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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Gerald Dawavendewa's THE BUTTERFLY DANCE

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Many times on AICL and in lectures, I've said that I wish I'd had Cynthia Leitich Smith's Jingle Dancer back in the early 90s ...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

Willful and Unintentional Racism and Ignorance at the University of Illinois

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It is no surprise to anyone that a majority of UIUC students voted yes last week "in support of Chief Illiniwek as the official symbol ...
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Guest Post: Indigenous Knowledge and Children's Literature, by Katelyn Martens

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Editor's Note: A few weeks ago, I gave an online lecture (via Skype) to the Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums (TLAM) class at the ...
Friday, March 08, 2013

Inspired by Students at University of Redlands and Sherman Indian School

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On Wednesday, March 6th, I spoke at Cal State Polytechnic University in Pomona. The next day (March 7th, 2013), I spent the day at Redlands...
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Thursday, March 07, 2013

Cal State Polytechnic University: Talking about Playing Indian

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On Tuesday, I flew in to California to give two lectures and visit some classes. Before the first talk, I had lunch with two groups. One g...
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Monday, March 04, 2013

Two free public lectures in Redlands & Pomona this week!

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This week, I'll be giving two free public lectures in which I'll talk about misrepresentations of American Indians (dates/times/loca...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

AICL Cringes: ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS is the all-time best selling Newbery Medal winning book.

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Editor's Note: On 2/24/2014, I inserted "AICL Cringes" to the initial title of this post, to clarify how I feel about ISLAND b...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Native authors at Tucson Festival of Books

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The Tucson Festival of Books is coming up next month (March). If you're going (I wish I was!!!), check out this panel: Destiny & ...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

BUFFALO BIRD GIRL: A HIDATSA STORY, by S.D. Nelson

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The subject of most biographies of Native women are Pocahontas and Sacajawea. I did a search of the Comprehensive Children's Literature...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Dear John Segal, author of PIRATES DON'T TAKE BATHS

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On AICL, there's a page of " the foul among the good " that catalogs books in which Native people are stereotyped, objectified...
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DANCES WITH WOLVES: A STORY FOR CHILDREN

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Last night (Feb 21, 2013), I joined a Readers Advisory chat on Twitter. Held every first and third Thursday evening at 8:00 PM Eastern Time,...
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Thursday, February 21, 2013

LITTLE YOU, written by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by Julie Flett

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Richard Van Camp has another terrific book out... I've written before about his board books, his picture books, and his young adult nove...

Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton's WHEN I WAS EIGHT

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The most powerful stories are those that pull you in such that you feel the emotions of the character(s) in the story and when you come to t...
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Why You Can't Teach U.S. History without American Indians

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On May 3rd and 4th, 2013, the Newberry Library in Chicago will host a seminar titled "Why You Can't Teach U.S. History without Ame...