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Friday, January 26, 2007

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Pamela Porter's Sky [This review used by permission of its author, Beverly Slapin. It may not be published elsewhere without her written...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

The LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Makeover

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According to the January 29, 2007 edition of Newsweek , the acclaimed Little House on the Prairie series is getting a makeover. For the 75...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

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"Proceed with Caution: Using Native American Folktales in the Classroom" The January 2007 issue of Language Arts , published by th...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

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Representation, Stereotypes of American Indians, "Chief Illiniwek" Those of you familiar with UIUC know that its sports team masco...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

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Marlene Carvell's Sweetgrass Basket [This review is by Beverly Slapin and used with her permission. It may not be published elsewhere wi...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Books by and about American Indians: 2005

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Each year, the Cooperative Children's Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison publishes an important year-in-review booklet c...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

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News regarding Seale and Slapin's A Broken Flute: The Native Perspective in Books for Children Shonto Begay. Eve Bunting. Ann Nolan Clar...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

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Choosing Children's Books about American Indians On Friday, January 26, I will be in Chicago leading a workshop for elementary school te...
Monday, January 08, 2007

Teaching Sterling's MY NAME IS SEEPEETZA and Tohe's NO PAROLE TODAY

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Last night I watched a video in which a teacher engages her middle school students in a study of boarding schools for American Indian studen...
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Sunday, January 07, 2007

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Some Thoughts On Teaching About Native Americans by John A. Duerk [Note from Debbie: Several weeks ago, I began email correspondence with J...
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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Geraldine McCaughrean's PETER PAN IN SCARLET

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A couple of weeks ago, a reader of this blog wrote to me to ask if I’d read Geraldine McCaughrean’s book, Peter Pan in Scarlet , released o...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Allen Sockabasin's THANKS TO THE ANIMALS

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My family in New Mexico is among those coping with a huge snowfall. My sister says there's two feet outside her door. They're in n...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

"I is not for Indian"

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Pointing you, today, to an article linked in my "Articles" list on the right-hand side of this blog. In 1991, Naomi Caldwell-Woo...
Friday, December 29, 2006

Richard Van Camp's THE LESSER BLESSED

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Books for young adults are often unsettling to adults who think teens are growing up too fast. These adults are uncomfortable with novels a...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Deborah Miranda's, THE ZEN OF LA LLORONA

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[Note: This review is used here by permission of its author, Beverly Slapin. It may not be published elsewhere without the author's writ...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

Presentation of 2006 American Book Awards

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Yesterday (December 15th), the Before Columbus Foundation presented the American Book Awards for 2006. This purpose of the award is to ackno...
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Friday, December 15, 2006

Joseph Medicine Crow's COUNTING COUP: BECOMING A CROW CHIEF ON THE RESERVATION AND BEYOND

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[Note: This review is used by permission of its author and may not be published elsewhere without written permission of the author.] ______...
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Simon Ortiz's THE PEOPLE SHALL CONTINUE

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"The People looked around them and they saw Black People, Chicano People, Asian People, many White People and others who were kept poo...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Josefina, An American Girl

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Today in class, one of my students shared a book in the American Girl "Josefina" line. The book is Welcome to Josefina's Wo...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Scieszka's ME OH MAYA and Gibson's APOCALYPTO

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Mel Gibson's film Apocalypto is about to be released. The previews promise a lot of action, and it looks like it features a lot of ster...