New book: SIMON J. ORTIZ: A POETIC LEGACY OF INDIGENOUS CONTINUANCE

Today's post is about a new book, Simon J. Ortiz: A Poetic Legacy of Indigenous Continuance . I bought a copy last week... Daughter Liz ...

Bad Indians, a poem by Ryan Red Corn

This is an awesome video. Use it with students in high school English classes, film, social studies, social justice courses... [Note: If yo...

Carolyn Dunn on COYOTE SPEAKS

As readers of American Indians in Children's Literature know, I have strong feelings about retellings of Native story, especially when ...

Patricia Wrede's THE THIRTEENTH CHILD

I am getting a lot of email asking if I've read Wrede's new book, The Thirteenth Child . People are sending me links to discussions...

Carved Indian statue at welcome rest area, I80, PA

I'm on the road, en route to get my daughter from end-of-year at college. Yesterday, I entered Pennsylvania and stopped at the 'Welc...

Missy Whiteman's Video: Indigenous Holocaust

Stunning video and commentary about boarding schools... Created by Missy Whiteman, titled Indigenous Holocaust . If you teach Shirley Sterli...

Brianne Grant's thesis on Education in YA Lit

Back on July 9th, 2007 , I blogged about Brianne Grant's article "Opening the Cache of Canadian Secrets: The Residential School Exp...

Barbara Cooney's MISS RUMPHIUS

Though it is much loved and winner of an American Book Award, every time I think of Barbara Cooney's Miss Rumphius , the image that I re...