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Friday, June 10, 2011

WORSE THAN ROTTEN, RALPH by Jack Gantos and Nicole Rubel

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As I move out of my campus office, I'm finding books I've meant to write about... Did you read Worse than Rotten, Ralph (1978) by ...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Australian cover for ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN

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Editors Note on Feb 25, 2018: Please see my  apology  about promoting Alexie's work. --Debbie This is the Australian cover for She...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011

Dang...

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Nothing quite like starting a new novel and running into 'native as in born here, not savage' on the first page. The book is What ...
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Teen-created cover for Alexie's PART-TIME INDIAN

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Editors Note on Feb 25, 2018: Please see my  apology  about promoting Alexie's work. --Debbie On the yalsa-bk listserv, a librarian in...
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"Others: 31%"

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The New York Times has an interactive mapping feature called Mapping America available where you can "Browse local data from the Cens...
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Monday, June 06, 2011

A Right to Justice: Native Youth Theater Play about Police Brutality

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Photo credit: Charla Bear, KPLU, Seattle The young people in this photograph are Native actors in A Right to Justice , a play being don...
Friday, June 03, 2011

TRIBES OF NATIVE AMERICA - series

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This morning a librarian in New Jersey wrote to ask about the Tribes of Native America series published n 2002 by Blackbirch Press. I don...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Tim Tingle and Matt Dembicki at ALA

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Tim Tingle, enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma , and author of some of my favorite picture books , and Matt Dembicki will be...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Very happy personal news

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Lack of posts to AICL are because I was at the Beinecke Rare Books Library at Yale for a week doing research, and after that...   I was at...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Who is this guy?

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This is the second time in the last couple of weeks that I have seen this photograph. I first saw it in December of 2010 on the cover of Bre...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

YA Poetry CD: Moccasins and Microphones

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On July 9, 2009 I pointed to the Spoken Word Team from Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS). At the time, they were scheduled to perform a...
Saturday, May 14, 2011

Critical Media Literacy: Misrepresentation of Apache Scouts

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Last week I wrote about the use of Geronimo's name for Osama bin Laden . Since then I've been researching, reading, and thinking abo...
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Monday, May 02, 2011

FAIL: Codename for Osama bin Laden? "Geronimo"

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[ Note: I am adding links to Native responses at the bottom of this page. If you know of others, please let me know by email or in a comment...
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Saturday, April 30, 2011

YALSA's THE HUB interviews Tim Tingle

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Over at YALSA's The Hub you'll find an interview with Choctaw writer, Tim Tingle about being part of Matt Dembicki's Trickster ...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

A comment after today's session at NMLA 2011

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This morning I gave a talk at the New Mexico Librarian Association annual conference. I talked about looking critically at American India...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

First look at Karen Healey's GUARDIAN OF THE DEAD

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In December I got an ebook copy of Karen Healey's Guardian of the Dead . I found a lot that I didn't like as I read it, and little t...
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Are your kids going to Summer Camp?

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Today's post is prompted by Nicole, a reader who wrote to tell me about an article called Boys Gone Wild in baystateparent: Massachuset...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Top Board Books for the Youngest Readers

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Update on Oct 17, 2022: We add to this list, first posted in 2011. If you have additional recommendations, let us know in a comment and we...
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