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Book Club might be a misnomer, because the NDN Girls Book Club involves more than talking about books. This upstart literary nonprofit — run by Native women under the age of 25 who are also ...
As more Native-authored books enter the market, children have more opportunity to experience diverse and fact-based representations of Native culture. “Today, parents can reach for books by ...
The traditional and modern Native literature genres showcased in A Listening Wind include stories that speakers perceive to be in the past (or "fixed"), genres that have developed alongside these ...
'Not a badge of honor': how book bans affect Indigenous literature : Code Switch For some authors, finding their book on a "banned" list can feel almost like an accolade, putting them right there ...
Children often learn about indigenous cultures from history, but it's just as important to know that Native American Indian cultures are still alive and strong in the modern-day, too. That's why I ...
OUR apology for grouping together so many valuable works on native American literature must be the extraordinary rapidity with which such productions are accumulating. Unless dealt with in this ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday, a prominent figure in Native American literature, has passed away at his home in New Mexico.
Potawatomi Library in Crandon continues to feature several books on Native American life that have been banned elsewhere.
In 1969, Momaday became the first Native American to win the fiction Pulitzer, and his novel helped launch a generation of authors, including Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch and Louise Erdrich.