Posts contained in the “Amer. Indian/First Nations” category:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie


Share this…             Update as of 26 October 2011: This book continues to be controversial. Only this past spring, I was asked to help fight a push to not just remove this book from the twelfth grade curriculum of a public high school, but to remove the book from the school library, as well. The irony is …read more…


Meet Kaya: An American Girl by Janet Shaw


Share this…             There are times when the most you can hope for a book is that you can read it, set it aside, and not completely hate it. So I must provide a caveat: I thought this would be one of those books. It was with some dismay that I found myself faced with the prospect …read more…