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Friday, December 20, 2013

Phil Robertson: "The Almighty gave us this." Debbie Reese: "No. He didn't."

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In the many excellent critiques of Phil Robertson's comments about gays and African Americans, I haven't seen anything that pushes ...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Erin Hollingsworth's review of THE GIANT BEAR: AN INUIT FOLKTALE

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I follow the reviews that Erin Hollingsworth, a librarian in Barrow, Alaska posts at goodreads . I met Erin a couple of years ago at the 2...
Friday, December 13, 2013

WILD BERRIES by Julie Flett

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In 2011, I read Julie Flett's alphabet book,  Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer. In English, the title of that book is Owls See Clearly a...
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Saturday, December 07, 2013

"Mom, when Jesus was born, where were all the women?" Marcie Rendon's response is HANNAH: THE MIDWIFE WHO DELIVERED JESUS

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Marcie Rendon's daughters were raised in a matriarchal home. On Christmas Eve, 1990, one of her daughters asked her "Mom, when Je...
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Thursday, December 05, 2013

2013 Virginia Mathews Scholarship Awarded to Debbie Reese

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In today's email, I received the Fall 2013 newsletter of the American Indian Library Association. In it is an announcement that I was se...
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Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Online Video: INJUNUITY - TWO SPIRIT

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Have you heard of the INJUNUITY   project? It consists of a series of short videos about Indigenous people. The one I'm pointing you tod...
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Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Art Coulson's THE CREATOR'S GAME: A STORY OF BAAGA'ADOWE/LACROSSE

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Note from Debbie on Nov 28, 2023: Due to  my concerns over Art Coulson's claim of being Cherokee , I am no longer recommending his books...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Taylor (5th grader): "Do you mean all those Thanksgiving worksheets we had to color every year with all those smiling Indians were wrong?"

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This morning I received an email from a teacher who wrote to share what Taylor, a fifth grader, wrote in response to having studied a speec...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

ORIGINAL LOCAL: INDIGENOUS FOODS, STORIES, AND RECIPES FROM THE UPPER MIDWEST, by Heid E. Erdrich

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Heid Erdrich's Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest is a treat! I mean that literally (readin...
Friday, November 08, 2013

Marcie Rendon's POWWOW SUMMER: A FAMILY CELEBRATES THE CIRCLE OF LIFE (2013)

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Back in the 1990s when I started graduate school, I read Marcie Rendon's  Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life.  Orig...
Thursday, November 07, 2013

Looking for Children's Books about Thanksgiving? (Part 1)

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(Editor's Note, November 8, 2013: I've been casting about trying to find words to explain what is wrong with the idea that the Pil...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013

DVD Review: CANES OF POWER

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By a presidential proclamation , November is National Native American Heritage Month. A good many teachers and librarians are doing all they...

SLJ's 2013 Focus On "Resources and Kid Lit about American Indians"

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School Library Journal has a "Focus On" series in its Collection Development category. Each "Focus On" is devoted to a s...
Sunday, November 03, 2013

Trailer for FREE BIRDS

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Thanks to Ernest Whiteman of Adobe Youth Voices , I just took a look at the trailer for the new movie, Free Birds. In it, turkeys travel b...
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Saturday, November 02, 2013

Presidential Proclamation: National Native American Heritage Month, 2013

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Let me preface my sharing of President Obama's proclamation by saying (again) that I don't think teachings about any particular gro...
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Friday, November 01, 2013

Encounter in an antique store: "We pay taxes!"

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Last week my mom, sister, and niece were visiting me in Illinois. They wanted to go to antique shops, so we set out to visit some. For the ...
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Vanity Fair's "Favorite" Halloween Costumes

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Having my coffee this morning, my twitter feed included a link to a Vanity Fair slideshow of "favorite" costumes at an event tha...