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Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) Profile picture
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Jan 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Parents, Teachers, and Librarians!

You can now put a book on your shelves that is about the Trail of Tears and is written by a Cherokee writer!

#TrailOfTears in #CherokeeVoice. That is outstanding! It is beyond #OwnVoices in a way that is necessary. @diversebooks Image
The author of MARY AND THE TRAIL OF TEARS: A CHEROKEE REMOVAL SURVIVAL STORY is @AndreaLRogers. Take a look at this article from the Tahlequah Daily Press: tahlequahdailypress.com/community/arts…
WorldCat tells me there are 87 juvenile fiction titles on the Trail of Tears. I'd have to spend some time looking up these writers, but my guess is that none of them are Cherokee.
Tim Tingle's HOW I BECAME A GHOST: A CHOCTAW TRAIL OF TEARS STORY came up in my search. It, too, is #OwnVoices but specifically, #ChoctawVoice. Tingle is Choctaw. His book is about Choctaws. It came out a few years ago. Do you have it yet? If not, order it today. @tim_tingle

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Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) Profile picture
Mar 22, 2022
1) People hold stereotypical (romantic or derogatory) views of Native people. Those with the romantic stereotype think they are "honoring" us with their mascots.

Case in point is the Port Neches-Groves, who are in the news for their performance at Disney World.
2) There are studies by researchers who document the harm done by these mascots. Here's one: indianmascots.com/fryberg--web-p…

There are letters from Native organizations, asking schools to stop. In some states, Native ppl have tried to get state legislatures to pass laws abt mascots.
3) And yet, mascot-love persists. It may be due to the pervasive imagery in beloved children's books that people hold dear and can't let go of.... like these: ImageImageImage
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Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) Profile picture
Nov 5, 2021
1) If you follow me, I assume you want to revisit what you were taught about Native peoples. That includes taking a critical look at ways we're depicted in children's books. It may include rejecting favorites and reaching for ones that actually help your child know who we are!
2) It is terrific when corporations with high visibility (and therefore power) do right by Native and non-Native children. One example: @nickjr. Take a look at this! Great books that I hope you'll buy and ask for at the library.
3) All the books they recommend are ones I've recommended at American Indians in Children's Literature. If you want more books (at various grade levels) you can start here: …ansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/p/best-books.h…
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Apr 28, 2021
Just bought a copy of Dr. Leilani Sabzalian's (@leilanisabz) new book to help me analyze children/teen books about Sacagawea.
It includes lesson plans that push against the ways the Lewis and Clark expedition is presented in textbooks.

It decenters Eurocentric perspectives.

It incorporates Indigenous perspectives and connects dots from history to present day issues and events.
When @JeanMendoza2016 and I worked on AN INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE US FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, we learned a lot about Zebulon Pike.

Pike's Peak is named after him, but what is not generally known: he was gathering information for military invasion.

So were Lewis and Clark.
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Oct 3, 2020
Started to watch Professor Junko Yokota's "Interpretive and Hidden Controversies in Literature for Children." She begins with "Why are there controversies?" Two of 3 items on that slide are about changes (in perceptions and in norms).
Ah! Second slide is about LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE!
Dr. Yokota walks us through sites where controversy takes place: in the words of a book, in the illustration, in the translation (choices a translator makes) of a bk from one language to another... and next slide is about bk creators. Her example is Sherman Alexie and...
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Oct 3, 2020
1) This photo is from an online page @studiesweekly created. If your district uses materials Studies Weekly creates, children are being mis-educated.

I'll do a brief analysis in this thread. This is only one item in a pages-long unit that is full of errors and bias.
2) "What was" is past tense. That's error #1.

Use of past tense verbs suggests we no longer exist.
3) "by American Indians" suggests that Native ppls of the hundreds of Native Nations speak a single language. That's error #2.

Consider the word "papoose." Tho it is often used as *the* Native word for baby, it is the word in one language.

Here's "read" in many languages: A poster from the Tulsa City-County Library that shows the w
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Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) Profile picture
Sep 29, 2020
1) Are you going to a bookstore today? Take a look at children/young adult bk covers -- of bks by Native writers! pinterest.com/dreesenambe/am…

When you tell someone abt one of the bks, say something like "Louise Erdrich is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians."
2) When you use a sentence like that, your use of the word "is" places us in the present, which is good!

Too many ppl don't realize we're still here. As first ppls of this continent, that mistaken idea that we don't exist is especially troubling. We weren't "wiped out."
3) And when you use a sentence that names an author's citizenship (see tweet 1), you are sharing information that tells others that we have governments.

We've got unique cultures specific to our nations but we are nations, first and foremost! That's why there are treaties.
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