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Friday, August 17, 2012

Debby Dahl Edwardson's WHALE SNOW

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We (Indigenous peoples) are diverse in a great many ways based on things like our location and history, but there are some commonalities a...
Thursday, August 16, 2012

Louise Erdrich's CHICKADEE

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With immense satisfaction and a deep sigh, I read the last words in Louise Erdrich's Chickadee and then gazed at the cover. Chickadee ...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Peter Lourie's THE LOST WORLD OF THE ANASAZI: EXPLORING THE MYSTERIES OF CHACO CANYON

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If you've got Peter Lourie's The Lost World of the Anasazi: Exploring the Mysteries of Chaco Canyon on your shelf, you can deselect ...

Alex W. Bealer's ONLY THE NAMES REMAIN: THE CHEROKEES AND THE TRAIL OF TEARS

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If Alex Bealer's Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears is still in your library, it ought to be deselected post-ha...
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Vincent Schilling's NATIVE ATHLETES IN ACTION

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1984: Alwyn Morris holds eagle feather Librarians looking to add books about the Olympics and athleticism in general will want to order ...
Monday, August 13, 2012

"In any war between the civilized man and the savage..."

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Have you seen this ad? It is, or has been, on buses in New York City and San Francisco. (See an ABC San Francisco news story on the ad: ...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Documentary: Moccasins and Microphones

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If you're in Santa Fe on Saturday, August 25th, head over to the New Mexico History Museum at 6:00 PM for the premiere showing of Mocc...
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The premise for Scholastic's INFINITY RING

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Thanks, Ami, for pointing me to something Elizabeth Bird at SLJ said : I’m sure you’ve all heard of the upcoming Scholastic series The Inf...

Guadalupe Garcia McCall's UNDER THE MESQUITE

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I grew up at Nambe Pueblo in what is now called the state of New Mexico. Nambe is one of the over 500 federally recognized sovereign nations...
Friday, August 10, 2012

Who is "Your" in NPR's YOUR FAVORITES: 100 BEST-EVER TEEN NOVELS

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Earlier this week, NPR released the results of its survey of its listeners favorite young adult novels. Like Shaker Laurie (teacher in Minn...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012

New cover for TINTIN IN AMERICA?

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This morning at the Kirkus page, I noticed a contest in which people can win complete sets of Herge's Tintin series. Here's the imag...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2012

American Indians in Children's Literature receives Wordcraft Circle Award

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I am pleased to announce that American Indians in Children's Literature was named as a recipient of one of its 2012 Wordcraft Circle ...
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Sunday, August 05, 2012

Indigenous peoples in Victoria Foyt's REVEALING EDEN

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Tweets I read yesterday prompted me to read Victoria Foyt's young adult novel, Revealing Eden. Some call it provocative, others call it ...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Indian in the... Dishwasher?!

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Though the toy Indians seen in Indian in the Cupboard are not available in the numbers they once were, they still appear in interesting plac...
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"Books that Shaped America" at the Library of Congress

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Recently, I began to see links to a new exhibit at the Library of Congress. Titled "Books That Shaped America," it consists of 91...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Robopocalypse is summer reading in Champaign, Illinois

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I was at the Champaign Public Library a few weeks ago and saw that the local public school has Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse on its ...
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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...