Re: [LM_NET] Native American book advice

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@FWCDS.ORG>]

Oliver LaFarge also wrote the fictional book entitled "Laughing Boy".  Based upon 
his credentials and the fact that your book (A Pictorial History of American 
Indians) contains photographs of unique tribes during that time period, I would 
probably keep the book.   Oliver LaFarge appears to have been a significant 
anthropologist who studied and wrote about Native Americans at a time when there 
was little available to "white America."

I think since your book is a "pictorial history" it may be a good book to keep in 
your collection, despite its age.  I would continue to check information about the 
research and perceptions of LaFarge by the Native American culture and retain the 
book, if not only for useful research of a comparison of good / bad materials that 
can be found in print materials relating to various cultures.

At this time, however, I think your book is a keeper.  However, you might want to 
contact one professor that I know has done a lot of research on the Native American 
culture and their perception of the literature written about them.  She is Dr. 
Lotsee Patterson at the University of Oklahoma.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/P/Lotsee.F.Patterson-1/home.html

(She was my advisor during my MLIS program and is very knowledgeable about the 
literature and what libraries / librarians should do with these types of materials.)

In addition, here are some sites that detail LaFarge's work:

http://oncampus.richmond.edu/faculty/ASAIL/SAILns/102.html

http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/html/wl0567.html

http://www2.tcu.edu/depts/prs/amwest/pdf/wl0567.pdf


Good Luck!

~Shonda Brisco


Shonda Brisco, MLIS
US / Technology Librarian
Fort Worth Country Day School
Fort Worth, TX
sbrisco@fwcds.org

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