American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL)

Established in 2006 by Dr. Debbie Reese of Nambé Pueblo, American Indians in Children's Literature (AICL) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books. Dr. Jean Mendoza joined AICL as a co-editor in 2016. (Site redesign on January 8, 2025)

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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

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Search terms Nothing substantive today, just offering you a glimpse of search terms by which people found the blog as of 11:30 today. The s...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Those Thanksgiving Lesson Plans

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Newspapers everywhere carry articles about Thanksgiving and how it is taught in local schools. To protect the students who played roles in t...
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Monday, November 20, 2006

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I'm adding a few images to the site. See, for example, the covers of Jingle Dancer and Where Did You Get Your Moccasins. Addition to m...
Sunday, November 19, 2006

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Muscogee (Creek) author, Cynthia Leitich Smith One of my favorite authors of children's books with Native characters is Cynthia Leitich ...
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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Bernelda Wheeler's WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR MOCCASINS

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Early childhood classrooms generally have a "Show and Tell" segment of the day during which one child talks about a special item...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Marlinda White-Kaulaity's article in ALAN REVIEW

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Thanks to Cynsations (Cynthia Leitich Smith's blog), I learned of an article I want to highlight today. The article is in ALAN Review ...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

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Joseph A. Dandurand's Please Do Not Touch the Indians [Note: This review used by permission of its author. It may not be published else...
Friday, November 10, 2006

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Thanksgiving Lesson Plans Below is a post from back in September that I'm repeating today. Instead of the problematic "Thanksgivin...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

Guest post: Kara Stewart, "Children's Books about Thanksgiving"

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I am a teacher. I am also Native American (Sappony). I’m very lucky that my principal and lead teacher are supportive of me in that they ...
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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James Rumford's Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing [Note: This review is used by permission of its author. It may ...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Native Perspectives on Philbrick's MAYFLOWER: A STORY OF COURAGE, COMMUNITY AND WAR

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Editor's note on July 1, 2022: Broken links are now fixed. We are grateful to readers who let us know about typos and broken links. --De...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

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Teaching about American Indians: "You don't want us to do anything!" I'm getting a few private replies to my post asking t...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

American Indian "Pourquoi" tales

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A few days ago, the White House proclaimed November to be National American Indian Heritage Month. This happens every year. Across the count...
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Tim Tingle's CROSSING BOK CHITTO

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[Note: This review used by permission of its author, Beverly Slapin. It may not be published elsewhere without written permission of the a...
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Monday, October 30, 2006

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American Psychological Association Resolution on American Indian Imagery In 2005, the American Psychological Association passed a resol...
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Sunday, October 29, 2006

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More on Indian Costumes at Halloween In the comments section for "Cowboys and Indians and Tacos and Tequila," a mother who identif...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

"Cowboys and Indians" and "Tacos and Tequilas"

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In the last few hours, several people have found my blog by doing an Internet search using these terms: "indian war paint for hallowe...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

NOT RECOMMENDED: Gerald McDermott's ARROW TO THE SUN

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Note from Debbie on Nov 6, 2021: I inserted "NOT RECOMMENDED" to the title of this post, and I inserted an image of the book cover...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Jeanette Armstrong's DANCING WITH THE CRANES

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[Note: This review is used with permission of its author, Beverly Slapin. It may not be published elsewhere without written permission of th...
Monday, October 23, 2006

Thomas King's A COYOTE COLUMBUS STORY

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If you read comments to AICL's blog posts, you'll see that Fuse #8 (that's Betsy Bird, of School Library Journal) posted this ...
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