Imagine a Day Without Wikipedia–That Day is Tomorrow

Starting at Midnight (Eastern Standard Time) on January 18^th, Wikipedia, along with several other major internet sites, will suspend operations for 24 hours.  This action is being taken to protest SOPA/PIPA (Stop Online Piracy Act/Protect IP Act)  legislation that is under consideration in the U.S. Congress.  Supporters say that this legislation is designed to stop online piracy, but protestors fear that it could severely limit online freedom.

So, what can we do in the absence of Wikipedia?  The Washington Post has some great tips about how to perform research during the Wikipedia blackout (note their repeated suggestion to use a library!)

And, if you’re interested in finding out more about the proposed legislation and the controversy surrounding it, check out this Los Angeles Times article and the Wikimedia Foundation’s letter to the English Wikipedia Readers and Community.

Reference Resource of the Week

Amnesty International Report 2011

Need information on how specific governments uphold (or repress) specific human rights? Would you like to know which countries are parties to a specific human rights treaty? Check out this resource!

Did you know that…?

“In Chad, the recruitment and use of children by armed forces and groups continued and recruiters enjoyed total immunity.”

America’s Struggle for Civil Rights

 

“When you drink from the water, remember its source”

-        Chinese proverb

 

Recommended Readings

For January 2012

This month we celebrate MLK Jr. and other freedom  fighters, whose struggles made possible the many economic, political and social changes for a democratic society.

You’ll find these books and others titles on the Recommended Reading list Book Shelf and in the library collection.

E-BOOKS

 

