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[This review may not be published elsewhere without written permission of Beverly Slapin of Oyate.]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...