One family's experience with THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE

A reader of "American Indians in Children's Literature" wrote to me, describing her daughter's experiences with The Educat...

Cooperative Children's Book Center: Books By and About American Indians

The School of Education at the University of Wisconsin is home to the Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) . At CCBC, they devote ...

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (ASAIL) began publish...

Are you reading "American Indians in Children's Literature" in Finland? Italy? According to the stats report of the blog, read...

Forrest Carter's EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE

Most people are surprised to learn that the author of The Education of Little Tree is Asa Carter, the former Klansman and speech writer for...

Critical Literacy Podcast I'm taking time this morning to listen to the Critical Literacy in Practice (CLIP) podcast. It is far easier...

INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD series by Lynne Reid Banks

The software that monitors traffic on my site includes a list of words and phrases people use that bring them to American Indians in Childre...

A Review of Ruth Bornstein's BRAVE BUNNY

[Note: Beverly Slapin at Oyate compared Indian Bunny and Brave Bunny (for background see the blog post on August 14, 2006). She sent her r...

Must-have reference books about American Indians

There are three encyclopedia's on American Indians that every school library ought to have. Each one includes a wealth of information, m...

L. Frank Baum: Author of WIZARD OF OZ books and racist editorials on American Indians

Most people know The Wizard of Oz books by L. Frank Baum, but not many know that Baum wrote scathingly racist newspaper columns advocating ...

Tribal Publishers I came across the bookstore for the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma yesterday and saw they've got several children's b...

Native Art Posters (for teachers) from the Heard Museum On the website for the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, there is an "Educatio...

NY Times, Tim Tingle and Marge Bruchac

Children's books by Native authors and illustrators rarely receive attention from mainstream papers like the New York Times. So, it was...

INDIAN BUNNY. No! Now it is BRAVE BUNNY --- And TEN LITTLE RABBITS

A reader (Amanda) wrote to me about Indian Bunny , a picture book she found in her local public library. In the story, a bunny decides he wa...

Feedback, please This request is for parents and teachers. In November I'll be at the annual conference of the National Council of Teach...

Arigon Starr

Some years ago, I worked with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), reviewing and selecting proposals for their annual confere...

"Indian Festival" Leaving Pennsylvania today, after spending a few days in beautiful country in the NW corner, where a small town ...

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve: "...so little is known about the women."

In Completing the Circle , Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve says "so little is known about the women." In history textbooks, and in chi...