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NATIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
CULTURAL SENSITIVITY WORKSHOP
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| SELECTED NATIVE AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS |
Pawprint identifies books as culturally insensitive.Abbink, Emily. Colors of the Navajo Carolrhoda Books.
Ancona, George. Earth Daughter: Alicia of Acoma Pueblo. Macmillan.
___________. Pow Wow. Harcourt.
Anderson, Peter. Maria Martinez: Pueblo Potter. Children’s Press.
Armstrong, Jeanette. (Okanagan). How names were given. Theytus Books.
Baby Learns about Animals. (Navajo). Salina Bookshelf.
Baby Learns about Colors. (Navajo). Salina Bookshelf.
Baby Learns to Count. (Navajo). Salina Bookshelf.
Baby’s First Laugh. (Navajo). Salina Bookshelf.
Baylor, Byrd (Southwest). Hawk, I’m your Brother. Aladdin.
Begay, Shonto, The Mud Pony, Scholastic Publishing.
____________.Ma'ii and Cousin Horned Toad, Scholastic.
____________.Navajo visions and voices across the mesa. Scholastic.
____________.Strawberry Pop and Soda Crackers.
____________. The Boy who Dreamed of an Acorn.
____________. The Magic of Spider Woman
Blue, Martha. Little Prankster Girl. (Navajo).
Braine, Susan. Drumbeat? Heartbeat: A Celebration of the Powwow. Lerner Publications.
Browne, Vee (Navajo) Owl. Scholastic Books.
___________. Monster Birds. Northland.
___________. Monster Slayer: A Navajo Folktale.
Bruchac, Joseph. (Abenaki). Dog People. Fulcrum Publishing.
___________.Pushing Up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children. Dial Books.
___________. The boy who lived with bears. HarperCollins.
___________. Circle of Thanks. Bridgewater HarperCollins.
___________. and Michael Caduto. Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants Through Native American Stories and Earth Activities for Children. Fulcrum.
___________. and Michael Caduto. Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects and Recipes for Families. Fulcrum.
__________. and Michael Caduto. Keepers of the Animals Teacher's Guide: Native American Stories and Wildlife Activities for Children. Fulcrum.
___________. The Maple Thanksgiving. Celebration Press.
___________. Native American Games and Stories. Fulcrum.
___________.The Story of the Milky Way. Dial Books.
___________.A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull. Philomel/Puffin.
___________. The First Strawberries. A Cherokee Story. Dial Books.
___________. The Great Ball Game: A Muskogee Tale. Dial Books.
___________. (Cherokee). The Milky Way.
___________. Crazy Horse’s Vision. Lee and Low Books.
___________.Many Nations: An Alphabet of Native America. Northland.
___________. How the Chipmunk Got his Stripes: A Tale of Bragging and Teasing. Puffin.
___________.The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet: Native American Poems of the Land. Puffin.
___________.Turtle’s Race with Beaver: A Traditional Seneca Story. Dial Books.
___________. Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: Native American Year of Moons. Puffin.
___________. Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places. Voyager.
Buchanan, Ken. This House is Made of Mud. Northland. (Sonoran/Southwest/bilingual).
Buckley, Ray. Christmas Mocassins. Abingdon Press.
_________. The Give-way: A Christmas Story. Abingdon Press.
Caduto, Michael and Bruchac, Joseph McDermott (Southwest). Coyote: Trickster Tales.
Carlson, Laurie. More than Mocassins: A Kid's Activity Guide to Traditional North American Indian Life. Chicago Review Press.
Chanin, Michael. The Chief’s Blanket. H.J. Kramer.
Clark, Ann Nolan. Who wants to be a Prarie Dog? (Navajo).
________. Little Boy with Three Names. Kiva.
Clinton, Verna. Ashkii's Journey. (Navajo). Salina Bookshelf.
Cohen, Caron Lee. The Mud Pony (Illustrated by Shonto Begay). Scholastic.
Cohlene, Terri (Navajo). Turquoise Boy: A Navajo Legend. Watermill Press.
Crowder, Jack (Navajo). Haskie Runs Away.
