Phil Robertson: "The Almighty gave us this." Debbie Reese: "No. He didn't."
In the many excellent critiques of Phil Robertson's comments about gays and African Americans, I haven't seen anything that pushes ...
Erin Hollingsworth's review of THE GIANT BEAR: AN INUIT FOLKTALE
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 201...
WILD BERRIES by Julie Flett
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 at ...
"Mom, when Jesus was born, where were all the women?" Marcie Rendon's response is HANNAH: THE MIDWIFE WHO DELIVERED JESUS
Marcie Rendon's daughters were raised in a matriarchal home. On Christmas Eve, 1990, one of her daughters asked her "Mom, when Jesu...
2013 Virginia Mathews Scholarship Awarded to Debbie Reese
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...
Online Video: INJUNUITY - TWO SPIRIT
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...
Art Coulson's THE CREATOR'S GAME: A STORY OF BAAGA'ADOWE/LACROSSE
Wow! I just blazed through Art Coulson's The Creator's Game: A Story of Baaga'adowe/Lacrosse. Coulson has a way with words. Eng...
Taylor (5th grader): "Do you mean all those Thanksgiving worksheets we had to color every year with all those smiling Indians were wrong?"
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 speech...
ORIGINAL LOCAL: INDIGENOUS FOODS, STORIES, AND RECIPES FROM THE UPPER MIDWEST, by Heid E. Erdrich
Heid Erdrich's Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest is a treat! I mean that literally (reading ...
Marcie Rendon's POWWOW SUMMER: A FAMILY CELEBRATES THE CIRCLE OF LIFE (2013)
Back in the 1990s when I started graduate school, I read Marcie Rendon's Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life. Origin...
Looking for Children's Books about Thanksgiving? (Part 1)
(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 Pilgr...
DVD Review: CANES OF POWER
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"
School Library Journal has a "Focus On" series in its Collection Development category. Each "Focus On" is devoted to a s...
Trailer for FREE BIRDS
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...
Presidential Proclamation: National Native American Heritage Month, 2013
Let me preface my sharing of President Obama's proclamation by saying (again) that I don't think teachings about any particular gro...
Encounter in an antique store: "We pay taxes!"
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 m...
Vanity Fair's "Favorite" Halloween Costumes
Having my coffee this morning, my twitter feed included a link to a Vanity Fair slideshow of "favorite" costumes at an event tha...
"Benny's Wigwam" by Mrs. Mary Catherine Lee
In 1883, D. Lothrop & Company published a book called Wide Awake Pleasure Book consisting of several volumes of a children's magazi...