Civil Rights in Wartime   ebrary Reader
                  Author: Sidh S.   Gohil, Neha Singh
                Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Original Publication Date: 12/2009
Subjects: Sikhs — Civil rights — United States.   Discrimination — Law and legislation — United States.   Minorities — Legal status, laws, etc. — United States.   Terrorism — Prevention — Law and legislation — United States.   September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.   Terrorism — United States — Prevention.
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Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom   ebrary Reader
Author: King, Richard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Original Publication Date: 04/1992
Subjects: African Americans — Civil rights.   African Americans — Civil rights — Moral and ethical aspects.   Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century.   Civil rights movements — Moral and ethical aspects — United States.
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Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965   ebrary Reader
Author: Houck, Davis W.   Dixon, David E.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Original Publication Date: 01/2009
Subjects: Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century — Sources.   Women civil rights workers — United States — History — 20th century — Sources.   African Americans — Civil rights — History — 20th century — Sources.   African American women civil rights workers — History — 20th century — Sources.   Women civil rights workers — United States — Biography.   African American women civil rights workers — Biography.   Women — United States — History — 20th century — Sources.   United States — Race relations — Sources.
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Seventh-Day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement   ebrary Reader
Author: London, Samuel G.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Original Publication Date: 10/2009
Subjects: Civil rights — Religious aspects — Christianity.   Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century.   Seventh-Day Adventists — Political activity.   Christianity and politics — Seventh-Day Adventists.   Seventh-Day Adventists — Doctrines.
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We Shall Overcome : A History of Civil Rights and the Law   ebrary Reader
Author: Tsesis, Alexander
Publisher: Yale University Press
Original Publication Date: 10/2008
Subjects: Civil rights — United States — History.
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Encyclopedia of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement   ebrary Reader
Author: Gutierrez, Margo   Gutierrez, Margo   Meier, Matt S.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Original Publication Date: 05/2000
Subjects: Mexican Americans — Civil rights — History — 20th century — Encyclopedias.   Civil rights movements — United States — History — 20th century — Encyclopedias.
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Major Civil Rights Events 1954-1968 — North America, United States, Map   ebrary Reader
Author: Maps.com
Publisher: Maps.com
Original Publication Date: 02/1999
Subjects: Civil rights — United States — Maps.   United States — Maps.
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Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission : Civil Rights and States’ Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Katagiri, Yasuhiro
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Original Publication Date: 11/2001
Subjects: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission — History.   African Americans — Civil rights — Mississippi — History — 20th century.   African Americans — Segregation — Mississippi — History — 20th century.   States’ rights (American politics) — History — 20th century.   Civil rights movements — Mississippi — History — 20th century.   Mississippi — Politics and government — 1951-   Mississippi — Race relations.
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Nixon’s Civil Rights : Politics, Principle, and Policy   ebrary Reader
Author: Kotlowski, Dean J.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Original Publication Date: 2001
Subjects: Civil rights — United States — History — 20th century.   Affirmative action programs — Government policy — United States — History — 20th century.   United States — Politics and government — 1969-1974.
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Daisy Bates : Civil Rights Crusader from Arkansas   ebrary Reader
Author: Stockley, Grif
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Original Publication Date: 10/2005
Subjects: Bates, Daisy.   Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)   African American women civil rights workers — Arkansas — Little Rock — Biography.   African Americans — Arkansas — Little Rock — Biography.   Civil rights workers — Arkansas — Little Rock — Biography.   Civil rights movements — Arkansas — Little Rock — History.   School integration — Arkansas — Little Rock — History.   Little Rock (Ark.) — Biography.   Little Rock (Ark.) — Race relations.   Arkansas — Race relations.
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Civil Justice in the Age of Human Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Jacob, Joseph M.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Original Publication Date: 02/2007
Subjects: Civil procedure — Great Britain.   Civil rights — Great Britain.   Due process of law — Great Britain.
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Divine Agitators : The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi   ebrary Reader
Author: Newman, Mark F.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Original Publication Date: 01/2004
Subjects: Delta Ministry.   Civil rights movements — Mississippi — History — 20th century.   Civil rights — Religious aspects — Christianity.   African Americans — Civil rights — Mississippi.   Mississippi — Race relations — History — 20th century.
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Betrayal : How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era   ebrary Reader
Author: Baker, Houston A.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Original Publication Date: 03/2010
Subjects: African American intellectuals — Political activity.   African Americans — Civil rights.   Civil rights movements — United States.
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Covering : The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Yoshino, Kenji
Publisher: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
Original Publication Date: 01/2006
Subjects: Japanese American lawyers — United States — Biography.   Yoshino, Kenji.   Gay lawyers — United States — Biography.   Gay rights — United States.   Civil rights — United States.   Assimilation (Sociology)
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Going South : Jewish Women in the Civil Rights Movement   ebrary Reader
Author: Schultz, Debra L.
Publisher: NYU Press
Original Publication Date: 01/2001
Subjects: African Americans — Civil rights — Southern States — History — 20th century.   Jewish women — United States — Political activity — History — 20th century.   Jewish women — United States — Biography.   Women civil rights workers — Southern States — Biography.   African Americans — Relations with Jews.   Civil rights movements — Southern States — History — 20th century.   Oral history.   Southern States — Race relations.
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Passion for Justice : J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Yarbrough, Tinsley E.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Original Publication Date: 11/1987
Subjects: Waring, Julius Waties, — 1880-1968.   United States. — District Court (South Carolina : Eastern District)   Judges — United States — Biography.   Civil rights — United States.
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Fight Against Fear : Southern Jews and Black Civil Rights   ebrary Reader
Author: Webb, Clive
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Original Publication Date: 04/2001
Subjects: African Americans — Southern States — Relations with Jews.   Jews — Southern States — History — 20th century.   African Americans — Civil rights — Southern States — History — 20th century.   African Americans — Segregation — Southern States — History — 20th century.   Civil rights movements — Southern States — History — 20th century.   Southern States — Race relations.   Southern States — Ethnic relations.
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Freedom Facts and Firsts : 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience   ebrary Reader
Author: Smith, Jessie Carney   Wynn, Linda T.
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Original Publication Date: 01/2009
Subjects: African Americans — Civil rights — History.   Civil rights workers — United States — Biography.   African American civil rights workers — Biography.   African Americans — Biography.   United States — Race relations — History.
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BOOKS  

1. Encyclopedia of African-American civil rights : from emancipation to the present / edited by Charles D. Lowery and John F. Marszalek ; foreword by David J. Garrow.

