News from Oyate

Earlier this week I received an email from Oyate . I'm sharing that news today. --------------------------------------- Dear Friends and...

Tomie de Paola's THE LEGEND OF THE INDIAN PAINTBRUSH

Judy Dow (Abenaki) and Doris Seale (Dakota, Cree, Abenaki) sent me this review in response to the query from Patricia O. a few weeks ago abo...

Did P.C. and Kristin Cast plagiarize?

Yesterday, I posted a rather jumbled piece about Marked , by P.C. and Kristin Cast. I titled that piece "P.C. and Kristin Cast Plagiar...

P.C. and Kristin Cast Plagiarize in MARKED

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"I is for Indian Village"

Head on over to Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert's blog, Beyond the Mesas , and read his entry on December 16, 2009: "I is for Indian Vil...

INDIAN BOYHOOD and MIDDLE FIVE - use in 1904

Two of the books on my list of recommended books are The Middle Five by Francis LaFlesche and Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman...

New cover for Erdrich's BIRCHBARK HOUSE

Each semester in my courses at Illinois, we read Louise Erdrich's Birchbark House . It's a terrific book, as are the two that follow...

Sexy Indians...

As soon I wrote the title for this post, I realized it will probably generate a lot of hits from people looking for porn...  As I said last ...

Chaske Spencer, "Sam Uley" of Twilight, visits Yale

On Tuesday, December 9, Chaske Spencer, the actor who plays Sam Uley in New Moon , visited students at Yale.  Read about his visit in Twilig...

Update: YEARS OF DUST

Jonathan Hunt at SLJ responded to my critique of Albert Marrin's Years of Dust . If you're interested in the on-going dialogue, cli...

Hopi writer, Polingaysi Qoyawayma

Reading Beyond the Mesas this morning, I see that Matt (my friend and colleague in American Indian Studies here at Illinois) wrote about P...

Albert Marrin's YEARS OF DUST: THE STORY OF THE DUST BOWL

Over on Heavy Medal, a blog at School Library Journal , I posted my concerns with Richard Peck's new book, A Season of Gifts . In the co...

Jean Mendoza's visit to La Push and Forks

My friend, Jean Mendoza, was up in La Push and Forks recently. She sent me some notes and photographs of her visit. I am featuring them toda...

Quileute elder on Quileute stories

Thanks to Miriam B. for letting me know about two newspaper articles in the Peninsula Daily News , published in Port Angeles, Washington. (F...

Chamoru Childhood

On Tuesday of this week (December 1st), I was given an astounding gift. My colleague and friend, Keith L. Camacho, came into my office and h...

American Indians in Children's Literature in TRIBAL COLLEGE JOURNAL

The Winter 2009 online issue of Tribal College Journal includes a link to American Indians in Children's Literature . The link is in an...