American Indian Heritage Month

Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Film
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Jocelyn Ramirez moderated Community Healing: A Decolonized Approach from Radical Women of Color as part of The Ford’s Living Resistance festival. This panel discusses ways to heal minds, bodies, and spirits through alternative approaches with wellness practitioners Claudia Serrato, Adriana Alejandre, and Dania Cabello.
Event Date
Event Location

Online at the Ford
United States

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10340749
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Film
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The work of Diné artist and documentarian Pamela J. Peters addresses the complex relationship between Native Americans and the US government, exploring the history of coercive assimilation, displacement, and cultural erasure. In this program, Peters screens her short film Indian Alley (2021) to discuss the migration of American Indians to urban centers such as Los Angeles under the false promises of government relocation programs.
Event Date
Event Location

Online at the Getty Center
United States

Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
310.440.7300
Event ID
10345187
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The online archive encompasses over 2,000 primary and secondary sources. Centering American Indian voices and perspectives, The American Indian Experience engages students with the historical experiences and contemporary practices of more than 150 Native American tribes across North America.   This electronic resource includes biographies of famous political and social figures, primary and secondary sources, and includes speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, photographs, maps, and other images.
Event Date
Event Location

Los Angeles Library – Online
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849
Fee Required
Yes
Event Cost
Free with Library Card
Event ID
10340383
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Film
Music
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
You can stream films for free and on-demand on Kanopy and Hoopla and download e-books and audiobooks on Libby. The services have an extensive library of American Indian books, cinema, and documentaries that are free with your city of Los Angeles or Los Angeles County library card.

 

kanopy.com/en/lapl/category/67095
hoopladigital.com/collection/9967
libbylife.com/2023-11-06-books-to-read-during-native-american-heritage-month
Event Date
Event Location

Online
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10342900
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The American Indian Resource Center (AIRC) was established in 1979 by the Los Angeles County Library to address informational needs for and about American Indians in Los Angeles County. The AIRC collection is the largest public library collection of its kind in the U.S. AIRC is also an information center that announces events, classes, and conferences pertaining to American Indians—local, regional, and national—on topics ranging from health issues to education, legal issues, economic issues, politics, and culture.
Event Date
Event Location

Huntington Park Library
6518 Miles Ave.
Huntington Park, 90255
United States

Event Lat/Long
33.9803535, -118.2186682
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
323.583.1461
Event ID
10343266
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Native Land Digital is the largest free interactive map of Indigenous territories available online. It strives to create and foster conversations about the history of colonialism, Indigenous ways of knowing, and settler-Indigenous relations, through educational resources such as our map and Territory Acknowledgement Guide. We strive to go beyond old ways of talking about Indigenous people and to develop a platform where Indigenous communities can represent themselves and their histories on their own terms. In doing so, Native Land Digital creates spaces where non-Indigenous people can be invited and challenged to learn more about the lands they inhabit, the history of those lands, and how to actively be part of a better future going forward together.
Event Date
Event Location

Online
Online
Online, NY 10001
United States

Event Lat/Long
40.7136487, -74.0087126
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Contact Phone
(800) 805 5385
Event ID
10346678
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
The library has an archive of over 7,000 photographs representing the contemporary and historic diversity of families in Los Angeles. Images were chosen from family albums and copied in a project sponsored by Photo Friends, a library support group. They include daily life, social organizations, work, personal, and holiday celebrations. In addition to the images, there are oral histories about living in Southern California.
Event Date
Event Location

Los Angeles Library – Online
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10344483
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Celebrate Native Americans in LA’s film industry with author Angela Aleiss as she discusses her new book Hollywood’s Native Americans: Stories of Identity and Resistance.
Event Date
Event Location

Online – Los Angeles County Library
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10345919
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
Numerous Native American-related events have taken place at the Mark Taper Auditorium as part of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles’ ALOUD series. Explore the best of those conversations online.
Event Date
Event Location

Online at the Los Angeles Central Library
Los Angeles, CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
34.0522342, -118.2436849
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10342225
Event Main Image
Event Type
Culture & Community
Family Activity
Event Department
Cultural Affairs
Description
A video poem about a Navajo learning more about the traditional tribal people in Los Angeles known as the Tongva people. They are not gone, but very much alive all over Los Angeles.
Event Date
Event Location

Streaming
CA
United States

Event Lat/Long
36.778261, -119.4179324
Fee Required
No
Event Cost
Free
Event ID
10342194
Event Main Image