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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Freedman's WASHINGTON AT VALLEY FORGE

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Theresa Sidel, a colleague in the American Indian Library Association, wrote to me, noting passages in Freedman's Washington at Valley F...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

Effects of American Indian stereotypes

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In several places on American Indians in Children's Literature and in my writing, I reference resolutions of the American Sociological A...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Willow (from Buffy) on Columbus Day and Thanksgiving

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Willow (Buffy's friend in Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and her mother do not celebrate Columbus Day or Thanksgiving. "It's a sham...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

YUROK, by Barbara A. Gray-Kanatiiosh

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[Editor's Note: This review may not be published elsewhere without the written permission of Marlette Grant-Jackson at Humboldt Univ...
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Saturday, March 07, 2009

Richard Scarry's Indians

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A few years ago, I read about stereotypical Indians in Richard Scarry's books, specifically, the ones in  Best Word Book Ever . I starte...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

This just in: LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE (in Arizona)

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A colleague just sent me an article from an Arizona newspaper. (Thanks, Tricia!) The article is titled "Each day, Tempe teacher turns t...
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"Indian Day"

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I'm at the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale, reading the American Indian Magazine , Vol. IV, No. 2, April-June, 1916, I came across a...
Sunday, March 01, 2009

"Rubbed the wrong way"

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In an interview she gave to Vermont Public Radio, Beth Kanell was asked about criticism of her book, Darkness Under the Water . She characte...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Not Recommended: "The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry

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Note from Debbie on Dec 17, 2020: A reader wrote to let us know that "The Ransom of Red Chief" also includes the N word and that I...
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