
Aaron Carapella's Map: NATIVE AMERICAN NATIONS - OUR OWN NAMES & LOCATIONS
Eds. note, Oct 11, 2016: See updated review: A Second Look at Aaron Carapella's Maps . Some months ago, I began to see information about...

"Native American Zodiac"
Twice within the last few weeks, people have written to ask me about the "Native American Zodiac" that is popping up on social med...

Donald F. Montileaux's TASUNKA: A LAKOTA HORSE LEGEND
One of the things I look for when reading a traditional story rooted in a Native Nation is an attribution of where the story was heard, and ...

Paul Goble's THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES (updated re Goble's identity)
Is Paul Goble's The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses one of your favorite books? Published in 1978 by Bradbury Press, it won the Caldecott Med...

Beverly Slapin reviews Joseph Bruchac's KILLER OF ENEMIES
Editor's Note: Beverly Slapin of De Colores: The Raza Experience in Books for Children , submitted this review essay of Joseph Bruchac...

Arigon Starr's ANNUMPA LUMA--CODE TALKER
Comic book fans! Keep your eyes peeled for INC Comics. INC is Indigenous Narratives Collective . First up from INC is Arigon Starr's An...

Martha Stackhouse's review of Barbara Joosse's MAMA DO YOU LOVE ME
In the spring of 2004, students in Education 493: Examining Alaska Children's Literature. The course was taught by Esther A. Ilutsik for...

Rubbing noses in Katherine Kirkpatrick's BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
Katherine Kirkpatrick's Between Two Worlds is another fail from Random House, a major publisher. Published in 2014, it is getting good r...

About the much celebrated Oregon Trail...
A couple of weeks ago, Oregon's ban on same sex marriage was struck down. I was happy about that. In my timeline on Twitter, I saw this ...

"War whoop" in Gayle Forman's IF I STAY
One of the big names right now is Gayle Forman. Her book, If I Stay , is big and gonna be a movie, too. So--I figured I ought to take a look...

AICL Stands With We Need Diverse Books and Small Publishers
Saturday morning (May 31, 2014) I woke early with a feeling of joy and excitement. Several hundred miles away from me, a group of eight men ...