In selecting books for children and young adults, many people default to things they read when they were kids themselves. Even after decades of terrific bks by Native and POC, the body of what gets recommended is still very white. Many of those defaulted-to bks are racist.

If you're looking for books that do not denigrate, stereotype, or misrepresent Native peoples, there are lists in the Best Books tab at American Indians in Children's Literature. …https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/p/best-books.html

You have to do more than read those books, though! The characters and story lines in them may not fit your expectation of what bks about "Indians" should be like! You may set the book aside because it doesn't match what you think you know about us.

To see us for who we are you have to look critically, and talk with others, about problems in those books you default to... like Little House on the Prairie. Or Island of the Blue Dolphins. Or Julie of the Wolves. It isn't only old bks that are problematic.

Problematic depictions get recycled when writers uncritically insert those problematic books in the books they write, today. If you want to see some analysis of classics and new books that have those problems, you'll find many at American Indians in Children's Literature.

There is a Not Recommended label: …https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/search/label/not%20recommended