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1) Did you share @amightygirl's list of children's books about Native girls without clicking thru to see what the list includes?
The graphic that is traveling the Internet with the link shows a book by Tim Tingle and one by Louise Erdrich, which may make you think, "yay!"
The graphic that is traveling the Internet with the link shows a book by Tim Tingle and one by Louise Erdrich, which may make you think, "yay!"
2) Before you share a booklist, please click through and see what else is being recommended.
A Mighty Girl's list includes Paul Goble's THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES.
That is not a Native story. Goble made it up.
Yes, I know it won a Caldecott. But...
A Mighty Girl's list includes Paul Goble's THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES.
That is not a Native story. Goble made it up.
Yes, I know it won a Caldecott. But...
3) ... Goble thought it was perfectly fine to read or listen to Native stories and retell them, and sell them as being Native stories.
But let's be frank. Every Native book that Goble wrote is a White Man's story.
But let's be frank. Every Native book that Goble wrote is a White Man's story.
4) Goble's THE GIRL WHO LOVED WILD HORSES and the Iktomi ones, are especially problematic. @Amightygirl, please take it off your list.
5) Looking over A Mighty Girl's list of 40 books about Native girls, 18 of them are flawed.
6) A Mighty Girl first published this list in Nov of 2015. I wrote to them to ask that they take off some books. Some of them are gone from the current list. I have no idea if they did that because of my request. Hopefully, I am not the only one who wrote to them.
7) So--thanks, @amightygirl for removing flawed bks:
ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
SING DOWN THE MOON
JULIE OF THE WOLVES
There's more work to do, though, to make your current list of 40 books a list with integrity.
ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
SING DOWN THE MOON
JULIE OF THE WOLVES
There's more work to do, though, to make your current list of 40 books a list with integrity.
