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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Horn Book interviews Louise Erdrich

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Head over to Horn Book to read Martha Parravano's interview with Louise Erdrich ! Martha asked her about the two men who kidna...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

New website: Chickasaw TV

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One of the very best things teachers and librarians can do is to select a single tribe and learn all they can about it. Going in-depth with ...
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Thursday, September 06, 2012

New YA Book Award: the BURT AWARD FOR FIRST NATIONS, METIS AND INUIT LITERATURE

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This is exciting news out of Canada from CODE, a Canadian NGO that supports literacy and learning! From the CODE website : The Burt Aw...
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Tuesday, September 04, 2012

LIFE IN A SIOUX VILLAGE, by Sally Senzell Isaacs

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Capstone Classoom is offering a " Common Core Grade 3 Curriculum Bundle " that includes Sally Senzell Isaacs's Life in a Sioux...
Friday, August 24, 2012

Indians in Booklist's 2012 "Top 10 Westerns for Youth" - THE CASE OF THE DEADLY DESPERADOS

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Earlier today, Erin wrote to me to ask if I'd seen the list of books in the "Top 10 Westerns for Youth" in the August 2012 iss...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA: WHO WE ARE, edited by Jacilee Wray

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In an effort to draw on the expertise of librarians who work at tribal libraries, I put out a call for nonfiction recommendations. Miriam ...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Bruce Grant's CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

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Bruce Grant's Concise Encyclopedia of the American Indian was first published in 1958 as American Indians, Yesterday and Today.  I...
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PBS documentary on "Forrest Carter" and THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE

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On August 26th, a handful of PBS stations will air The Reconstruction of Asa Carter.  He wrote The Education of Little Tree, passing it off...
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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