Anytime you're in Washington DC, I hope you visit the National Museum of the American Indian. I was part of our tribal delegation when it opened several years ago. My daughter and I carry warm memories of that day. It was powerful and affirming in so many ways. I've worked with several people there, as well as attending some of their webcasts.
Today I want to point you to their newsletter for teachers. Five issues are
available online. Here's a screenshot of the
most recent one (Winter 2015):
Back
in 2009, I wrote about
When the Rain Sings: Poems by Young Native Americans that is featured in the newsletter for Winter 2015. In that second paragraph above, Renee Gokey pointed to the
selection criteria developed at the American Indian Library Association for its Youth Literature Award, a rubric for evaluating books, and my page of
Best Books.
Visit the NMAI site and read the newsletters! In the current one, you'll see two more wonderful books on the first page:
Sweetest Kulu and
House of Purple Cedar.
The newsletter talks about
Never Alone, too, which I haven't looked at, but know is highly regarded by many of my colleagues.
And--there's a note, too, about what is coming in the next newsletter: how to engage children in difficult topics, like Indian Removal.
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