About Elizabeth Warren's Family Story about being Cherokee

Several weeks ago, the news media began to cover a story about Elizabeth Warren's claim of being Cherokee. I've followed development...

Finding, Assessing, and Celebrating Authentic Indigenous Literature

Are you going to the 2012 conference of the Pacific Northwest Library Association? If so, head over a day early for a free workshop (costs w...

Peter D. Sieruta

On March 25, 2011 on his "Collecting Children's Books" blog, Peter D. Sieruta wrote about Laura Adams Armer's Waterless M...

Children's Book Council's "CBC Diversity" hosting "It's Complicated"

The roots of Children's Book Week and the Children's Book Council goes back to 1919 , when Children's Book Week "was introd...

O'Dell's ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS, in Prezi

As regular readers of AICL know, I'm working on a Master's in Library Science at San Jose State University. This semester, I learned...

New book: THE INDIAN SCHOOL ON MAGNOLIA AVENUE

At his blog , Matt Sakiestewa Gilbert offered a sneak peak at the cover of his new book The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue , due out in t...

Jim Blasingame: "Ethnic Studies Ban Hits Tucson Hard: YA and Canon Alike Take a Hit"

[Editor's Note: A chronological list of AICL's coverage of the shut-down of the Mexican American Studies classes at Tucson Unified...

Is "Queen Chief Warhorse" Native? And who gets to decide?

Yesterday (May 2nd, 2012), Latoya Paterson of Racialicious published my post about "Queen Chief Warhorse" at her site. In it I qu...

American Indians in Common Core, Appendix B, K-1 Text Exemplars

Dear K-1 Teachers, I am writing to let you know about the ways that American Indians are presented in Appendix B of the Common Core Standard...