Informed & Inspired A MONTHLY UPDATE FOR THE LIBRARY’S MOST AWESOME ADVOCATES: KIDS!
october 2025
It’s Native American Heritage Month! In November, we honor the contributions, achievements, and sacrifices of the original inhabitants of the United States and their descendants. The website learningforjustice.org explains Native American Heritage Month this way: “Native American Heritage Month provides an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of Native cultures and communities. To honor Native peoples, we uplift their honest histories, significant contributions, and contemporary experiences.” The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs website states: “This November and every month, we celebrate the culture and heritage of these remarkable Americans who deeply enrich the quality and character of our Nation. We celebrate Indian Country with its remarkable diversity of American Indian and Alaska Native cultures and peoples while remembering and honoring our veterans who have sacrificed so much to defend our Nation.” You can celebrate by finding out about diverse Native American traditions and by seeking out stories and histories of Indigenous and native people. Keep reading to learn more! Note: You’ll see the words indigenous and native in these pages. Both words refer to people who lived on this land before colonists arrived from Europe. They also refer to the descendants of these first Americans.