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 ...

Back in the 1990s when I started graduate school, I read Marcie Rendon's Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life. Origin...

(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...

By a presidential proclamation , November is National Native American Heritage Month. A good many teachers and librarians are doing all they...

School Library Journal has a "Focus On" series in its Collection Development category. Each "Focus On" is devoted to a s...

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...

Let me preface my sharing of President Obama's proclamation by saying (again) that I don't think teachings about any particular gro...

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...

Having my coffee this morning, my twitter feed included a link to a Vanity Fair slideshow of "favorite" costumes at an event tha...