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

[Lee-Ann Galli]

I finished This Place: 150 years retold. It does focus more on Canada, but it a nice time line that starts each section with a little introduction of what’s going on historically, and moves up through to modern day and beyond. There is a bibliography as well.

From: yart-bounces at listserve.ri.gov <yart-bounces at listserve.ri.gov> On Behalf Of Alyssa Taft
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Subject: Re: [Young Adult and Children's Services Discussion List] Native American representation in Middle grade fiction

I also LOVED this book! Highly, highly recommend.

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