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Native American Heritage Month Reading List

November is Native American Heritage Month. Help us celebrate by reading some of the following books! All are either about Native American culture or were written by Native American authors. This is in no way an exhaustive list and we encourage you to search more titles on your own!

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus By: Charles C. Mann
 American Indians’ Kitchen-Table Stories By: Keith Cunningham
 The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven By: Sherman Alexie
 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian By: Sherman Alexie
 Indians of Southern Maryland By: Rebecca Seib and Helen Rountree
 Four Souls By: Louise Erdrich

Email us at volunteering@smcm.edu if you are particularly interested in any of these books and/or would like to have a book club discussion about them.

 

Happy reading!

Food Recovery Network at SMCM

Get involved with the Food Recovery Network at SMCM Network to fight food waste and hunger! By recovering perishable food that would otherwise go to waste from campus, we can donate it to those in the community who need it the most via local food banks and soup kitchens.

We need volunteers every Friday to help transport the food from the Great Room to our local community partner.

Visit The Food Recovery Network’s website to learn more about what colleges across the country are doing to eliminate food waste.

Sign up here to get involved at St. Mary’s!

 

Sponsored by The Sustainability Office and Service and Social Change.

Hunger and Homelessness Week

Join the Office of Student Activities in a series of on-campus events November 16-22 to raise awareness of issues surrounding hunger and homelessness in America. Topics will range from collegiate homelessness to food deserts to how future educators can work with homeless students. A more detailed schedule of events will be forthcoming.

 

Please contact the Office of Student Activities if you would like more information or would like to be involved!

Recycle Bin Painting Today

Come and join the sustainability team in painting the recycling containers a wonderful shade of blue Today, Sept. 26th at 2:30pm. We will be meeting in front of the White House.

Ask your professors if this will qualify for service hours or a 5th hour activity.