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Tommy Orange weaves cultural and historical references throughout There There that compel us to follow the story beyond the book. This curated list, divided into three sections, will help you explore the ideas that inform and enrich the story, and to discover some of the other Native American authors and subjects found in the Library’s collections. Click on each section to expand the list and browse the titles.
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Ask a LibrarianThe Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht
by Bertolt Brecht |
This Land is Their Land
by David J. Silverman |
The World of Plymouth Plantation
by Carla Gardina Pestana |
The Name of War
by Jill Lepore |
Mayflower
by Nathaniel Philbrick |
We Are the Land |
California Through Native Eyes
by William J. Bauer, Jr. |
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
by Chip Colwell |
A Misplaced Massacre
by Ari Kelman |
Code Talker |
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States |
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People |
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee |
The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume One |
The Painted Drum |
Love Medicine |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
Full Metal Jacket |
Everybody's Autobiography |
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo |
The Revolt of the Cockroach People |
The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poemes en Prose |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
Smoke Signals |
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian |
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me |
Heart Berries |
The Life and Adventures of Joaquâin Murieta
by John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird) |
Interview with Tommy Orange, February 2021
Discusses music and ideas included in There There.
Powwows
Guilford Native American Association
American Indian Powwow
NC School of Science and Mathematics
Health and Welfare Issues
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
CDC
Native American Adoption
National Indian Child Welfare Association
Music & Artwork Included in There There
“Rhinestone Cowboy”
Album: Madvillainy
Artists: Madvillain, Rapper MF Doom, Producer Madlib
Tony Loneman’s first chapter, the line “got more soul than a sock with a hole,” comes from this song.
“There There”
Album: Hail to the Thief
Group: Radiohead
Dean Oxendine’s first chapter, he listens to this song.
“Electric Pow Wow Drum”
Group: A Tribe Called Red aka Halluci Nation
CBC Music Festival Full Concert
Edwin Black’s first chapter, he describes their blend of tradition and modernism as a “small kind of miracle.”
The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly
Artist: James Hampton
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Thomas Frank’s first chapter, at 16 he discovers James Hampton and the artist “would end up meaning everything to you.”
The Firekeeper’s Daughter |
Even as We Breathe |
Crooked Hallelujah |
Where the Dead Sit Talking |
The Only Good Indians |
Cherokee America |
Winter Counts |
Trail of Lightning |
Take Us to Your Chief |
Everyday is a Good Day |
Braiding Sweetgrass |
Our History is the Future |
Gathering Moss |
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes |
When My Brother was an Aztec |
Postcolonial Love Poem |
An American Sunrise |
Crazy Brave |
Abandon Me |
Mankiller |
Killers of the Flower Moon |