Native American Heritage Month

Discover on this page Baker Library resources with a connection to Native American culture and identity. Want to learn more about certain materials? Contact infoservices@hbs.edu

A banner that says "Native American Heritage Month" with the bell tower of Baker Library. Additional text says "Informed Leaders Start Here".

QUICK LIBRARY RESOURCES

Use Statista's Consumer Insights tool to navigate consumer attitudes and behavior for American Indians and Alaskan Natives
Research startups in Crunchbase (in-library only) that are lead or founded by American Indians and Alaskan Natives
Explore non-profit organizations via GuideStar Pro that list indigenous peoples as populations that they serve
Read articles from the Journal of Indigenous Business and Public Administration
Learn more about the Business Enterprises Toolbox from the Harvard Kennedy School's Project on Indigenous Governance and Development.

SELECT TITLES ON NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE

Baker and Harvard Libraries have a variety of diverse titles. The inclusion of these works in our collections is closely tied to principles of equity, inclusion, belonging, and anti-racism.

Four book covers and titles with a connection to Native Americans

Use this interactive visualization of Baker and Harvard Library materials to browse select resources. Click on a book cover to request—or learn more about—the item via the library catalog, HOLLIS.

CONTEMPORARY ART AT HBS

The HBS Art Collection & Program consists of over 1,000 original works and serves as a key teaching and learning resource for the HBS community.

SELECTED WORKS OF ART IN CONNECTION WITH NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH

A Spoon Is, 2022 by Marie Watt (Seneca Nation) — Top

Marie Watt, A Spoon Is, 2022, Photogravure, direct gravure, and soft ground etching, printed with Gampi chine collé on white wove paper. 19 1/2 x 25 in., Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2023.4 © Marie Watt

Riverside Cahokia, 2023 by Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation) — Bottom

Sky Hopinka, Riverside Cahokia, 2023, Unique inkjet with hand scratched text. 40 x 40 in., Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2023.8

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES

Special Collections and Archives collects and makes available the records of business dating from the 14th century to the present and the records of the Harvard Business School since its founding in 1908.

SEEN AND UNSEEN: Representations of Native Americans in Art, Advertising, and Commerce

This web resource was created in connection with an exhibition curated by Kabl Wilkerson (Citizen Potawatomi Nation and PhD Student, Department of History, Harvard University) that was on view at Baker Library from November 2022-February 2023. The exhibition Seen and Unseen explored representations of Native Americans in the popular imagination through a selection of advertising trade cards, currency, illustrations, and sculpture from Baker Library Special Collections and the HBS Art and Artifacts Collection. Seen and Unseen looks at how companies, advertisers, and artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries used images of “the Indian” to promote the railroad, market specific messages, or sell a range of products that included coffee and “medicinal” remedies.

Frontispiece from Henry Villard photograph album, 1883. Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School, olvgroup12715.

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