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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Intersections: Alice Walker, playing Indian, and real Indians

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Searching for information about Bill Wahpepah, a Kickapoo and Sauk and Fox man who worked at the Native American Survival School in the Bay...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Book signing: Simon Ortiz and Evelina Zuni Lucero

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If you can, head for downtown Santa Fe next Tuesday. At 3:00, Simon Ortiz and Evelina Zuni Lucero will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art...
Thursday, July 09, 2009

"Moccasins and Microphones" Poetry Performance, Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team

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Back in November, 2008, NewsHour on PBS featured a handful of high school poets from Santa Fe Indian School. They are in the Spoken Word Cl...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Quileute Response to TWILIGHT

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Pasting below an extended excerpt from a New York Post article. Called " Vampire Vacation: Twilight Fans Turn a Quiet Indian Reservati...
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"Do you know what a bow and arrow is?"

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I read a newspaper article this morning about a tutoring program in San Jose that helps refugees assimilate. A family from Myanmar is the fo...
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Monday, July 06, 2009

Gloria Whelan's AFTER THE TRAIN

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Directing you, today, to Rebecca Rabinowitz's " Source fiction is no excuse for racism ." Her essay is about Gloria Whelan'...
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Friday, July 03, 2009

Tanya Landman and Can't-be-relied-on reviews

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Last year I read a book filled with errors and bias. I wrote about it here and posted Beverly Slapin's review , and did a follow-up a ...
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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Indians in LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS

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Over on the child_lit listserv, a subscriber posted a link to an online article in The Weekly Standard . Titled " Picture Perfect ,&quo...
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Response to HANK THE COWDOG

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Betsy McEntarffer, a regular reader of American Indians in Children's Literature submitted a comment to my post about Hank the Cowdog ....
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

American Indian Art

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Off topic, maybe, a little bit... Occasionally, people write to me, asking where (online) they can get Native art. A few days ago, I learned...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Jeff Berglund's response to "Desecrations and Desires: White Male Fantasy in Will Hobbs' BEARSTONE

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Jeff Berglund , a friend and colleague at Northern Arizona University , wrote this essay in response to Jane Haladay’s essay , “Desecr...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond

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My colleague, J. Kehaulani Kauanui, hosts a radio program called Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond . She interviewed m...

Book trailer: ENCOUNTER by Jane Yolen

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In recent years, book trailers are taking off. They are like book talks teachers and librarians do when they're pitching a book to reade...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

New book by Joy Harjo, author of THE GOOD LUCK CAT

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Watching the mail, waiting for my review copy of Joy Harjo's new picture book, For A Girl Becoming. Published by the University of Arizo...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

William O. Steele's THE BUFFALO KNIFE

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A reader wrote to ask about William O. Steele's The Buffalo Knife . I have not read the book and prior to her letter, did not know anyth...
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Friday, June 19, 2009

Patricia Wrede's thinking as she wrote THE THIRTEENTH CHILD

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For some time now, I've wondered about the correspondence that takes place between a writer and his/her editor when the author's man...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Jennifer Denetdale's THE LONG WALK: THE FORCED NAVAJO EXILE

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Heated debate is taking place over Patricia Wrede's book, The Thirteenth Child . Many people defend her decision to write a "settli...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Among America's exports....

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Among America's exports is stereotypical imagery of American Indians. Take, for example, O. Henry's short story, "The Ransom of...

Hank the Cowdog

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Earlier today I had an email from a woman, asking if I'd read the series, Hank the Cowdog . I have not, so checked into it a little.... ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Newsletter: Winding Rivers Library System

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Earlier this year I visited the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse to talk with teachers and librarians about American Indians in children'...
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