1992

305.896 E56

Available, Reference Collection, Plaza East

1. Encyclopedia of American social movements / edited by Immanuel Ness ; foreword by Stephen Eric Bronner and Frances Fox Piven.

2004

301.0973 E56am 2004

Multiple items available, Reference Collection, Plaza East

1. Civil Rights History Project Act of 2008 [electronic resource] : report (to accompany H.R. 998) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office).

United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration.

2008

Y 1.1/8:110-848

Available, Government Documents Online

1. I have a dream : writings and speeches that changed the world / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; foreword by Coretta Scott King ; edited by James Melvin Washington.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

1992

323.1196073 K53i 1992

Available, 3rd floor, West

5.   Born in Seattle : the campaign for Japanese American redress / Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro.

Shimabukuro, Robert Sadamu.

2001

940.547273 S556b 2001

Available, 4th floor, East

1. Law, bureaucracy, and politics : the implementation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / Augustus J. Jones Jr.

Jones, Augustus J.

1982

342.73 J76L

Available, 3rd floor, West

1. Freedom now! The civil-rights struggle in America. Edited by Alan F. Westin.

Westin, Alan F.

1964

301.451 W529f

Available, 3rd floor, West

1. Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 / Taylor Branch.

Branch, Taylor.

1989

973.0496 B816p 1989

Available, 4th floor, East

1. How did this happen here? : Japanese internment camps / Leni Donlan.

Donlan, Leni.

2008

940.547273 D684h 2008

Available, New Readers Collection, Room 419

Videos 

Who Killed Vincent Chin? [videorecording] / a production of Film News Now Foundation & WTVS                          Detroit ; producer, Renee Tajima ; director, Christine Choy.

1988

305.8951 W628 1988

Of civil wrongs and rights [videorecording] : the Fred Korematsu Story / a film by Eric Paul Fornier.

2000

940.5472 O31 2000

Eyes on the prize : America’s civil rights years. Mississippi : is this America? [videorecording] / Blackside, Inc.

1986

323.4 E97 1986

Eyes on the prize, II. Back to the movement, 1979-1983 [videorecording] : America at the racial crossroads / Blackside, Inc. ; produced, directed and written by Madison Davis Lacy, James A. DeVinney.

1990

323.4 E97 1990

Yuri Kochiyama [videorecording] : a passion for justice / YK Project ; produced and directed by Patricia Saunders and Rea Tajiri.

2006

323.092 K76 1993

Of civil wrongs and rights [videorecording] : the Fred Korematsu Story / a film by Eric Paul Fornier.

2000

940.5472 O31 2000

 

Websites

The King Center

http://www.thekingcenter.org/

 

SEATTLE CIVIL RIGHTS AND LABOR HISTORY PROJECT

http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/

 

National Civil Rights Museum

http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/

 

 International Civil Rights Center and Museum

http://www.sitinmovement.org/

 

Museum of Tolerance

http://www.museumoftolerancenewyork.com

 

  National Women’s History Museum

http://www.nwhm.org/

 

Japanese American Museum

http://www.janm.org/

 

Chinese American Museum

http://www.camla.org/

 

National Museum of the American Indian

http://www.nmai.si.edu/

 

Reference Resource of the Week

Holidays, festivals, and celebrations of the world dictionary

Need information on specific holiday, festival, celebration, commemoration, holy day, feast, and fast?  Want to learn about Calendar systems around the world: Julian, Gregorian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Mayan, and Aztec?  Check out this resource!

Did you know that…?

“Aarhus Festival Week is the first Saturday in September for nine days. Since 1965 the Danish city of Aarhus has been the site of a nine-day festival whose cultural and sporting events run the gamut from opera to fishing competitions.”

Send a text message!

Need to remember a title, call number, and location of a book or other item in the Highline Library Catalog? Text it to your phone!

