Books Reviewed in THROUGH INDIAN EYES

In the 1990s during graduate school, I read a book called Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. Prior to grad school, I had been teaching elementary school and was continually disappointed with the ways that American Indians were portrayed in children's books. I was very glad to know about Through Indian Eyes. Edited by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale, the book is packed with critical reviews, essays, and poems. Today, I'm listing the books reviewed in Through Indian Eyes. If you don't have a copy, you should get one. It is available in paperback from Oyate, a Native not-for-profit organization, for $25.

Books reviewed in Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children (Note: this is NOT a list of recommended books! Some are worth having; others are not.)

• Ashabranner, Brent. Children of the Maya; Morning Star, Black Sun; To Live in Two Worlds
  
• Armstrong, Jeanette. Neekna and Chemai
  
• Awiakta, Marilous. Rising Fawn and the Fire Mystery
• Baker, Betty. Three Fools and a Horse
• Baker, Olaf. Where the Buffaloes Begin
• Banks, Lynne Reid. The Indian in the Cupboard; The Return of the Indian
• Baylor, Byrd. Before You Came This Way; The Desert is Theirs; A God on Every Mountain Top; Hawk, I'm Your Brother; They Put on Masks
• Benton-Banai, Edward. The Mishomis Book
• Bierhorst, John. Doctor Coyote
• Big Crow, Moses Nelson/Eyo Hiktepi. A Legend from Crazy Horse Clan
• Blood, Charles, and Martin Link. The Goat in the Rug
• Brescia, Bill (ed). Our Mother Corn
• Brewer, Linda Skinner. O Wakaga
• Broker, Ignatia. Night Flying Woman
• Brown, Dee. Tepee Tales of the American Indian
• Bruchac, Joseph. Iroquois Stories; Iroquois Stories: Heroes and Heroines, Monsters and Magic; Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back; The Wind Eagle and Other Abenaki Stories
• Charging Eagle, Tom and Ron Zeilinger. Black Hills, Sacred Hills
• Collura, Mary-Ellen Lang. Winners
• Cooper, Amy Jo. Dream Quest
• Kleitsch, Christel and Paul Stephens. Dancing Feathers; A Time to be Brave
• D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire. George Washington; Pocahontas.
• DePaola, Tomie. The Legend of the Bluebonnet
• Durham, Jimmie. Columbus Day
• Fleischer, Jane. Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawas; Sitting Bull, Warrior of the Sioux; Tecumseh, Shawnee War Chief
  
• Franklin Northwest Supervisory Union Title IV Indian Education Program. Finding One's Way
• Friskey, Margaret. Indian Two Feet and His Horse
• Fritz, Jean. The Double Life of Pocahontas; The Good Giants and the Bad Puckwudgies
• Goble, Paul. Buffalo Woman; Death of the Iron Horse; Star Boy
• Green, Richard G. Wundoa: "I'm Number One"
• Haseley, Dennis. The Scared One
• Henry, Edna/We-Cha-Pi-Tu-Wen/Blue Star Woman. Native American Cookbook
• Henry, Jeanette and Rupert Costo. A Thousand Years of American Indian Storytelling
• Highwater, Jamake. The Ceremony of Innocence
• Hirschfelder, Arlene. American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children; Happily May I Walk
• Hudson, Jan. Sweetgrass
• Hungry Wolf, Beverly. The Ways of My Grandmothers
• Jassem, Kate. Chief Joseph, Leader of Destiny; Pocahontas, Girl of Jamestown; Sacajawea, Wilderness Guide; Squanto, The Pilgrim Adventure
  
• Johnston, Basil. How the Birds got their Colours
• Katz, Jane. This Song Remembers: Self Portraits of Native American in the Arts
• LeSueur, Meridel. Sparrow Hawk
• Lyons, Grant. Pacific Coast Indians of North America
• Maher, Ramona. Alice Yazzie's Year
• Martin, Bill and John Archambault. Knots on a Counting Rope
• Martinson, David. Real Wild Rice; Shemay: The Bird in the Sugarbush
• Mathers, Sharon, Linda Skinner, and Terry Tafoya. The Mamook Book: Activities for Learning about the Northwest Coast Indians
• Mayne, William. Drift
• McGovern, Ann. If You Lived with the Sioux Indians
• Miles, Miska. Annie and the Old One
• Munsch, Robert and Michael Kusugak. A Promise is a Promise
• Nabokov, Peter. Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-1992
• New Mexico People and Energy Collective. Red Ribbons for Emma
• Norman, Howard. Who-Paddled-Backward-With-Trout
• North American Indian Travelling College. Legends of Our Nations
• O'Dell, Scott. Black Star, Bright Dawn
• Okahagan Tribal Council. How Food Was Given; How Names Were Given; How Turtle Set the Animals Free
• Oppenheim, Joanne. Black Hawk; Oscela; Sequoyah
  
• Ortiz, Simon J. The People Shall Continue
• Paige, Harry W. John Stands
• Patacsil, Sharon and Colleen Neal. Daybreak Star Preschool Activities Book
• Poatgieter, Hermina. Indian Legacy: Native American Influences on World Life and Cultures
• Rock Point Community School. Between Sacred Mountains: Navajo Stories and Lessons from the Land
• Roth, Susan. Kanahena: A Cherokee Story
• Siberell, Anne. Whale in the Sky
• Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver
• Steltzer, Ulli. A Haida Potlach
• St. Paul Community Programs in the Arts and Sciences. Angwamas Minosewag Anishinabeg: Time of the Indian
• Staheli, Julie West. Kachinas Color and Cut-Out Collection
• Steptoe, John. The Story of Jumping Mouse
• Strete, Craig Kee. When Grandfather Journeys into Winter; The Bleeding Man and Other Science Fiction Stories
• TallMountain, Mary. Green March Moons
• Tapahonso, Luci. A Breeze Swept Through
• Tohono O'odham Tribal Council. Tohono O'odham: Lives of the Desert People
• Trimble, Stephen and Harvey Lloyd. Our Voices Our Land
  
• Wallin, Luke. Ceremony of the Panther; In the Shadow of the Wind
  
• Weeks, Rupert. Pachee Goyo: History and Legends from the Shoshone
• Yue, Charlotte and David Yue. The Pueblo; The Tipi: A Center of Native American Life
• Zitrkala-Sa/Gertrude Bonin. Old Indian Legends