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Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) Profile picture
@debreese
Sep 28, 2020 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
1) As you plan for Indigenous Peoples' Day, get a copy of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, for Young People. @BeaconPressBks published it; @JeanMendoza2016 and I did the young adult adaptation of it from @rdunbaro's original text. Book cover of An Indigenous...
2) Dr. Natalie Martinez did several outstanding lesson plans for the book, including one that ties into chapter 10 (Indigenous Action, Indigenous Rights). As the screen cap shows, "History of Indigenous Peoples' Day" beacon.org/assets/clientp… is written specifically for teachers! Screen capture of the first...Image
3) Though Dunbar-Ortiz's original text and our adaptation have the word "history" in the title, both include information about Native peoples of the present day.

I did a thread yesterday about prepping for Indigenous Peoples' Day (Oct 12):
4) But it is also important that you bring Native people, stories, books into your classroom and library and home (if you're homeschooling) year-round! Native people are Native every day. Don't limit our existence to a day, or a month.
5) A lot (most, maybe) of what you know (or think you know) is shaped by not-Native people who wrote or made films about Native people. There's a lot to unlearn.

With so much taking place online, you have many options.
6) You can, for example, learn from Joy Harjo and Luci Tapahonso by watching this video about the launch of Harjo's Norton Anthology. Poems in "When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through" can be used in high school classes. facebook.com/watch/live/?v=… Cover of WHEN THE LIGHT OF ...
7) A Native scholar that I've learned a lot from is Dr. Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. She's Dakota. @The_Red_Nation is currently doing a podcast series organized with the hashtag, #NativeReads. Episode 8 is a video podcast. I'm going to watch it today.
8) There are professional associations with resources you can use (and join), like the American Indian Library Association. ailanet.org
9) And, Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. It publishes a journal. Some of the issues are online: sites.uwm.edu/asail/sail-pub…
10) And please subscribe to American Indians in Children's Literature! @JeanMendoza2016 and I do analyses of children's books with Native content. A lot of the things from major publishers are unacceptable. We tell you why! Here's a recent post: …ansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2020/09/not-re…
11) Oh! Just saw that the ebook edition of Cynthia Leitich Smith's young adult book, HEARTS UNBROKEN, is available for 99 cents! Get it! It was the American Indian Library Association's youth lit award! Cover of HEARTS UNBROKEN by...
12) I started a new thread, today:

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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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Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) Profile picture
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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Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) Profile picture
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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Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo) Profile picture
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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