"wild Indians" in Dickens' DAVID COPPERFIELD

On our road trip last weekend we listened to David Copperfield (audio book). I enjoyed it more than I expected, but noted Dickens' use o...

American Indians and "Double Jeopardy!" (yeah, the game show)

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) publishes a blog that is loaded with terrific information. In January, ...

Leo Politi's LITTLE LEO

As I worked on my review essay about Leo Politi's Song of the Swallows , I kept recalling that somewhere, I'd seen something about a...

"Teaching Children about American Indians" - U Wisconsin, Eau Claire

What are you doing on Friday, February 25th? If you're in the Eau Claire area, I'm giving a lecture and workshop on "Teaching C...

Indians in Leo Politi's SONG OF THE SWALLOWS

Among the Caldecott Medal books I studied for my presentation at the Children's Literature Symposium at Florida State University-Saras...

Robert Lawson's "Indians--tame ones" and slaves in Minnesota

This weekend at the Children's Literature Symposium at Florida State University-Sarasota, I'll be giving a talk about the illustrat...

"Kossa Indian Dancers"

Would you go to a service in a synagogue, mosque, church, or temple, study the attire, movements, music, and words of the people there, and ...