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Saturday, August 05, 2006

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"Indian Festival" Leaving Pennsylvania today, after spending a few days in beautiful country in the NW corner, where a small town...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve: "...so little is known about the women."

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In Completing the Circle , Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve says "so little is known about the women." In history textbooks, and in chi...
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Saturday, July 29, 2006

"Wild Indian" stereotype

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Yesterday at the doctor's office, flipping thru magazines on the table, I was surprised to see a full page Tylenol ad on the back page o...
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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Shirley Sterling's MY NAME IS SEEPEETZA

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A reader told me about an article by Shirley Sterling, author of one of the boarding school books I wrote about yesterday. The article is a ...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

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American Indian Boarding Schools - continued Native singer/songwriter Arigon Starr heard about the critique of Rinaldi's book and wrote ...

American Indian Boarding Schools

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I think that when most people hear "boarding school," they think of elite private schools, and perhaps they think of Hogwarts (Har...
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Monday, July 24, 2006

Writing BY American Indians that isn't ABOUT American Indians

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In my work, I search for books and stories about American Indians that are written (or retold) by American Indians. I do this because it is...
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Sunday, July 23, 2006

More Board Books

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There are four additional board books by Beverly Blacksheep! They are Baby Learns about Weather , Baby Learns about Time , Baby Learns abou...
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Thursday, July 20, 2006

The 1700's: Writings about Indians

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I spent the last three days studying materials in the Yale libraries. It is fascinating to do this sort of research. There is so much here...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Board Books

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In some of my posts, I talked about words like "papoose" that some (incorrectly) think are "Indian" words that all India...
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Thursday, July 13, 2006

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"Indian" words: Teaching about Indians, Part II In children's books (and TV, movies, etc.) there are many words that are used ...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

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Finding Books by Tribal Name A reader asked if there is a resource that lists recommended books by tribal nation. I don't know of such a...
Monday, July 10, 2006

Marcie Rendon's POWWOW SUMMER (1996)

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Back in the mid 90s I was reviewing for children's lit review journals. I was sent LOTS of books to review. Most were pretty dismal, b...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

"Happy Hunting Ground"

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In the landscape of words and phrases that are somehow associated with American Indians is "Happy Hunting Ground." I spent a hal...
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A reader asked about CADDIE WOODLAWN....

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When my daughter was in 3rd grade (eight years ago), one evening while doing reading homework, she said "Mom, I don't get it....
Saturday, July 08, 2006

All-Time Best Selling Paperbacks

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In December of 2001, Publisher's Weekly published a list of all-time best selling paperbacks. The list, compiled by Debbie Turvey, list...
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Thursday, July 06, 2006

Cheryl Savageau's MUSKRAT WILL BE SWIMMING

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One area of my research is the analysis of American Indian folktales that are marketed as picture books for children. I submitted an articl...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Teaching about Indians, Part I

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I often get private emails from teachers asking about best practice in terms of teaching about American Indians. Over a series of blog pos...
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Monday, July 03, 2006

Joy Harjo's THE GOOD LUCK CAT

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In my "links" I include links to Cynthia Leitich Smith's blog and her website. She's got some terrific books ( Jingle Danc...
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Saturday, July 01, 2006

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In "comments" to my previous post, Opal noted that American Indians get short shrift in history classes, in part due to state stan...