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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Highly Recommended! BOOZHOO! HELLO! by Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

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  Boozhoo! Hello!  Written and illustrated by Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley  ( member  of Wasauksing First Nation) Translated by Mary Ann Corbier...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Highly Recommended: NAVAJO CODE TALKERS by Danielle C. Burbank

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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Navajo Code Talkers Written by Danielle C. Burbank (Diné) Published in 2024 Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Reviewer: Debbi...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Highly Recommended: WINGS OF AN EAGLE: THE GOLD MEDAL DREAMS OF BILLY MILLS, by Billy Mills and Donna Janell Bowman, illustrated by S. D. Nelson

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                  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED  Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills by Billy Mills (Oglala Lakota) and Donna Janel...
Monday, July 08, 2024

NOT RECOMMENDED: BACK IN THE BEFORETIME. TALES OF THE CALIFORNIA INDIANS by Jane Louise Curry

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A reader wrote to ask if I've read Back in the Beforetime: Tales of the California Indians by Jane Louise Curry.  The answer? I had not,...
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Friday, July 05, 2024

Highly Recommended: BEHIND EVERY RUG by Daniel W. Vandever and Lynne Hardy

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Those who follow my work know that I've been frustrated many times with things Scholastic does. Sometimes, though, they do a good thing....
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Saturday, June 15, 2024

Finally! I got to see myself at City Lights Book Store!

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Earlier this month, my mom, and my little sister and her husband were visiting us in California. We went to San Francisco one day. I pulled ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: THE BEE MOTHER

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Imagine an overcast, cold, windy, completely dreary early spring day. A plain brown cardboard envelope arrives from Portage & Main -- it...
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Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Press Release: Introducing Maawn Doobiigeng - the new classification system of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Libraries

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Note from Debbie: In this morning's email, I received the press release I'm sharing below. Librarians across the US are looking for ...
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Monday, May 06, 2024

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Andrea L. Rogers and Madelyn Goodnight's WHEN WE GATHER (OSTADAHLISIHA): A CHEROKEE TRIBAL FEAST

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  When We Gather (Ostadahlisiha): A Cherokee Tribal Feast  Written by Andrea L. Rogers (Citizen of the Cherokee Nation) Illustrated by Madel...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Updates to Previous Posts about Vermont Groups that Claim to be Abenaki

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On Feb 20, 2024 I shared a letter from Chief Rick O'Bomsawin, Abenaki of Odanak and Chief Michel R. Bernard, Abenaki of W8linak. In it,...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Native Readers are gonna be PSYCHED to know Arigon Starr has a new SUPER INDIAN book for us all!

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One of my most-dear memories is when I was working with a group of elementary-aged Native children in New Mexico and told them about Arigon ...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Facts in WE ARE STILL HERE: NATIVE AMERICAN TRUTHS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW are characterized as being a "negative slant on white people"

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Today (March 13, 2024) I read an article in The Gothamist that starts with this image: What you're looking at is a stack of twelve copi...
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Monday, March 04, 2024

American Indians, Alaska Native, First Nation, Native American people and the 2023 Diversity Baseline Survey

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In 2015, Lee and Low released the results of its first Diversity Baseline Survey (DBS), which is a survey to document how diverse employees ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Leaders of Abenaki Nations request Educators stop making space for specific individuals in Vermont's "Abenaki" tribes

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Update from Debbie on Feb 21: I edited the title of this blog and the second paragraph to more accurately reflect the request in the Odanak ...