Jan Brett and Sherman Alexie

Today is December 31, 2007. We’re ending one year and starting another. Looking over the NY Times list of best selling children’s books, I ...

"Retired bishop apologizes for mistreating the Miwoks"

On December 26, 2007, the Marin Independent Journal ran a story about what I view as an important moment in the history of relationships be...

Christians and Indians: Comenius and Alexie

Over on the email discussion list for YALSA-BK (an ALA listserv for people who work with young adult literature), there is a discussion goin...

A reader's response to MIKO KINGS

Last week I posted a link to an article about LeAnne Howe's Miko Kings . That post generated this comment from Jean Mendoza: The arti...

VISIONMAKER VIDEO

Pointing you, today, to an excellent source for videos (VHS and DVD) by and about American Indians. That source is VisionMaker Video , a ser...

Article re LeAnne Howe's MIKO KINGS

Some weeks back I wrote about Miko Kings , a new novel written by Choctaw author, LeAnne Howe. Inside Illinois ran a story about it in Nove...

An Open Letter to Marion Boyars Publishers (London)

In October, I received an email from a pre-service student in Nebraska. She asked me to help her get word out about a book she came across ...

An Open Letter to Jan Brett

Below is a letter to Jan Brett regarding her new book Three Snow Bears . The letter is written by Theresa Seidel. ____________________ An Op...

Devon A. Mihesuah's AMERICAN INDIANS: STEREOTYPES & REALITIES

Published in 1996, Mihesuah's book, American Indians: Stereotypes & Realities has, fortunately, been reprinted several times. Study...

Beginnings

Below is my first post to this blog, dated May 8, 2006. In preparing an article about my work as a blogger, I am revisiting--in my memory an...

Ann Turner's SITTING BULL REMEMBERS

[This review may not be published elsewhere without written permission of Beverly Slapin of Oyate.] -------------------- Turner, Ann, Sittin...

News: Van Camp's WELCOME SONG FOR BABY

Richard Van Camp's Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns will be given to every newborn baby born in British Columbia in 2008. ...

Graham Greene's comment on stereotypes/appropriation

Graham Greene is Oneida, and is, perhaps, the most recognizable Native actor in film and TV today. In this clip I found on YouTube, he offer...

Out of Print: LESS THAN HALF, MORE THAN WHOLE

Sadly, another excellent book about American Indians is out of print... Michael Lacapa's Less Than Half, More Than Whole . You can get...

Richard Van Camp's WELCOME SONG FOR BABY: A LULLABY FOR NEWBORNS

Several months ago, I learned from Richard Van Camp that he had a board book in the works. It is out now, but you can't get it from Orca...

Alexie and Gayle Ross on "Best of our Knowledge"

When Ten Little Indians came out in 2004, Alexie did an interview with Wisconsin's Public Radio program "To the Best of our Knowle...

Alexie on Charlie Rose, 1998

Knowing teachers spend a fair amount of time developing background to teach certain novels, I'm providing this interview of Sherman Alex...

Interview with Richard Van Camp

More than once on this blog, I've written about Richard Van Camp's books for children and young adults. Two are picture books: A Man...

"I" is for Inclusion

At their website, the American Indian Library Association recently uploaded "I is for Inclusion." Prepared by Naomi Caldwell, Ga...

Cynthia Leitich Smith: LOC Webcast

Wondering if there were any videos on-line of Cynthia Leitich Smith, I did a bit of web searching and found one! In 2002, she was speaking a...

Alexie on YouTube re DIARY

This is a must-view clip on YouTube. It was filmed November 3rd, when Alexie was in Texas for the Texas Book Festival. He was on a panel of ...

A Native Astronaut & A Native Writer

I imagine the man who drive my cab in NYC Thursday night would be surprised to know that Commander John Herrington, who flew on the space sh...

Where is your copy of THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE?

That isn’t a trick question, but it is an important one. Where does your library shelve its copy of Forrest (Asa) Carter’s The Education of ...

Thanksgiving in YA National Book Award

Sherman Alexie won the National Book Award last night, for his book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian . There's a lot in h...