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Thursday, August 06, 2009

The National Museum of American Indian has a blog...

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Just a quick pointer, today, to the blog over at the National Museum of the American Indian... Read through it for insights about Native v...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Congratulations to Muscogee (Creek) author, Cynthia Leitich Smith

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Good news! The trade and library editions of Jingle Dancer are going into another printing! Written by Muscogee (Creek) author, Cynthia Lei...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Diane Chen (SLJ) review of Jennifer Denetdale's

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Pointing you, today, to Diane Chen's post about Jennifer Denetdale's book, The Long Walk: The Forced Navajo Exile . Diane's bl...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

About Paul Goble and his books...

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I get a lot of questions about Paul Goble. Are his books accurate? Reliable? I have not studied them myself, but can refer you to the works ...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Brits and Americans, Imagining Indians

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This morning, I read an article in the Telegrap h about the "Latitude Festival," an annual music festival that takes place in Su...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

News about TWILIGHT

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Warning: This will be a snarky post. Meyer has found another way to suck. Obviously, my use of the word "suck" has multiple meanin...
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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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