Cuevas, Lou (Apache). Apache legends : songs of the Wind Dancer. Naturegraph Publilishers.
Cuevas, Lou (Apache). In the valley of the ancients: a Book of Native American Legends. Petroglyph National Monument.
Cushing, Frank Hamilton. Zuni Coyote Tales. University of Arizona Press.
De Montano, Marty Kriepe. Coyote in Love with a Star. (Navajo)
DePaola, Tomie. Legend of the Indian Paintbrush. Puffin. (Great Plains).
Dodge, Nanabah Chee (Navajo). Morning Arrow.
Dominic, Gloria. Sunflower’s Promise: A Zuni Legend.
Dwyer, Mindy. (Northwest). Coyote in Love. Alaska Northwest Books.
Ekkehart, Malotki. The Magic Hummingbird: A Hopi Folktale. Kiva.
Emery, Nedra Day & Night. (Navajo). Salina Bookshelf.
Emery, Nedra. Turkey & the Giant. (Navajo). Salina Bookshelf.
Enochs, James Bryon. Little Man’s Family. Kiva.
Erdrich, Louise. Grandmother's Pigeon. Hyperion Books.
___________. The Range Eternal. Hyperion.
Esbensen, Barbara Juster. The Star Maiden: An Ojibway Tale. Little Brown & Company.
Ferguson, Plain (Chippewa). Grandfather Drum. Pemmican Publications.
Flanagan, Alice. Zunis. Children’s Press.
Gaines, Richard M. The Apaches. Checkerboard Library.
Goble, Paul. Buffalo Woman. Alladin.
_________. Dream Wolf. Alladin.
_______. Gift of the Sacred Dog. Alladin.
_________. Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Scott Foresman. (Blackfeet)
_________. Love Flute. Alladin.
_________. Her Seven Brothers.
_______.The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman. National Geographic.
________.Iktomi and the Boulder. Orchard.
__________.Mystic Horse. HarperCollins.
________. Star Boy. Scott Foresman.
Grandfather Stories of the Navajo. Rough Rock Demonstration School, Navajo Curriculum Center.
Harjo, Joy (Muscogee). The Good Luck Cat. Harcourt.
Hausman, G. (Navajo). Eagle Boy.
Hayes, Joe. Heart Full of Rainbows - Pueblo Indian Tales. Trails West.
________. Soft Child: How Rattlesnake Got Its Fangs: A Native American Folktale. Roberts Rinehart. (Tohono O'Odham Indians).
_______. Coyote and Native American Folk Tales. Mariposa.
How the Eagle Got his Eyes (Cree). 5th & 7th Grade Students at Oscar Blackburn School in South Indian Lake, Manitoba.
Hoy-Goldsmith, Diane. Pueblo Storyteller. Scholastic. (Pueblo)
Hucko, Bruce. A Rainbow at Night: The World in Words and Pictures by Navajo Children.
Hunter, Hoagland Sara. The Unbreakable Code. Northland.
Hillerman, Tony. The Boy Who Made Dragonfly: A Zuni Myth. University of New Mexico.
Irbinskas, Heather. How Jackrabbit Got His Very Long Ears. Rising Moon.
John, Roberta. Red is Beautiful. (Navajo). Salina Bookshelf.
Joose, Barbara M. Mama, Do You Love Me? Chronicle Books.
Kalman, Bobbie. Celebrating the Pow Wow. Crabtree.
___________. Native Homes. Crabtree.
Keams, Geri. (Navajo). Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun. Northland.
________. (Navajo). Snail Girl Brings Water: A Navajo Story. Keegan, Marcia. Pueblo Girls: Growing Up in Two Worlds. Clear Light Publishing.
King, Sandra. An Ojibway Dancer.
Kusagak, Michael. My Arctic 1,2,3. Annick Press.
________. Arvaarluk (Inuit). Hide and Sneak.
Lacapa, Michael (Apache/Hopi/Tewa). Antelope Woman: an Apache Folktale. Northland Publishing
___________. The Flute Player: an Apache folktale. Rising Moon.
___________. The Mouse Couple. Northland Publishing.
___________. The Magic Hummingbird: A Hopi Folktale. Kiva.
___________ and Lacapa, Kathleen (Mohawk). Less than Half, More than Whole.
Ladd, Edmund. The Zuni. Raintree/Steck Vaughn.
