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Thursday, December 11, 2014

AICL's Best Books of 2014

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Lists! People love lists. I do, too. For those of you looking for a list of Best Books published in 2014, by American Indians/First Nations ...
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Tim Tingle's HOUSE OF PURPLE CEDAR

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Tim Tingle's House of Purple Cedar is one of the best books I've ever read. Here's the cover: As is the case with Tingle&#...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Open Letter to VoWac Publishing Company

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December 10, 2014 VoWac Publishing Company P.O. Box 75 Faulkton, SD 57438-0075 info@vowac.com Dear VoWac, From your website, I see...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Concerns with McGraw Hill's "Reading Wonders" Curriculum

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Do you remember the books you used in elementary school? The ones you used for Reading? Maybe your kids are in elementary school and their R...
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Oliver Herford's THE PETER PAN ALPHABET

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A colleague in children's literature, Perry Nodelman, has been sharing his collection of images of Indians in Peter Pan books illustrate...
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Monday, December 08, 2014

Rebecca Heller's FALLING ROCK

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Sometime in November I received an email from Rebecca Heller asking if I'd review her book, Falling Rock . What little I saw of it sugge...
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Friday, December 05, 2014

"True Blood Brothers" in NBC's production of Peter Pan

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In an earlier post , I wrote about how NBC had hired a Chickasaw man to rework the "Ugg-A-Wugg" song, replacing that phrase with a...
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Thursday, December 04, 2014

Thumbs up for Cynthia Leitich Smith's FERAL CURSE

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The protagonist of Cynthia Leitich Smith's Feral Curse is named Kayla. Her parents are white. She is black. She was adopted. From Ethi...
Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Roy Boney's WE SPEAK IN SECRET

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Roy Boney's We Speak in Secret is one of many stories that will be in Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers: Volume 1 , to be published by th...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Debbie Reese (me!) on CUNY's INDEPENDENT SOURCES

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Finally had a chance to watch the segment that CUNY's Independent Sources asked me to do with them about children's books and Thank...
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How 'bout we all pan NBC's PETER PAN and Warner Bros PAN, too.

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Over the weekend, Heather (a reader of AICL) wrote to ask if I'd seen a Salon article about changes made to music and lyrics in the vers...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

TEEN SPIRIT by Francesca Lia Block

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I'll start with this: I think Francesca Lia Block likes Indians. I'm just not sure what she knows about us. I kinda think she does...
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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Francesca Lia Block apologized for Native stereotyping in WEETZIE BAT (but see update)

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Editor's note: I added "but see update" to the title of this post because after reading Block's Teen Spirit the apology ra...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Mass Media Fail(s): Describing Indian man's singing as "chants" and "yowls" and "wails"

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Yowls? Chant? Wail?!! This is a wild guess, but I wonder... When they were kids, did  Dina Capiello of the Associated Press, Andrew Kirel...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

PUKAWISS THE OUTCAST by Jay Jordan Hawke

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Pukawiss the Outcast by Jay Jordan Hawke is an unusual book. The protagonist--Joshua--is a 14 year old teen who is gay. Because his mother i...
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