Fruita for Equality is a collaboration to support equality, inclusivity, and diversity through meaningful conversations and action in the community.
July 2021
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Fruita for Equality
committee meeting scheduled
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The Fruita for Equality Committee will begin meeting monthly on the third Monday of the month. Our next scheduled meeting is at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 16, at the Fruita Branch Library, 324 N. Coulson St.
Agenda items are:
1) Committee organization & structure: The committee will continue the discussion of how the committee should be organized going forward.
2) New Business: Committee members will provide updates related to Fruita for Equality's mission and will begin looking forward to new projects/events/goals.
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From the Mesa County Libraries Blog:
The Teller Institute, Grand Junction’s American Indian School
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With the gruesome discovery of the bodies of First Nations children on the grounds of residential schools in Canada, people are turning their attention to American Indian schools in the United States.
These boarding schools operated in the late 1800s and 1900s. They were dedicated to the forced acculturation of Native American children, who were often taken from their homes and made to attend. Mesa County had its own American Indian School. The school’s records were destroyed in a fire in Leavenworth, Kansas, making it difficult to piece together the history of the institute. Thankfully, local history professor Don Mackendrick did just that. This blog follows much of his lecture on the same topic.
The Teller Indian School (later called the Teller Institute, located at 2800 Riverside Parkway in Grand Junction) was named after U.S. Sen. Henry Teller of Colorado, who was instrumental in passing legislation for the creation of the school in 1886. The first students arrived in 1887. The school followed the philosophy of Colonel Richard Henry Pratt, founder of the Carlyle School in Pennsylvania. He believed that Indian children must be removed from their families and culture and immersed in western civilization. The Carlyle motto was “kill the Indian to save the man.”
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Library offers
Mirrors and Windows Reading Experience
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Participate in the Mirrors and Windows Reading Experience to explore the stories of our diverse world.
Discovering the experiences of others will help you connect with your neighbors in Mesa County.
Complete this reading experience by earning badges. For each badge, you will select and explore a title, reflect and/or share how the materials you chose sit with you. Each badge you earn will allow you to discover new stories or connect with stories similar to your own.
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Book/Media Recommendations |
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In this powerful and provocative memoir, Kiese Laymon fearlessly explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of living in a country wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we've been.
In "Heavy," Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to his trek to New York as a young college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his family, weight, sex, gambling, and writing. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, Laymon asks himself, his mother, his nation, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few of us know how to responsibly love.
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From the critically acclaimed author of "The Kiss Quotient" comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart.
Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but not big, important emotions -- like grief. And love. He thinks he's defective. His family knows better -- that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride.
As a mixed-race girl living in the slums of Ho Chi Minh City, Esme Tran has always felt out of place. When the opportunity arises to come to America and meet a potential husband, she can't turn it down, thinking this could be the break her family needs. Seducing Khai, however, doesn't go as planned. Esme's lessons in love seem to be working, but only on herself. She's hopelessly smitten with a man who's convinced he can never return her affection. With Esme's time in the United States dwindling, Khai is forced to understand he's been wrong all along. And there's more than one way to love.
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