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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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.

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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/...

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

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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...

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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

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✨ 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

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

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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

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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

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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): 🧵

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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

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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.

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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-...

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

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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...

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Looking past Super Bowl Sunday, plan to introduce YA readers to books about modern Native teens in KC. My novels RAIN IS NOT MY INDIAN NAME, HARVEST HOUSE, and HEARTS UNBROKEN are set in its outskirts. More broadly, consider the MG novel MASCOT by Charles Waters & Traci Sorell. #nativeamerican

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2024 American Indian Literature Award Medal Acceptance: Jonathan Nelson americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/02/2024...

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2024 American Indian Literature Award Medal Acceptance: Kim Rogers americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024...

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2024 American Indian Literature Award Medal Acceptance: Laurel Goodluck Click thru and read Laurel's remarks! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024...

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2024 American Indian Literature Award Medal Acceptance: Christine Day americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024...

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2024 American Indian Literature Award Medal Acceptance: Traci Sorell americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024...

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2024 American Indian Literature Award Medal Acceptance: Arigon Starr americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024...

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@heideerdrich.bsky.social did you see this:

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I am pleased to publish acceptance speeches given by Native writers who won American Indian Youth Literature Awards. Here's the one Byron Graves gave. americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024...

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Angeline Bouley and Eric Gansworth's books on Saturday Night Live set! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/ange...

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@shaun505.bsky.social - big news today! CHOOCH HELPED won the Caldecott Medal. Author is Andrea L. Rogers; illustrator is Rebecca Lee Kunz. Both are citizens of Cherokee Nation. americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/choo...

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The 2025 Caldecott Medal goes to Chooch Helped #alayma

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Honored and grateful! The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) Children's Literature Lecture is an annual event featuring an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children’s literature. Author Cynthia Leitich Smith will deliver the 2026 ALSC Children’s Literature Lecture.

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An immediate post about CHOOCH HELPED winning the 2025 Caldecott Medal! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/choo...

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HUGE congratulations to Native people whose work was recognized at the American Library Association's Youth Media Awards ceremony this morning! I absolutely adore CHOOCH HELPED by Andrea L. Rogers. Illustrated by Rebecca Lee Kunz! Their book won the Caldecott Medal.

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