Anton Treuer's EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT INDIANS BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK

Anton Treuer's Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask is one of the books I think every teacher ought to hav...

Some thoughts about Native American Month and Thanksgiving

In the opening chapter of Eric Gansworth's If I Ever Get Our Of Here (2013, Arthur A. Levine Books), the main character, Lewis, is walki...

Will we ever get to the point in time where creators of children's books stop showing kids playing Indian at Thanksgiving?! Here's t...

Shuck, Kim (Tsalagi, Sauk/Fox, Polish), Rabbit Stories . Poetic Matrix Press, 2013, high school-up Rabbit (the Being) has awesome responsibi...

Editor's Note: Kim Shuck and Beverly Slapin submitted this satirical "how to" piece in response to my review of Neal Shusterma...

One of the things I love to see in a picture book about Indigenous peoples is a visual that puts the story and its teller in the present day...

Sheesh. The activities that let people figure out what their Indian name is, or what their spirit animal is, are so freaking bogus! So many ...

Decades ago--and now, too--I revel in the music of The Band. I was amongst those who went to see the film The Last Waltz. Of course, I bough...

There's a new board book out by Cree Metis artist, Julie Flett , and like her other ones, it is a winner! Like her previous works, We A...

There's a lot to like about K.V. Flynn's On The Move. As far as I know, Flynn is not Native. His main character, Callum, isn't...

Maira Kalman's Thomas Jefferson, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything got starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist. Horn Book n...

Last week, the Guardian published an article by Kathleen Hale that detailed how she had stalked a blogger who wrote a negative review of he...