New book: SIMON J. ORTIZ: A POETIC LEGACY OF INDIGENOUS CONTINUANCE

New book: SIMON J. ORTIZ: A POETIC LEGACY OF INDIGENOUS CONTINUANCE

Today's post is about a new book, Simon J. Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance . I bought a copy last week... Daughter Liz ...
Bad Indians, a poem by Ryan Red Corn

Bad Indians, a poem by Ryan Red Corn

This is an awesome video. Use it with students in high school English classes, film, social studies, social justice courses... [Note: If yo...
Carolyn Dunn on COYOTE SPEAKS

Carolyn Dunn on COYOTE SPEAKS

As readers of American Indians in Children's Literature know, I have strong feelings about retellings of Native story, especially when ...
Patricia Wrede's THE THIRTEENTH CHILD

Patricia Wrede's THE THIRTEENTH CHILD

I am getting a lot of email asking if I've read Wrede's new book, The Thirteenth Child . People are sending me links to discussions...
Carved Indian statue at welcome rest area, I80, PA

Carved Indian statue at welcome rest area, I80, PA

I'm on the road, en route to get my daughter from end-of-year at college. Yesterday, I entered Pennsylvania and stopped at the 'Welc...
Missy Whiteman's Video: Indigenous Holocaust

Missy Whiteman's Video: Indigenous Holocaust

Stunning video and commentary about boarding schools... Created by Missy Whiteman, titled Indigenous Holocaust . If you teach Shirley Sterli...
Brianne Grant's thesis on Education in YA Lit

Brianne Grant's thesis on Education in YA Lit

Back on July 9th, 2007 , I blogged about Brianne Grant's article "Opening the Cache of Canadian Secrets: The Residential School Exp...
Barbara Cooney's MISS RUMPHIUS

Barbara Cooney's MISS RUMPHIUS

Though it is much loved and winner of an American Book Award, every time I think of Barbara Cooney's Miss Rumphius , the image that I re...