Recovering Native Identity: Developing Readers' Advisory Services for Non‐Reservation Native Americans

Abstract

Native peoples living within their cultures find themselves the focus of increased attention and are renewing their own ties in a cultural renaissance. Non‐Natives are becoming more intrigued with both scholarly and popular interpretations of some aspects of Native cultures. Those Native Americans living outside the culture are trying, in varying degrees, to recover old ways, thus attempting to reverse generations of assimilation. It is with the latter group that this article is concerned: the non affiliated Native Americans who are intellectually and/or spiritually as well as physically removed from traditional teachings. What kinds of assistance can libraries provide to Native Americans wishing to reclaim their cultural legacy?

Citation

Roy, L. (1993), "Recovering Native Identity: Developing Readers' Advisory Services for Non‐Reservation Native Americans", Collection Building, Vol. 12 No. 3/4, pp. 73-77. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023347