Please see "About AICL's Year in Review for 2025." Here's the link: americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/12/abou...

“Stevenson..would like to see a “critical evaluation” of the major institutions in Canada that have supported non-Indigenous scholars, writers and thought leaders who have claimed Indigenous identities. She wonders why their stories have been "so compelling and convincing" to these institutions..”

Today @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @eff.org filed a lawsuit on behalf of non-profit advocacy groups challenging San Jose’s warrantless searches as violating the California Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches and right to privacy. www.aclunc.org/news/lawsuit...

On this seventeenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting the children’s #picturebook “How the Raven Got His Crooked Nose” by #Dena’ina mother/son team Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater. #nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #indigenous #writer verastarbard.com/2025/11/17/t...

Been out of the SCOTUS opinion analysis for a min (baby). But this Gorsuch Dissent (joined by Thomas 😮) from cert. denial in Veneno v. US, which challenged the Major Crimes Act (a fed. law that allows feds. to prosecute crimes on Indian Reservations), is worth discussing/explaining for a sec. 🧵 1/8

Another Milestone for AICL's list! This is the first time School Library Journal has featured a Native writer on its cover. Here's Angeline Boulley (enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians): americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/p/milestones...

I think this may be the first time @slj.com has featured a Native writer on the cover. If anyone can recall a previous issue with a Native writer on the cover, let me know! Thanks.

I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.

Artist Georgia O'Keeffe ignored the Indigenous presence all around her in New Mexico. Now a new exhibition at the O'Keeffe Museum draws awareness to the ongoing presence of Tewa Peoples by presenting a group exhibition of Tewa artists. www.abqjournal.com/lifestyle/ar...

How Educators Can Support Native Students www.slj.com/story/how-ed...

"Awesome" says a person with expertise in children's literature! Please click thru and sign up for the 2025-2026 webinars. Announced at mine was a new addition to the lineup: Angeline Boulley!

Free webinars by Native writers? YES! Over 15 authors and illustrators, including Andrea Rogers (author of Caldecott winner, Chooch Helped) and Michaela Goode (illustrator of Caldecott winner, We Are Water Protectors). Take a look! online.flippingbook.com/view/2526852... Tell teachers and sign up.

A look at my process when seeing a book by a writer that is unfamiliar to me americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/08/debb...

Teachers/librarians write to me looking for accurate non-fiction bks. They know that authorship matters! Today I'm pleased as can be to share my review of THE CHEROKEE: PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND HISTORY by @pollysgdaughter.bsky.social. americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/07/high...

"What if Everything We Know about Sacagawea is Wrong?" americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/07/what...

NOT RECOMMENDED: Lois Lowry's GOONEY BIRD AND THE ROOM MOTHER. Details here! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/06/not-...

Over at American Indians in Children's Literature, Jean recommends DAD, IS IT TIME TO GATHER MINT and HERRING TO HUCKLEBERRIES. Read her review and order the books! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/05/indi...

🚨 Super exciting news…the new edition of the Bluebook has a brand new rule… Rule 22 on how to cite materials from Tribal Nations!!! A long overdue and welcome development. Tribal Law scholars, we have a lot to be proud of today. Tribal Law and Tribal Nations are a little less invisible today.🫶🏽✊🏽

A new website illuminates the history of Indigenous enslavement in New England. Historians at Brown Univ. & tribal members from across the region are launching a project they hope will bring awareness to the enslavement of Indigenous people in North America. thepublicsradio.org/arts-and-cul...

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

A federal judge agreed Thursday to temporarily block the Trump administration from taking any more steps to dismantle an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the U.S. apnews.com/article/inst...

Grateful to @jaywillis.net for investigating ANOTHER children’s book slandered by the Supreme Court to find that—surprise, surprise—Neil Gorsuch is lying about what’s in it. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/pride...

Loving the NPR segment on Chooch Helped! @andrealrogers.bsky.social

A tribute to Lakota writer Joseph Marshall III and a follow-up on my previous essay on Crazy Horse and anti-colonial resistance. open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

Read the experts, @bethanyberger.bsky.social & Greg Ablavsky, on the accurate history of Native peoples and birthright citizenship 👇

All students deserve the freedom to read. We sued the Department of Defense to protect the right to learn for students on military bases around the world.

Abenaki of Odanak chief applauds defeat of NH state law that would have recognized fraudulent Abenaki tribes. For years, the Abenaki of Odanak and W8linak have denounced self-identified Abenaki "tribes" in NH and VT. The states are finally listening. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Highly Recommended: We Weave, by Vandever and Mitchell -- Diné author and illustrator! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/04/high...

How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers) will be out September 2nd and is now available for pre-order. Can’t wait for you all to read it. Shout out to teachers. This is for y’all. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/clint...

they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

✨ Today is the 25th anniversary of my first book, JINGLE DANCER, ill. by Cornelius Van Wright & Ying-Hwa Hu (HarperChildren’s, April 5, 2000). It was one of the first picture books to reflect contemporary Native people. An updated, paperback edition was released by Heartdrum in 2021. #booksky

2/2 Check out this TOC. We got @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @debreese.bsky.social, @ziibiing.com, @jessehagopian.bsky.social, @cristinapaul333.bsky.social, and more. Subscribe: rethinkingschools.org/magazine/

Ending the month with a review pearlsandrubys.slj.com/2025/03/31/r...

Spread this news. Contact your Congressperson. IMLS was created by Congress. 5Calls app has a script, or call on your own. ⬇️

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From me: ‘Navajo Code Talker links restored on DOD sites; other Native stories still missing’ Via @azcentral.com

JUST IN: Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement within the next week, a district judge in San Francisco has ruled, because they were terminated unlawfully.

Way cool info! Coming in September from Angeline Boulley is SISTERS IN THE WIND. And a prequel about Granny June!!! That's in the works, too. www.ncwlife.com/news/northwe...

Are you following/learning about boarding schools for Native kids in the US where the goal was 'kill the Indian and save the man'? Sign up for this presentation: heard.org/event/k-12-e...

I just read REZ BALL by @byrongraves.bsky.social. It was named a Whippoorwill Award honor book for 2024. Smooth interweaving of northern MN rurality, Ojibwe culture, sports, video gaming, grief, and other elements of adolescent life. #AdolLit #YALit

Bluesky may not be great for this yet. But i'm gathering reports/policies from universities, institutions, agencies on verification of #Indigenous membership/citizenship if anyone has any leads. So far, i have (and I'll add as i go): 🧵

Friends, please refrain from referencing picture books within insults, political or otherwise. Most picture books are carefully researched, wonderfully illustrated & affirm the needs of young readers. They inspire, inform & entertain. Support kids & those who create art for them. #politics #kidlit

This has been 4 years in the making at least. Nobody should be surprised this is among the first actions taken in this new administration. Nobody better think book bans are a badge of honor anymore. Nobody better say "book bans sell books." We have been warning you. This was a long time coming.

Layoffs will affect 2,600 federal employees in the Dept of Interior, 118 BIA employees, 40 BIE employees, firefighters, police, 850 IHS employees including +90 physicians, 350 nurses, 25 nurse practitioners, 20 dentists, 43 dental assistants, 85 pharmacists & 45 lab techs ictnews.org/news/abrupt-...

Haskell Indian Nations University lays off dozens of employees after federal orders lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

Trump is laying off the DOCTORS at the Indian Health Service?! A chronically underfunded agency?! Irresponsible, dangerous, & a complete disregard for the lives of Native people and the government’s treaty and trust responsibilities. “Shame on them” is inadequate. ictnews.org/news/life-or...