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Thursday, May 09, 2013

A Native Perspective on Francesca Lia Block's CHEROKEE BAT AND THE GOAT GUYS

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Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat is a much acclaimed book. When published in 1989, it was hailed as groundbreaking, primarily for its i...
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Monday, May 06, 2013

"Indian American" in Francesca Lia Block's PINK SMOG

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A few days ago, I wrote about Francesca Lia Block's now-classic Weetzie Bat. Although I appreciate that the gay relationship in it was ...
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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 ...