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 ...
Marcie Rendon's POWWOW SUMMER: A FAMILY CELEBRATES THE CIRCLE OF LIFE (2013)
Back in the 1990s when I started graduate school, I read Marcie Rendon's Powwow Summer: A Family Celebrates the Circle of Life. Origin...
Looking for Children's Books about Thanksgiving? (Part 1)
(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...
DVD Review: CANES OF POWER
By a presidential proclamation , November is National Native American Heritage Month. A good many teachers and librarians are doing all they...
SLJ's 2013 Focus On "Resources and Kid Lit about American Indians"
School Library Journal has a "Focus On" series in its Collection Development category. Each "Focus On" is devoted to a s...
