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Tribally Enrolled: Nanbé Owingeh
Founder: American Indians in Children's Literature
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Today @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @eff.org filed a lawsuit on behalf of non-profit advocacy groups challenging San Jose’s warrantless searches as violating the California Constitution’s protections against unreasonable searches and right to privacy.

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Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance | ACLU of Northern CA
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November 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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On this seventeenth day of #AlaskaNativeHeritageMonth we’re highlighting the children’s #picturebook “How the Raven Got His Crooked Nose” by #Dena’ina mother/son team Barbara J. Atwater and Ethan J. Atwater.

#nativeamericanheritagemonth #books #indigenous #writer

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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 17
For our seventeenth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting “How Raven Got His Crooked Nose.” This is a traditional Dena’ina story retold by Dena’ina mother/son team Barbara J. Atwa…
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November 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Been out of the SCOTUS opinion analysis for a min (baby). But this Gorsuch Dissent (joined by Thomas 😮) from cert. denial in Veneno v. US, which challenged the Major Crimes Act (a fed. law that allows feds. to prosecute crimes on Indian Reservations), is worth discussing/explaining for a sec. 🧵 1/8
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Another Milestone for AICL's list! This is the first time School Library Journal has featured a Native writer on its cover. Here's Angeline Boulley (enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians): americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/p/milestones...
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I think this may be the first time @slj.com has featured a Native writer on the cover. If anyone can recall a previous issue with a Native writer on the cover, let me know! Thanks.
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Artist Georgia O'Keeffe ignored the Indigenous presence all around her in New Mexico. Now a new exhibition at the O'Keeffe Museum draws awareness to the ongoing presence of Tewa Peoples by presenting a group exhibition of Tewa artists.
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New exhibition at Georgia O’Keeffe Museum foregrounds contemporary Indigenous perspectives
On Aug. 26, 2020, three months after the start of the George Floyd protests, the award-winning journalist and arts writer Alicia Inez Guzmán hosted an online panel discussion, titled “This is Not O’Ke...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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How Educators Can Support Native Students
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How Educators Can Support Native Students
Former ALA president Cindy Hohl and Printz-winning author Angeline Boulley discuss Sisters in the Wind, the foster system, and self-care.
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November 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"Awesome" says a person with expertise in children's literature! Please click thru and sign up for the 2025-2026 webinars. Announced at mine was a new addition to the lineup: Angeline Boulley!
These free webinars are awesome. I went to most of them last year and am excited to see a fabulous lineup once again. Debbie started off this school year with a great webinar that helped fill my shopping cart with excellent books.
Free webinars by Native writers? YES! Over 15 authors and illustrators, including Andrea Rogers (author of Caldecott winner, Chooch Helped) and Michaela Goode (illustrator of Caldecott winner, We Are Water Protectors). Take a look! online.flippingbook.com/view/2526852... Tell teachers and sign up.
September 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Free webinars by Native writers? YES! Over 15 authors and illustrators, including Andrea Rogers (author of Caldecott winner, Chooch Helped) and Michaela Goode (illustrator of Caldecott winner, We Are Water Protectors). Take a look! online.flippingbook.com/view/2526852... Tell teachers and sign up.
2025-26 NWOK Book Club flier
This interactive flipbook is created with FlippingBook, a service for streaming PDFs online. No download, no waiting. Open and start reading right away!
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September 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Teachers/librarians write to me looking for accurate non-fiction bks. They know that authorship matters! Today I'm pleased as can be to share my review of THE CHEROKEE: PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND HISTORY by @pollysgdaughter.bsky.social. americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/07/high...
Highly Recommended: THE CHEROKEE: PEOPLE, CULTURE, AND HISTORY by Twila M. Barnes
Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books
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July 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Over at American Indians in Children's Literature, Jean recommends DAD, IS IT TIME TO GATHER MINT and HERRING TO HUCKLEBERRIES. Read her review and order the books! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/05/indi...
June 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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🚨 Super exciting news…the new edition of the Bluebook has a brand new rule…

Rule 22 on how to cite materials from Tribal Nations!!!

A long overdue and welcome development. Tribal Law scholars, we have a lot to be proud of today.

Tribal Law and Tribal Nations are a little less invisible today.🫶🏽✊🏽
June 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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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.
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A new website illuminates the history of Indigenous enslavement in New England - TPR: The Public's Radio
Brown University history professor Mack Scott grew up Indigenous in Rhode Island. He moved to the Narragansett reservation in Charlestown in middle school, where he was steeped in his culture. But pri...
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May 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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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.
May 4, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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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.

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Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from dismantling library services agency
A federal judge has agreed to temporarily block the Trump administration from taking any more steps to dismantle an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the nation.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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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...
I Think Neil Gorsuch Is Lying About a “Religious Freedom” