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Friday, March 18, 2011

An Indian and a Soldier in Vienna, Austria

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Andrea Herrera was in Intro to American Indian Studies, a course I taught at the University of Illinois in its American Indian Studies progr...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

American Indians or Stereotypes of American Indians in HUCKLEBERRY FINN

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Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer has stereotypes of American Indians in it. Tom Sawyer also has an Indian character who Twain calls "Injun...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Boarding school video available: SHI-SHI-ETKO

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Several times on American Indians in Children's Literature , I've written about Nicola Campbell's outstanding picture book about...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Ryan Red Corn and Sterlin Harjo's SMILING INDIANS

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People in the children's literature world love to use photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis. They believe his photos to be authentic por...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

Seale and Slapin's A BROKEN FLUTE available in ebook

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Seale and Slapin's A Broken Flute: The Native Perspective in Books for Children is available in ebook. I've got two print copies th...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Ann Turner's note in FATHER OF LIES

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Three Turtles and Their Pet Librarian posted a review of Ann Turner's Father of Lies . The book is about the Salem witch trials. In th...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2011

Toni Morrison: "racially inflected language"

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I am rereading Joel Taxel's "Multicultural Literature and the Politics of Reaction" wherein he quotes Toni Morrison saying the...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

"wild Indians" in Dickens' DAVID COPPERFIELD

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On our road trip last weekend we listened to David Copperfield (audio book). I enjoyed it more than I expected, but noted Dickens' use o...
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Monday, February 14, 2011

American Indians and "Double Jeopardy!" (yeah, the game show)

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The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) publishes a blog that is loaded with terrific information. In January, ...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Leo Politi's LITTLE LEO

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As I worked on my review essay about Leo Politi's Song of the Swallows , I kept recalling that somewhere, I'd seen something about a...
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"Teaching Children about American Indians" - U Wisconsin, Eau Claire

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What are you doing on Friday, February 25th? If you're in the Eau Claire area, I'm giving a lecture and workshop on "Teaching...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Indians in Leo Politi's SONG OF THE SWALLOWS

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Among the Caldecott Medal books I studied for my presentation at the Children's Literature Symposium at Florida State University-Saras...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Robert Lawson's "Indians--tame ones" and slaves in Minnesota

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This weekend at the Children's Literature Symposium at Florida State University-Sarasota, I'll be giving a talk about the illustrat...
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011

"Kossa Indian Dancers"

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Would you go to a service in a synagogue, mosque, church, or temple, study the attire, movements, music, and words of the people there, and ...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

2011 Opening Minds Conference - Chicago Metro AEYC

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A hearty welcome to people who attended Choosing and Using Picture Books about Native Americans: What's New, What's Good, and Wha...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Native authored-books on the 2011 Notable Children's Books list

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Quoting from the website of the Association for Library Service to Children: Each year a committee of the Association for Library Service t...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

An American Indian perspective on changing "Injun" to "Indian" in TOM SAWYER

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On January 3rd, Publisher's Weekly carried an article called Upcoming NewSouth 'Huck Finn' Eliminates the 'N' Word . Th...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Joseph Bruchac's HIDDEN ROOTS back in print!

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Update on Sep 30 2023: I (Debbie Reese) no longer recommend Bruchac's work. For details see  Is Joseph Bruchac truly Abenaki? Sharin...
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