[Young Adult and Children's Services Discussion List] Native American representation in Middle grade fiction

[Alyssa Taft]

I also LOVED this book! Highly, highly recommend.

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 4:04 PM Rashaa Al-Sasah <rashaa at wwpl.org> wrote:

> Hello all,
> At the last Yart meeting, we discussed children thinking that Native
> Americans and Indigenous people are a thing of the past. I recently
> finished *I can make this promise *a middle-grade #ownvoices novel by
> Christina Day and it is a super important and wonderful book and I highly
> recommend it for your collections.
>
> This is slightly spoilery for the book but I digress .....it really
> highlighted for me that one of the reasons that kids think that they are a
> thing of the past is that the US government has actively participated in
> cultural genocide by sending children off to boarding school and then up
> until 1978 when children were forcibly taken from parents and put into
> foster care.  So its no wonder that children are feeling the effects of
> this now and of course our schools will not highlight this less than ideal
> history. So I think that us bolstering our collections with Native own
> voices and resources is even more important.
>
> So if anyone finds more books please share!
>
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Alyssa Taft, MLIS
Teen Librarian
Cranston Public Library
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