Native Americans: Lesson Plans

With Thanksgiving approaching, teachers across the country are getting ready to teach children about Native Americans. Unfortunately, far to...

Tintin in America

Yesterday's assignment in my class at UIUC was for each student to bring a children's book about American Indians to class. I'll...

American Indian Library Association’s “American Indian Youth Literature Award” For many years, individuals with the American Indian Li...

THEY WERE STRONG AND GOOD, Review by Beverly Slapin

[Note: Yesterday’s post (written by Jean Mendoza) was about a children's book called They Were Strong and Good . Today, you can read Bev...

Jean Mendoza: Reflections on THEY WERE STRONG AND GOOD

[Note: Today’s post is by Jean Mendoza, professor in Early Childhood Education at Millikin University in Decatur , Illinois . Jean and I...

LeAnne Howe, American Indian Studies at UIUC Since the late 1980s, Native American students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaig...