First Nations culture is living, vibrant, and evolving, and generations of Indigenous kids have grown up with pop culture creeping inexorably into our lives. From gaming to social media, pirate radio to garage bands, Star Trek to D&D, and missed connections at the pow wow, Indigenous culture is so much more than how it's usually portrayed. INDIGNERDS is here to celebrate those stories!

 

 

 

Jim Terry (Ho-Chunk) is a Chicago comic book artist whose memoir Come Home, Indio was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Jim recently was an artist-in-residence at the Newberry, and his new graphic novel, Paper Cuts, commissioned for Indigenous Chicago, reflects his personal journey through the library’s collections and its vast holdings in American Indian and Indigenous Studies.

 

 

 

 

This exhibition, drawn from the Newberry’s growing collections for American Indian and Indigenous Studies, shares four centuries of Indigenous creators, athletes, activists, and fans engaged with pop—from pamphlets to comic books, and from daguerreotypes to video games. This zine -companion to the show is 56 pages long.

 

 

 

 

 

CHICAGO INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY Saturday, April 26th, the Newberry Bookshop will be participating in Chicago Independent Bookstore Day for the 9th year. We are delighted to be part of the Chicagoland bookstore crawl! One fabulous day, 53 bookstores! We will have passports and a special custom sticker just for that day. We look forward to seeing book besties, old and new!

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