Click on “Text me this call number”, enter your phone number, select your phone provider from the drop-down list, then click “Send text” to send the information to your phone!

 

Reference Resource of the Week

 The Folklore of World Holidays

Need information on world holidays: Stir-Up Sunday, Advent Season, Bear Festival, Odo, Hanukkah, St. Barbara’s day, St. Nicholas Day, Materice, Christmas, New Year’s Day… ? Want to learn about the folklore, foods,traditions, habits, celebrations and festivals of holidays in different countries?  Check out this resource!

Did you know that…?

 “On the first Sunday in Advent Season in Sweden, all Swedish families take out a special candlestick… On the second Sunday, both the first candle and the next are lit for a while: and so on until, on the Fourth Sunday, the candles look like a small row of organ pipes. Their four-fold light means that Christmas is almost here.”

Reference Resource of the Week

Census Atlas of the United States: Census 2000 Special Reports

The United States Census is one of our nation’s most valuable sources of information.  However, that wealth of information can be challenging to interpret and put into context.  Not to worry!  The Census Atlas of the United States is here to help!  Covering the main areas of the census like education, work, and housing, the Atlas presents data in beautiful, full-color maps to show changes, decade by decade, in a way that’s easy to understand and downright exciting!

Did you know that…?

College completion has increased by nearly 20%  nationwide since 1950?  Our geographic area has some of the highest college completion rates in the country!  Encouraging, right?

Reference Resource of the Week

Gestures: The DO’s and TABOOs of Body Language Around the World

Heading to a foreign country and wondering how to hail a cab and shake a hand like you were born there?  Want to know how to tell someone to buzz off without starting a fight in the streets?  If you want to communicate like a pro no matter who you’re talking to, check out this resource!  Gestures gives general background information on how body languages differ from culture to culture, and then gives detailed notes country by country.  Fascinating reading!

Did you know that…?

“In the ‘down under’ country, posing the thumbs-up gesture might just get you ‘down and out.’ In Australia flashing the upright thumb and then making a slight jerk upward is generally used to silently signal”…something VERY rude!

Pilgrims, American Indians and Thanksgiving Recommended Reading for November 2011

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.

~Native American Saying

The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts…

nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.

~ H. W. Westermayer

Let us remember that, as much has been given us,

much will be expected from us,

and that true homage comes from the heart

as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Books

               

The encyclopedia of Native American religions / Arlene Hirschfelder and Paulette Molin.

299.703 H669e 1992

Art of the American Indian frontier : the Chandler-Pohrt Collection / David W. Penney ; with essays by Richard A. Pohrt, Milford G. Chandler, and George P. Horse Capture.
704.0397073074 P413 1992

Northwest Coast Native and Native-style art : a guidebook for western Washington / Lloyd J. Averill, Daphne K. Morris.

709.797 A952n 1995

Columbia River basketry : gift of the ancestors, gift of the earth / Mary Dodds Schlick.

746.412089974 S344c 1994

Language of the robe : American Indian trade blankets / Robert W. Kapoun.

746.9 K17L 1992

Dwellers at the source : Southwestern Indian photographs of A.C. Vroman, 1895-1904.

779.997900497 V868d 1987

American Indian lacrosse : little brother of war / Thomas Vennum, Jr.

796.347 V464 1994

In mad love and war/ Joy Harjo

811 H282i 1990

Journey to the New World : the diary of Remember Patience Whipple / by Kathryn Lasky. 1996

813.54 L345j 1996

Growing up ethnic in America : contemporary fiction about learning to be American / edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan. 1999

813.5408 G884 1999

Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim boy / by Ann Rinaldi.2000

813.6 R578j 2000

500 nations : an illustrated history of North American Indians / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

970.00497 J83 1994

Native America : portrait of the peoples / [edited by] Duane Champagne ; foreword by Dennis Banks.

970.00497 N2781 1994

The founders of America : how Indians discovered the land, pioneered in it, and created great classical civilizations; how they were plunged into a dark age by invasion and conquest, and how they are reviving / Francis Jennings ; maps by Tom Willcockson.

