Join the Sioux City Public Library for pop culture trivia! Win Sioux City Reads themed books for prizes! Bring a buddy and play as a team or join up with some new friends at the event!

While you are there, get to know some of your friendly Library staff and have your Library questions answered.

This event is free and open to the public.

Trudy will discuss healing and getting in touch with our authentic selves; what that looks like, what that feels like and the value of such from the Native American perspective. Trudy has spent 25+ years in the psychotherapy/counseling field. Currently in private practice as a licensed mental health clinician she combines psychological counseling with spiritual practices assisting clients in their search for meaning, purpose and direction in their lives. Trudy has developed out-patient treatment programs specifically designed to meet the needs of the Native American population. She has also facilitated counseling in school systems and domestic violence programs.

Join fellow Sioux City readers as they discuss the 2023 Sioux City Reads title, ‘Calling For a Blanket Dance’ by Oscar Hokeah. This book discussion is free and open to the public.

Click here to find a copy of the book at the Library

For more information about Sioux City Reads:

https://www.siouxcitylibrary.org/siouxcityreads/

Join the Sioux City Public Library for a free film screening!

Written to raise awareness of murdered and abused indigenous women, this film follows the story of an FBI agent and US Fish and Wildlife tracker trying to solve a murder on a reservation in Wyoming. For more information, visit any Sioux City Public Library location or call 712-255-2933 ext. 2221.

Rated R

Runtime: 107 minutes

Join the Sioux City Public Library Director, Helen Rigdon, and Reader Services Specialist Librarian, Michael Maxwell, as they discuss the 2023 Sioux City Reads book: Calling For a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah. This discussion is FREE and open to the public and will take place over Zoom.

Get Registered (the Zoom link will be sent the day before the event):

https://siouxcitylibrary.libcal.com/event/10201271

Find Calling For a Blanket Dance in the Library Catalog:

https://bit.ly/3GEDzLd

Join in a Virtual Author Talk on January 19 with critically-acclaimed novelist and 2023 Sioux City Reads book author, Oscar Hokeah! This online event is presented in partnership with the National Willa Cather Center. ‘Calling for a Blanket Dance’ has been described as a “stunning” example of “honest storytelling,” and it has been longlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.

Get registered here for the Zoom event: https://bit.ly/3w1GbOk

Join the Sioux City Public Library for a screening of the PBS documentary, “The Warrior Tradition” as part of the Sioux City Reads program. Learn about the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view – stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.

2023 Sioux City Reads book nominee Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah is an honest, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel. This deeply engaging debut novel is the story of a young Native American man discovering strength in his familial identity and finding his way home. 

“Hokeah skillfully recreates the years leading up to and following Ever’s birth, capturing the traumas and complexities that shaped him into who he is and may determine who he becomes.” – TIME 

“Told from a variety of voices, this story is one of love, loss, growth, tradition and evolution. Not to be missed.”- Ms. Magazine 

Through November 21, cast your vote for this book or one of the other exciting nominees to help select the 2023 Sioux City Reads title at SiouxCityLibrary.org/siouxcityreads. Copies of each title are available for check out at any Sioux City Public Library location or through the Libby app.  

The winner will be announced this December and will serve as inspiration for events, discussions, and programs throughout the upcoming Sioux City Reads initiative. Visit SiouxCityLibrary.org/siouxcityreads, the Library’s Facebook page, or sign-up for the Library’s e-newsletter at SiouxCityLibrary.org/news to get all the latest updates. 

In the Sioux City Reads book nominee The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian, a luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller. Bohjalian presents a blistering story of fame, race, love, and death set in a world on the cusp of great change.

“The Lioness…may be [Bohjalian’s] best yet….The early 1960s are captured in technicolor, and Bohjalian effortlessly merges character development with wider historical concerns.” – Molly Odinz, CrimeReads 

“The Lioness feels like the best possible combination of Hemingway and Agatha Christie — a gorgeously written story about the landscape and risks of Africa, whose edge-of-your-seat plot makes it impossible to put down. Bohjalian just gets better and better.”- Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here 

Through November 21, cast your vote for this book or one of the other exciting nominees to help select the 2023 Sioux City Reads title at SiouxCityLibrary.org/siouxcityreads. Copies of each title are available for check out at any Sioux City Public Library location or through the Libby app.  

The winner will be announced this December and will serve as inspiration for events, discussions, and programs throughout the upcoming Sioux City Reads initiative. Visit SiouxCityLibrary.org/siouxcityreads, the Library’s Facebook page, or sign-up for the Library’s e-newsletter at SiouxCityLibrary.org/news to get all the latest updates.

2023 Sioux City Reads book nominee On a Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark is an emotional narrative of love and resilience. A young couple confronts the start of Argentina’s Dirty War in the 1970s, and their daughter searches for truth twenty years later. 

“A powerful debut about a chapter in history that must be told.” – Janice Y.K. Lee, New York Bestselling Author of The Piano Teacher 

“Vividly rendered… both heartbreaking and race-to-the-end suspenseful.” – Library Journal 

Through November 21, cast your vote for this book or one of the other exciting nominees to help select the 2023 Sioux City Reads title at SiouxCityLibrary.org/siouxcityreads. Copies of each title are available for check out at any Sioux City Public Library location or through the Libby app.  

The winner will be announced this December and will serve as inspiration for events, discussions, and programs throughout the upcoming Sioux City Reads initiative. Visit SiouxCityLibrary.org/siouxcityreads, the Library’s Facebook page, or sign-up for the Library’s e-newsletter at SiouxCityLibrary.org/news to get all the latest updates.