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Researching American Indian Children's Literature

From American Indian Fairy Tales, Chicago: P.F. Volland Company,1921.
image From American Indian Fairy Tales

BOOKS

Books in our collections may be found by LC Subject Heading searches in the UW Libraries catalog for:

American Literature Indian Authors
Indians in literature
Indian Children North America
Indians Of North America Juvenile Drama
Indians Of North America Juvenile Fiction
Indians Of North America Juvenile Literature
Indians of North America -- Literary collections
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
and by a Keyword search for "American Indian Children's and Young Adult Material"

The following are particularly good in discussing this genre of Children's Literature:

THROUGH INDIAN EYES: THE NATIVE EXPERIENCE IN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
[edited] by Beverly Slapin and Doris Seale (Santee Cree)
website: http://www.oyate.org/aboutus.html
Philadelphia, Pa. ; Gabriola Island, B.C. : New Society Publishers, c1992
Curriculum Mat Stacks, Odegaard Stacks, Z1209.2.U5 T48 1992
Los Angeles, Calif : American Indian Studies Center, University of California, c1998
Bothell/CCC Curriculum, E77.4 .T63 1998

AMERICAN INDIAN STEREOTYPES IN THE WORLD OF CHILDREN: A READER AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Arlene Hirschfelder, Paulette Fairbanks Molin (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe from the White Earth Reservation) and Yvonne Wakin(Cherokee/Arab)
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1982
Odegaard Stacks, SpecColl Childrens,Suzzallo/Allen Stacks E98.P99 H57 1982
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999
Bothell/CCC Stacks, Suzzallo/Allen Stacks, Tacoma Stacks E98.P99 H57 1999

HANDBOOK of NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
William C. Sturtevant, general editor. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
Reference Stacks of Odegaard, Suzzallo Reference, Bothell and Tacoma E77 .H25

 

ARTICLES

MLA international bibliography of books and articles on the modern languages and literatures - UW restricted - Online version contains bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore, and includes coverage from 1963 to the present. Provides access to scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series; also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.

ERIC - Web version - UW restricted
Consists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals. Here you can find articles about the use of American Indian materials in the classroom.

Dissertation Abstracts - UW restricted
Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester; represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Current dissertations offer some of the latest research on this topic.
Use the keywords "Children's Literature" and "Indian" or "Native American." Theses and dissertations not available through the Orbis/Cascade Alliance are requestable from UWorld Express for all current UW students, faculty and staff. Please allow time for the materials to be requested for you. A 24-page preview is available online for all material submitted since 1997.

WEBSITES

American Indian Higher Education Consortium Virtual Library
"The AIHEC Virtual Library is a collection of online resources by, for, and about the indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific. You can browse the resources by tribe, by subject, or by geographic location."

American Indian Library Association
This is a comprehensive site indexing bibliographies, curriculum, international library resources, reviews, publications, reports, institutes, and conferences.

Cradleboard Teaching Project
Cradleboard provides both accurate curriculum and connectivity to Native American culture through Cradleboard core curriculum units, which include "tests, lesson plans, activities, suggested resources, references, and, where applicable, music and/or video excerpts which teachers can use to augment instruction.".

A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, FOR K-12
The National Museum of Natural History, Outreach Office of the Department of Anthropology provides an ongoing, comprehensive, annotated bibliography on American Indians for elementary and secondary students.

Honouring Words
This is the International Indigenous Authors Celebration Tour website with interviews, author biographies, and book reviews.

Kegedonce Press
Kegedonce is a Canadian publisher specializing in Aboriginal trade books, "committed to the development, promotion, and publication of the work of Indigenous writers internationally."

Native American Authors
This Internet Public Library site is "provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites."

Native American Sites
Lisa Mitten's "goal is to facilitate communication among Native peoples and between Indians and non-Indians by providing access to home pages of Native American Nations and organizations, and to other sites that provide solid information about American Indians."

Native Americans: A Resource List for Teaching to or about Native Americans
Developed by Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, this page contains recommended Children's Books and Young Adult Literature, resources about Native Americans in Children's Literature, professional resources, videos and music.

NativeWeb
Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World; links to the resources page for Literature.

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online
"This site was conceived with a very particular aim: to make the writing of modern Native American authors, particularly the poets, both more visible and more widely available." Lists authors, tribal affiliations, awards, book reviews, bibliographies, links to online journals, etc.

True American Indian Stories
Links to full-text American Indian stories available online.


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