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Family Storytime – The Colors of Us

Join OFPL in-person at the Children & Youth Library every Monday and Wednesday at 11:00 AM for storytime activities, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, and read-aloud stories every week!

Octavia Fellin Children & Youth Library
200 West Aztec Ave.

November 7th & 9th at 11:00 AM

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we will learn color words in Navajo and Zuni and explore the significance of different colors in these cultures. Ages 0-5.

Storytime Theme
Week 2: The Colors of Us

Email pneilson@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

New Mexico Traditions Series

Visit YouTube, @galluplibrary to view episodes of the OFPL New Mexico Traditions Series.  Featuring different winter traditions of the diverse peoples of New Mexico. Videos are posted Wednesdays and Fridays at 11:00 a.m.

Premiere dates:

December 2nd, 2020 -Posole
December 4th, 2020 – Farolitos
December 9th, 2020 – Tamales
December 11th, 2020 – Biscochitos
December 16th, 2020 – Hopi Soyal
December 18th, 2020 – Shalako (A:shiwí, Zuni)
December 23rd, 2020 – Ristras
December 25th, 2020 – La Posada
December 30th, 2020 – Winter Stories (Diné, Navajo)

Revitalizing Language Through Storytelling

Grassroots group aims to revitalize Diné Bizaad and encourage bilingualism through Shimá Storytelling.

Gallup Independent. November 15th, 2019. Christina Tsosie, Staff Writer.

GALLUP – Shimá Storytelling began with Radmilla Cody briefly informing attendees in the audience that taking photos and recording songs and performances by the trio – comprised of Cody, Pauletta Chief-Lee, and Stefanie Littlehat – was forbidden.

Anne Price of the Octavia Fellin Public Library Children’s Branch and their staff invited Shimá storytelling as their guests for Native American Heritage Month and Native Language Programming Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m..

Along with songs aimed at revitalizing Diné Bizaad, or the Navajo language, the group also hopes to promote awareness of consent. Continued after image.

Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.

Empowering Youth

Too often in this age – the age of social media – we forget that we need to ask permission to take photos or record sessions, said Cody, after all, it is their body, their choice.

“Not only do we want to empower youth by encouraging them to speak up against anyone attempting to capture their likeness or their actions, we also want to create a safe space for everyone so that they can be free to be themselves,” she said. “We’re very sensitive towards other people’s preferences – whatever those may be. This is something that we have done from the beginning.”

Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.

When Shimá Storytelling began their story in April, their goal was to bring their children together to socialize and play with one another while listening and speaking Navajo.

Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.