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Thursday, July 05, 2012

Recent radio program on the shut-down of TUSD's Mexican American Studies Classes

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On July 2nd, Education Radio featured a two-hour program in which they interviewed students and teachers from the now-shut-down Mexican Am...
Monday, June 25, 2012

"God used the 'Trail of Tears' to bring many Indians to Christ"

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In August of 2010, a woman I met while on vacation asked me if I knew about the A Beka books . I didn't, and hadn't given them anoth...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Patricia and Fredrick McKissack Jr.'s BEST SHOT IN THE WEST: THE ADVENTURES OF NAT LOVE

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A few days ago, Doret (she blogs at The Happy Nappy Bookseller ) posted her review of Patricia and Fredrick McKissack Jr.'s Best Sho...
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Friday, June 22, 2012

Jodi Lynn Anderson's TIGER LILY

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I'm reading reviews on goodreads of Jodi Lynn Anderson's new book, Tiger Lily.  In which there's a shaman named Tik Tok who al...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

"Ethnic Studies Under Fire: The Role of Publishers, Librarians, Teachers, and Activists"

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On Monday, June 25, 2012, from 1:30 to 3:30 at the American Library Association conference in Anaheim, Adriana McCleer, Carmen Tafolla, Oral...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Guest post by Betsy McEntarffer: "Getting Culturally Accurate and Positive Books in the Hands of Students and Teachers - One Idea that Works

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Editor's note: I am pleased to share this post by Betsy McEntarffer of Lincoln Public Schools in Lincoln, Nebraska. A few weeks ...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Dorothy Kunhardt's BRAVE MR. BUCKINGHAM

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Dorothy Kunhardt's Pat the Bunny is a classic. Published in 1940 by Simon & Schuster, I'd be willing to bet it is one of those...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Elizabeth Bird at SLJ: 2012 "Top 100" Picture Books & Novels

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Betsy's photo at Goodreads Elizabeth Bird, author of SLJ's A Fuse 8 Production blog has, for the past few weeks, been posting t...
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Saturday, June 09, 2012

NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON, by Gloria Whelan

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Danielle wrote to ask me about Gloria Whelan's Night of the Full Moon. It is regarded as a "first chapter book" (for children ...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Bunky Echo-Hawk, Bunky Echo-Hawk, and, Bunky Echo-Hawk

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An unusual photo. Bunky Echo-Hawk was doing his performance art at the 2012 conference of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012

BATTLEFIELDS AND BURIAL GROUNDS, by Roger C. and Walter B. Echo-Hawk

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Reposting an old post (from Jan 2008) because today, at the 2012 mtg of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museum...