Congratulations to Muscogee (Creek) author, Cynthia Leitich Smith

Congratulations to Muscogee (Creek) author, Cynthia Leitich Smith

Good news! The trade and library editions of Jingle Dancer are going into another printing! Written by Muscogee (Creek) author, Cynthia Lei...
Diane Chen (SLJ) review of Jennifer Denetdale's

Diane Chen (SLJ) review of Jennifer Denetdale's

Pointing you, today, to Diane Chen's post about Jennifer Denetdale's book, The Long Walk: The Forced Navajo Exile . Diane's blog...
About Paul Goble and his books...

About Paul Goble and his books...

I get a lot of questions about Paul Goble. Are his books accurate? Reliable? I have not studied them myself, but can refer you to the works ...
Brits and Americans, Imagining Indians

Brits and Americans, Imagining Indians

This morning, I read an article in the Telegrap h about the "Latitude Festival," an annual music festival that takes place in Su...
News about TWILIGHT

News about TWILIGHT

Warning: This will be a snarky post. Meyer has found another way to suck. Obviously, my use of the word "suck" has multiple meanin...
Intersections: Alice Walker, playing Indian, and real Indians

Intersections: Alice Walker, playing Indian, and real Indians

Searching for information about Bill Wahpepah, a Kickapoo and Sauk and Fox man who worked at the Native American Survival School in the Bay...
Book signing: Simon Ortiz and Evelina Zuni Lucero

Book signing: Simon Ortiz and Evelina Zuni Lucero

If you can, head for downtown Santa Fe next Tuesday. At 3:00, Simon Ortiz and Evelina Zuni Lucero will be at the Museum of Contemporary Art...
"Moccasins and Microphones" Poetry Performance, Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team

"Moccasins and Microphones" Poetry Performance, Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team

Back in November, 2008, NewsHour on PBS featured a handful of high school poets from Santa Fe Indian School. They are in the Spoken Word Cl...
Quileute Response to TWILIGHT

Quileute Response to TWILIGHT

Pasting below an extended excerpt from a New York Post article. Called " Vampire Vacation: Twilight Fans Turn a Quiet Indian Reservati...
"Do you know what a bow and arrow is?"

"Do you know what a bow and arrow is?"

I read a newspaper article this morning about a tutoring program in San Jose that helps refugees assimilate. A family from Myanmar is the fo...
Gloria Whelan's AFTER THE TRAIN

Gloria Whelan's AFTER THE TRAIN

Directing you, today, to Rebecca Rabinowitz's " Source fiction is no excuse for racism ." Her essay is about Gloria Whelan...
Tanya Landman and Can't-be-relied-on reviews

Tanya Landman and Can't-be-relied-on reviews

Last year I read a book filled with errors and bias. I wrote about it here and posted Beverly Slapin's review , and did a follow-up a ...
Indians in LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS

Indians in LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS

Over on the child_lit listserv, a subscriber posted a link to an online article in The Weekly Standard . Titled " Picture Perfect ,...
Response to HANK THE COWDOG

Response to HANK THE COWDOG

Betsy McEntarffer, a regular reader of American Indians in Children's Literature submitted a comment to my post about Hank the Cowdog ....