Cooking with the Library

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Native American Heritage Day is November 27 2020

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month

Reading Lists

• Indigenous People of Oregon: Now and Then
• New Books by Indigenous Authors 
• Indigenous Peoples Day Reading List

President Calvin Coolidge with Native delegation, 1925. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

National Museum of the American Indian

Resources

Do American Indians celebrate Thanksgiving?

American Indian Perspectives on Thanksgiving

MORE

National Geographic Kids - Native Americans - kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/native-americans/   Pre K - 6

National Museum of the American Indian - Native Knowledge 360 Education Initiative - https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/   K - 12

National Geographic Society Newsroom - Indigenous Peoples - blog.nationalgeographic.org/tag/indigenous-peoples/  Grades 6 - 12

OPB - Native American Heritage Collection - opb.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/NativeAmericanHeritage/ K-12

United Nations - Indigenous Peoples - www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/about-us.html   Grades 9 - 12

Indigenous Picture Book Read Along - Find the link here  Pre K to 3

Thanksgiving with CreativeBug

Did you know you can log-in to CreativeBug with your library card? 

We have collected some of our favorite, festive classes here! If you are posting your creations on social media, we would love to see them. Tag us in your posts  

Watercolor Cookies.

Basics about using paints on your bakes.

Homemade Marshmallows

This holiday season, forego the store-bought marshmallows and whip up a batch of these chunky, light, and flavorful treats. Not only are they the perfect topper for your mug of cocoa, but they also toast up perfectly over an open flame.

Hand Pies

Sew a Pie Carrier 

Make easy work of transporting your freshly baked pie with this simply stitched pie carrier. Sewist-with-a-sweet-tooth Liana Allday shows how two pieces of cotton fabric plus handy cotton webbing straps quickly come together to make a classy bag to tote your torte. 

Thirty Days of Gratitude

In this 30-day creativity series, the staff at Creativebug shares favorite ways of expressing gratitude, helping our community, loving our neighbors, and honoring past, present, and future family traditions – all through crafting!

How to Make Candy Filigree

Personalize your sweet treats with edible candy cake toppers. 

Perfect and Proper Place setting

Courtney shows how to design the perfect (and proper) place setting.