970.00497 J54 1994

In the hands of the Great Spirit : the 20,000-year history of American Indians / Jake Page.

970.00497 P132i 2004

Buffalo hearts; a native American’s view of his culture, religion and history / Sun Bear.

973.00497 S957b 1991

The Scratch of a pen: 1763 and the transformation of North America / Colin G. Galloway.

973.26 C163s 2006

Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war / Nathaniel Philbrick. 2006

973.22 P545m 2006

Mayflower and the pilgrims’ new world / Nathaniel Philbrick.2008

973.22 P545m 2008

Mayflower papers : selected writings of colonial New England / William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Church, and others ; edited with an introduction and notes by Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick.2007

973.22 P545mb 2007

Of Plymouth Plantation. Selected and edited, with an introduction by Harvey Wish.1962

974.4 B799o

Pilgrims and Puritans, 1620-1676 / Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier.1998

974.4 C699p 1998

Saints and strangers, being the lives of the Pilgrim fathers & their families, with their friends & foes; & an account of their posthumous wanderings in limbo, their final resurrection & rise to glory, & the strange pilgrimages of Plymouth rock. 1945

974.4 W735s

Great & godly adventure : the Pilgrims & the myth of the first Thanksgiving / Godfrey Hodgson. 2006

974.402 H691g 2006

Mayflower destiny / Cyril Leek Marshall. 1975

974.402 M367m

Mayflower Compact / Judith Lloyd Yero.  2004

974.402 Y47m 2004

Buckskin and blanket days: memoirs of a friend of the Indians written in 1905 / Thomas Henry Tibbles

978.020922T552b 1958

Americas [videorecording] / a production of JVC ; producer, Ichikawa Katsumori ; directors, Nakagawa Kunihiko, Ichihashi Yuji. 1990

781.620078 J98

Desperate crossing [videorecording] : the untold story of the Mayflower / Lone Wolf Documentary Group ; produced by Lisa Wolfinger ; writer, Rocky Collins ; directed by Lisa Wolfinger. 2007

974.402 D468 2006

500 nations. [Volume] 1, The ancestors [videorecording] / a Tig Productions/RCS Video Production in association with Majestic Films and Television International ; written by Jack Leustig … [et al.] ; produced by Roberta Grossman ; produced and directed 1995

970.00497 F565 1995

500 nations. [Volume] 4, Invasion of the coast [videorecording] / a Tig Productions/RCS Video Production in association with Majestic Films and Television International ; a Jack Leustig film. 1995

970.00497 F565 1995

Far West [videorecording] : generous spirit / TBS ; Northeast director, John Borden ; Far West director, Phil Lucas ; producers, Patricia Foulkrod, Michael Grant ; writers, Hanay Geiogamah, Michael Grant. 1994

970.00497 N278 1994

Cherokee, the trail of tears [videorecording] / a presentation of Discovery Networks and 9K*USA-TV.

975.0049755 H847 1993

Seminole, the unconquered [videorecording] / a co-production of Discovery Networks and KUSA-TV ; producer/director, Chris Wheeler ; producers, Sonny Hutchinson, Katherine Carpenter.

975.9004973. H847 1993

Five tribes, as long as the grass shall grow [videorecording] / a co-production of Discovery Networks and KUSA-TV. 1993

976.600497 H847 1993

Cheyenne, the only good Indian is a dead Indian [videorecording] / a co-production of Discovery Networks and KUSA-TV ; producer/director, Chris Wheeler ; producer, Sonny Hutchinson.

978.004973 H847 1993

Dakota, let them eat grass [videorecording] / a co- production of Discovery Networks and KUSA-TV.

978.0049752 H847 1993

Apache: always the enemy [videorecording] / a presentation of Discovery Networks and 9K*USA-TV ; produced by Sonny Hutchison & Katherine Carpenter ; directed by Chris Wheeler.

