The Horn Book » Native Americans http://www.hbook.com Publications about books for children and young adults Tue, 14 May 2013 13:27:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 >Jokers to the left of me, jokers to the right http://www.hbook.com/2010/11/blogs/read-roger/jokers-to-the-left-of-me-jokers-to-the-right/ http://www.hbook.com/2010/11/blogs/read-roger/jokers-to-the-left-of-me-jokers-to-the-right/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:05:00 +0000 Roger Sutton http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=3597 >Leila pointed me to this case in Seattle of Brave New World being yanked from the curriculum for being insensitive re Native Americans. The Prez has already gotten in trouble (per usual) with Fox News for the inclusion in his new picture book of Sitting Bull (http://nation.foxnews.com/media/2010/11/15/obama-praises-indian-chief-who-killed-us-general); I’m wondering if that same spread is going [...]

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]]> >Leila pointed me to this case in Seattle of Brave New World being yanked from the curriculum for being insensitive re Native Americans. The Prez has already gotten in trouble (per usual) with Fox News for the inclusion in his new picture book of Sitting Bull (http://nation.foxnews.com/media/2010/11/15/obama-praises-indian-chief-who-killed-us-general); I’m wondering if that same spread is going to get him in trouble from progressives as well, as illustrator Loren Long chose to depict Sitting Bull as a sort of landscape, with buffalo for eyes, hills and cracked earth for nose and mouth, and some pine trees placed so they form eyebrows (and, dare I say, boogers). It’s the old one-with-nature stereotype, which wouldn’t be so bad had all of the other subjects of the book not been depicted realistically. If you’re there, Debbie Reese, what do you think?

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]]> http://www.hbook.com/2010/11/blogs/read-roger/jokers-to-the-left-of-me-jokers-to-the-right/feed/ 3 >Hell with the Chief http://www.hbook.com/2007/02/blogs/read-roger/hell-with-the-chief/ http://www.hbook.com/2007/02/blogs/read-roger/hell-with-the-chief/#comments Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:27:00 +0000 Roger Sutton http://nyad1/wp-thb/?p=2722 >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.

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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.

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