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I see that the University of Illinois is–finally–retiring its octogenarian mascot, Chief Illiniwek. If you need to be convinced of how this is related to children’s literature, take a look at some of Debbie Reese‘s work, which includes a Horn Book article from 1998 that can be found here.
>Hell with the Chief
February 20, 2007 By 1 Comment


>Wonderful essay. I’ll add it to the mental list of resources I refer to when evaluating books for my library’s collection.
Another good resource I’ve been using for years is Lisa Mitten’s “I Is Not for Indian”
http://www.nativeculturelinks.com/ailabib.htm
Also
and http://www.oyate.org