Fry Bread has a special place in my heart. When I’ve driven across country, Reservations are often the only safe place to stop for food. It smells like safety.
Fragile white people who cannot handle the reality of history. Feeling bad about horrible things that were done to our fellow humans is how we learn not to keep doing them. This old white lady supports books and factual history, even when it is uncomfortable.
Of course. But I’ve found that can be intervened in when teaching High School Social Studies if you do a good job. It’s why I love it better than teaching law school. It is too late for most of those students I’ve found
Fry bread was a survival food during the forced relocation. It is the food of resilience to oppression. Also damn tasty. White bread America wants to erase that they stole this land.
My book is used in high school teaching. Black history has been banned from public schools in Florida and many districts in Texas. It tells the history of several slave revolts and the women who led them in 18th NYC. If fry bread is triggering, this wd cause a heart attack
Banning a book only makes me want to read it more. BTW those women had to have been bad asses! I think Gay ppl like reading about uprisings involving the marginalized and the oppressed bc Pride began as a literal riot! Thanks for expanding my TBR list. 😃
I don’t think you can write a book about fry bread without discussing its origins and the role it played on the trail, and that might hurt fascists’ delicate feelings or force them to acknowledge history.
I went to the interwebs just now to look into this, however upon seeing a quote from some PA loon inre: “Marxist Critical Race Theory”, I had to close the page.
Johnny, I know you’re trying your best to sound intellectual by being pedantic, but you just come off as a twat. It is in fact banned in many schools. The question is - why doesn’t that concern you more than the need to make a half-assed argument just to be a prick?
🤣 Irony is the Americas didn't have "fry bread" until after 1555 when the Conquistadors of Spain brought with them the Spanish language, wheat for the flour, pigs for lard, baking powder for the leaven, cows for the milk & the recipe for "fry Bread". You're welcome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
Love this book and read it every year to my students. In Canada it is currently Indigenous Peoples Month - will pull it out when we eat fry bread hotdogs later this month.
I pick up picturebooks from time to time to see what's so scary about them. Sometimes I have to read them twice to see what people object to (Everywhere Babies? Really?) I have not yet found one that I would have hesitated to read to my kids.
This is your daily reminder that banning something does not mean it’s possible to get, it means a person or organization has forbidden its possession in a certain area. This can be a home, school, library, state, or nation.
I have no idea. It’s not my concern. My point is only saying something is not banned because you can get one where you are is disingenuous to the extreme.
but you can't find a place this book has been banned because it hasn't. there've been attempts to keep it out of some school libraries but it hasn't been.
what's disingenuous is proposing the idea that if some person doesn't allow a book in their house it's now rightfully known as a "banned book."
Next they will rename “The trail of tears” to “Long summer stroll”.
FFS! Banning these books on the basis of a very small group who don’t want to feel bad about horrible things done in the past, is crazy.
The picture book "Fry Bread: A Native American Story" has been banned or challenged in some school districts and libraries due to concerns from parents and some individuals who believe it is divisive or promotes "white guilt".
Aside #2: The history of fry-bread (which is actually - obviously not traditional diet) is as sad as so much of the history of the peoples... usually "fort food"...
Haha. I get you. Yes. After my first wife passed away, in 2009 this 100% German man, and my 2 daughters married into a marvelous Apache-Hopi/Tewa family, where all the women know how to make "bread"... haha. I especially love "tail-gate" fry-bread - w extra pato!
Why am I forced to explain to MY child WHAT FRY BREAD is!? DON'T TREAD ON ME! My white life is so hard. Next thing you know, my child may actually EAT this stuff!? What do I then say to my friends and family? Oh the embarrassment! /s
I have just looked this book up and read a selection of the verses that make it up. It's beautiful - the only explanation is that the history of Native Americans is so threatening to the MAGAphiles, they want it to disappear. This is NAZI Germany, and nobody seems able (or willing) to stop it.
It was somewhere in Louisiana several months ago. I read about on a librarian association website. I can’t find the exact citation, but it became an indelible part of one of my hauntological memory palaces.
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i hope they take u first
Looks like a WONDERFUL story to me.
#ReadBannedBooks
#ReadEverythingDamnit
It is a lovely book. I donated a copy for my friend to put into her classroom. Our children deserve a well rounded education.
It looks beautiful and now making me hungry!
Radicalism kills and solves no problem.
Yet another Ph.D holder who is entirely divorced from reality.
what's disingenuous is proposing the idea that if some person doesn't allow a book in their house it's now rightfully known as a "banned book."
it looks like a beautiful story
Talk about some snowflakes.
FFS! Banning these books on the basis of a very small group who don’t want to feel bad about horrible things done in the past, is crazy.
Aside: I LOVE fry bread...
http://boundlessreading.org/yet-another-case-study-of-opposition-to-inclusivity-fry-bread/
Can you image taking your marching orders from the Third Reich?
Baise les bâtards maléfiques