Littlechild, George. (Cree). How the Mouse Got Brown Teeth. Fifth House.
_________. This Land is My Land. Children’s Book Press.
Lomatuway’Ma, Michael. Hopi Animal Stories. Bison Books.
_________. Hopi Animal Tales. University of Nebraska Press.
Lucero, Evelina Zuni. Night Sky, Morning Star. University of Arizona Press.
Lund, Jillian (Southwest). Way out West Lives a Coyote Named Frank. Puffin Books.
________. (Southwest). Two Cool Coyotes. Puffin Books.
Maher, Ramona (Navajo) Alice Yazzie’s Year. color illustrations by Shonto Begay.
Mana, Tawa and Youyouseyah (Hopi/Tewa). When Hopi Children were Bad: A Monster Story. Sierra Oaks.
Marsh, T.J. and Jennifer Ward. Way Out in the Desert: Picture Book & Board Book. Northland. (Southwest).
Martin, Rafe. The Rough-Face Girl. Puffin.
McCain, Becky Ray. Grandmother's Dreamcatcher. Albert Whitman and Company.
McDermott, Gerald (Northwest). Raven: Trickster Tale from the Pacific Northwest. Harcourt.
___________. Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale. Puffin.
___________. Coyote. A Trickster Tale from the American Southwest. Voyager.
___________. Jabut: the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon. Harcourt.
___________. Papagayo: The Mischief Maker. Voyager.
___________. Creation. Dutton Books.
___________. Raven: A Trickster Tale of the Pacific Northwest. Harcourt.
___________. Creation. Dutton Books.
Momaday, Scott. Circle of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story. Clear Light Publishing.
Moreillon, Judi. Sing Down the Rain by. Kiva Publishing.
Morgan, William (Navajo). Navajo Coyote Tales. Ancient City Press.
Moroney, Lynn and Te Ata (Chickasaw). Baby Rattlesnake. Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Book Press.
Mullet, G. M. Spider Woman Stories: Legends of the Hopi Indians. University of Arizona Press.
Munsch, Robert and Michael Kusugak. A Promise is a Promise.(Inuit).
National Museum of the American Indian. When the Rain Sings. Simon and Schuster.
Navajo Children’s Literature, Vols. 1 &2. Native American Materials Development Center.
Nelson, S.D. (Lakota). Gift Horse. Harry N. Abrams.
Newcomb, Franc Johnson. Navajo Folk Tales. University of New Mexico Press. Winslow, Barbara. Dance on a Sealskin.
Opler, Edward. Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians. Dover.
Orie, Sandra DeCoteau (Oneida). Did You Hear Wind Sing Your Name? An Oneida Song of Spring.
Ortiz, Simon (Acoma). The People Shall Continue. Children’s Book Press.
Osinski, Alice. The Navajos. Children’s Press.
Oughton, Jerrie. How the Stars fell into the Sky: A Navajo Legend. Houghton Mifflin. Turkey Girl: A Zuni Cinderella Story. Little Brown & Company
Powell, Patricia Hruby (Navajo) Zinnia: How the Corn was Saved (Salina Bookshelf)
Rainer, Howard. (Pueblo) A song for Mother Earth. Beautiful America Publishing.
Rainer, Howard. (Pueblo) Proud moments : generation to generation. Beautiful America Publishing.
Red Hawk, Richard (Wyandot). ABC: The Indian Way. Sierra Oaks.
_________. A Trip to the Pow Wow. Sierra Oaks.
_________. Grandfather’s Story of Navajo Monsters. Sierra Oaks
Rodanas, Kristine. The Story of Blue Elk. Houghton Mifflin.
Roessel, Monty (Navajo). Songs from the Loom: A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave.
____________. Kinaaldá’: A Navajo Girl Grows Up. Lerner Publications.
Rosen, Michael (Pueblo). Crow and Hawk: A Traditional Pueblo Indian Story.
Rucki, Ani. Turkey’s Gift to the People. Northland. (Navajo).