979.004972 H847 1993

Inca [videorecording] : secrets of the ancestors / Time-Life Video and Television presents ; produced, directed & written by Tom Simon.

985.015 I36 1995

Desperate Crossing [electronic resource (video)] : Untold Story of the Mayflower / Arts and Entertainment Network. 2011

History of the American Indians [electronic resource] / by James Adair ; edited and with an introduction and annotations by Kathryn E. Holland Braund. 2005

973.2/5

Memory’s nation [electronic resource] : the place of Plymouth Rock / John Seelye. 1998

974.4/82

  Native American Tribalism : Indian Survivals and Renewals (ebrary Reader) McNickle, D’Arcy . 1993

North American Indians. (Volume 1) / [electronic resource] / George Catlin. 2000

 On Plymouth Rock ( ebrary Reader)  Drake, Samuel A.  2001

Our Stories Remember : American Indian History, Culture, and Values Through Storytelling (ebrary Reader) Bruchac, Joseph 2003

Plymouth [electronic resource] 1997

Plymouth Port of Call  (ebrary Reader) Maps.com  1997

Religion, Law & the Land : Native Americans & the Judicial Interpretation of Sacred Land ( ebrary Reader) Brown, Brian E. 1999

Removals [electronic resource] : nineteenth-century American literature and the politics of Indian affairs / Lucy Maddox.

Repatriation reader [electronic resource] : who owns American Indian remains?/ edited by Devon A. Mihesuah.

Revisiting New England : The New Regionalism : Thanksgiving : The Biography of an American Holiday, (ebrary Reader) Baker, James W. 2009

Teaching Young Children About Native Americans / Debbie Reese. ERIC Document ED394744 [click on ED link to obtain PDF online]

Thanksgiving [electronic resource] : the biography of an American holiday / James W. Baker ; foreword by Peter J. Gomes. 2009

394.264909

That the People Might Live : Native American Literatures and Native American Community (ebrary Reader ) Weaver, Jace  1997

The people and the word [electronic resource] : reading native nonfiction/ Robert Warri

Website

 

American Indian Heritage Foundation

It is one of the largest advocacy groups for American Indian interests.

Best-Ever Thanksgiving

It has a collection of recipes and craft

and activity ideas for children related to

the celebration of Thanksgiving.

Colonists and Native Americans This Website offers historical documents.

Encyclopedia of North American Indians

This 1996 encyclopedia presents a collection of

subjects relating to American Indians.


Explore National American Indian Heritage Month

It is the National Park Service’s gateway to historic sites.

MayflowerHistory.com 

This site offers lots of information not only about the Mayflower,but also

such topics as the first Thanksgiving.

National Congress of American Indians

The National Congress of American Indians was founded in 1944.

Native American Indian Heritage Month

The US Department of Defense pays tribute to Indian military people.


Native American History Month

This privately-produced site includes an apparently

authoritative history of the celebration.

Pilgrim Hall Museum: The Pilgrim Story

This site combines images of items from the museum

with well-documented historical information to illuminate

the Plymouth Colony and the Wampanoag Nation.

Plymouth Plantation

This living history center in Plymouth, Massachusetts,re-creates a 1627 Pilgrim village. Plymouth Colony Archive Project It is “A collection of searchable texts, including court records, colony laws, seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, probate inventories, [and] wills.” Thanksgiving Cards. This website provides Happy Thanksgiving (122 Cards). Thanksgiving in North America: From Local Harvests to National Holiday This site traces the history of Thanksgiving in North America and the U.S. Thanksgiving Holiday Guide Highlights of this collection of features on Thanksgiving cooking. The Mayflower Society: General Society of Mayflower Descendants Hereditary organization was founded “more than one hundred years ago,by a group of descendants of the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620.

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Documentary on the Disability Rights Movement

LIVES WORTH LIVING PREMIERES ON THE PBS SERIES INDEPENDENT LENS 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2011 AT 10 PM

Powerful documentary chronicles the History of America’s Disability Rights Movement.

For more information about the film and the issues involved go to:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/lives-worth-living/