Dear Teachers: Native masks are not art

Dear Teachers and Homeschooling Parents, Many art project books for use in classrooms include a section on making Native masks. One example ...

Gerald Dawavendewa's THE BUTTERFLY DANCE

Many times on AICL and in lectures, I've said that I wish I'd had Cynthia Leitich Smith's Jingle Dancer back in the early 90s wh...

Hopi Runners

For young adults who visit your library looking for information about athletes or marathon runners, consider offering them an article from a...

"I is for Indian Village"

Head on over to Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert's blog, Beyond the Mesas , and read his entry on December 16, 2009: "I is for Indian Vil...

Hopi writer, Polingaysi Qoyawayma

Reading Beyond the Mesas this morning, I see that Matt (my friend and colleague in American Indian Studies here at Illinois) wrote about P...

Beyond the Mesas

On this day, November 27, 2009, most people are out shopping. It is the day after Thanksgiving, known as "Black Friday." But did y...