San Souci, Robert. The Legend of Scarface. Zephyr Books (Blackfeet).
__________. Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story. Doubleday Books for Young Readers.
Schick, Eleanor. My Navajo Sister. Simon & Schuster. (Navajo).
___________. Navajo Wedding Day: A Dine’ Marriage Ceremony. Marshall Cavendish.
Seymour, Trynlje Van Ness (Apache Folktale). The Gift of Changing Woman.
Sanderson, Esther (Cree). Two Pairs of Shoes. Pemmican.
Sekaquaptewa, Eugene (Hopi), Coyote and Winnowing Birds. Clear Light Publishing
Smith, Cynthia Leitich (Muscogee). Jingle Dancer. HarperCollins.
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk (Lakota). The Apaches: A First Americans Book. Holiday House.
____________. The Cheyennes: A First Americans Book. Holiday House.
_____________. The Hopis: A First Americans Book. Holiday House.
___________. The Iroquois: A First Americans Book. Holiday House.
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk (Lakota). The Navajos: A First Americans Book. Holiday House.
____________. The Seminoles: A First Americans Book. Holiday House.
___________. The Sioux: A First Americans Book. Holiday House.
__________.Enduring Wisdom. Holiday House.
____________. The Trickster and the Troll. University of Nebraska Press.
Stevens, Janet. Coyote Steals the Blanket: A Ute Tale. Holiday House.
Stoodt, Jeffrey. Illustrated by Anthony Chee Emerson (Navajo). How the Rattlesnake got its Rattle. Scholastic.
Swamp, Jake and Erwin Printup. Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message. Lee and Low Books.
Swentzell, Rina (Santa Clara Potter). Children of Clay: A family of Pueblo Potters, Lerner Publications.
Talashoema, Herhal (Hopi). Coyote and Little Turtle.
Tapahonso, Luci (Navajo) with Eleanor Schick (Illustrator). Navajo ABC : A Diné Alphabet Book. Simon & Schuster.
Tapahonso, Luci (Navajo) A Baby Brother is Born, NOFAS, Bureau of Indian Affairs/Office of Indian Education Programs, Illustrated by Sam English
Tapahono, Luci & illustrated by Anthony Emerson (Navajo). Songs of Shiprock Fair, Kiva Press.
Tallchief, Maria. Tallchief: America's Prima Ballerina. Viking Press.
Taylor. Harriet Peck. (Tewa). Coyote and the Laughing Butterfly. (Tewa Legend).
Thomas, Marjorie W. Bidii. (Navajo).
Thomason, Dovie (Lakota/Kiowa-Apache), The Animals’ Wishes.
Tomcheck, Ann Heinrichs. The Hopi. Children’s Press.
Turtle, Eagle Walking. Full Moon Stories. Hyperion.
Van Camp, Richard. What's the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? Children's Book Press.
_________. A Man Called Raven. Children’s Book Press.
Van Laan, Nancy. (Lenape). Rainbow Crow. Dragonfly.
Verarde, Pabliya (Santa Clara Pueblo). Old father Storyteller. Clear Light Publishing.
Waboose, Jan Bourdeau. SKYSISTERS (Ojibway). Kids Can Press.
Walters, Anna Lee (Otoe). The Two Legged Creatures: An Otoe Story Retold. Northland.
Walters, Anna Lee. The Pawnee Nation. Bridgestone Books.
Webb, Denise. The Same Sun Was in the Sky.
Wheeler, Bernelda (Cree/Ojibwe/Metis). I Can’t have Bannock but the Beaver Has a Dam. Pemmican.
___________. Where did you get your Mocassins? Pemmican.
Wheeler, Jordan (Cree/Ojibwe). Just a Walk.
When the Rain Sings. National Museum of the American Indian. Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Whitethorne, Baje. Father’s Boots (Navajo).
__________. (Navajo). Sunpainters (Salina Bookshelf)
Wiebe, Rudy. Hidden Buffalo. Red Deer Press. (Cree).
Wood, Nancy & Frank Howell (Pueblo). Many Writers: Prose and Poetry of the Pueblos.
Young & Morgan. The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary.
Pawprint identifies books as culturally insensitive.
