people 💚📚💚 enjoy our OOTD and the brother making me do a whiny dance for him to get in the frame 🤣 and as always, Palestine will be free 🪶💚🇵🇸

first 📷 taken by my love, @whirlpoolparty 🥰

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Mar 8

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

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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

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

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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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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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