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Saturday, May 04, 2013

WEETZIE BAT by Francesca Lia Block

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Years ago I started reading Weetzie Bat but put it down, in part, because of these passages in the first few pages of the first chapter (n...
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Friday, May 03, 2013

New blog: DE COLORES: THE RAZA EXPERIENCE IN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

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De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for Children is a new blog, just launched a few days ago.  De Colores  is moderated by Beverl...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Navajo Nation's First Poet Laureate: Luci Tapahonso

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Does your library have Luci Tapahonso's Blue Horses Rush In on your YA or adult fiction or poetry shelves? Is her Songs of Shiproc...
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Monday, April 29, 2013

GOOD MORNING WORLD by Paul Windsor (Haisla, Heiltsuk)

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Spring mornings! Many of us get out of bed and feel a surge of joy at hearing birds sing and seeing the sun rise on budding trees. With...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Dear Teachers: Native masks are not art

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Dear Teachers and Homeschooling Parents, Many art project books for use in classrooms include a section on making Native masks. One exampl...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

NATIVE WRITERS: VOICES OF POWER, by Kim Sigafus and Lyle Ernst

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Editors note on Oct 2, 2018: This volume includes Joseph Boyden, a writer whose claim to Native identity has been challenged. When that news...
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Dorothy Kunhardt and Garth Williams' ROGER MOUSE'S WISH

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Editor's Update, 6:30 PM on April 10, 2013: Mary sent me text and scans of three pages of Roger Mouse's Wish. I've inserted th...

Joan Walsh Anglund's THE BRAVE COWBOY

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Several weeks ago, Jo, (she's married to my cousin, Steve) wrote on my Facebook wall (in a comment to my post there about Peggy Parrish...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Oyate's Review of Neil Philip's THE GREAT CIRCLE: A HISTORY OF THE FIRST NATIONS

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For those of you looking for Oyate's review of Neil Philip's The Great Circle: A History of the First Nations , it is available at...
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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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