Chicago-White Cedar Room-Community Library & Cultural Media Center

Chicago-White Cedar Room-Community Library & Cultural Media Center Chicago American Indian Community in Action! The Making of the White Cedar Room, getting to know the new multimedia library

The White Cedar Room will be a multimedia resource center for Chicago families to research contemporary Native culture. It will also beopen to members of the Native American Chicago community, Kateri Center constituents as well as the
public in general. The White Cedar Room is named for Grandma Peggy
Desjarlait (White Cedar), a respected member of the Native American community in Chicago and one

of the founders of the Anawim Center, which is now the Kateri
Center. During the summer of 2011 local tradesmen donated their equipment, talents and time to remodel the basement space of the Kateri Center at 3938 North
Leavitt. Grant funding was secured to support their work and currently, the ceiling has been lifted, redone and painted and the room is ready for the next phase of development. In addition to finishing the room, the next steps are to develop a White Cedar Room Advisory Board, which will be made up of experts in the areas of film, literacy, media, art, education, religious studies and librarysciences. Also, to build the library database that will be accessible online, creating contracted positions that will promote career pathways in a variety of fields and to continue literary activities, which include the Chi-noodin Writing Group, public readings, book and media clubs, as well as language and literacy programs

01/14/2015
Save the date! On Oct 13th, you won't want to miss Charlene Teters!!
10/07/2014

Save the date! On Oct 13th, you won't want to miss Charlene Teters!!

08/14/2014

This is last minute, but if anyone is interested call our office 773-534-2735 or email [email protected]

1st Annual St. Kateri Powwow Oct. 19, 2013 at Bevin Hall. Stop by Kateri Center to pick up the flyer or join us today ...
09/26/2013

1st Annual St. Kateri Powwow Oct. 19, 2013 at Bevin Hall. Stop by Kateri Center to pick up the flyer or join us today for Senior & Community luncheon!

06/16/2012

Join the conversation! Several book club will form out of the WCR this summer!

Sign up for the following clubs!
- Conquest by Andrea Smith
-The Assassination of Hole in the Day by Anton Treuer

Also, T7 is looking for parents to review two books over the summer . The book are, "Ease the Teasing" along side, "Everything You Want to Know about Indians" this book will be reviewed by several culturally responsive teachers as well, and a focus group will form. This will lead to the development of several publications for teachers.

Great additions to the WCR collection!
06/16/2012

Great additions to the WCR collection!

Another great read!
06/14/2012

Another great read!

On June 27, 1868, Hole in the Day (Bagonegiizhig) the Younger left Crow Wing, Minnesota, for Washington, DC, to fight the planned removal of the Mississippi Ojibwe to a reservation at White Earth. Several miles from his home, the self-styled leader of all the Ojibwe was stopped by at leas...

More!
06/14/2012

More!

“I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, ‘Where is your tomahawk?’ I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, ‘You have the most beautiful red skin.’ I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, ‘Y...

Just in David Treuer's newest book! Rez Life join the White Cedar room book club! Come and read in the court yard gard...
06/14/2012

Just in David Treuer's newest book! Rez Life join the White Cedar room book club! Come and read in the court yard
garden!

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life , his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist’s storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtl...

B/W- Photo at the White Cedar Room
06/14/2012

B/W- Photo at the White Cedar Room

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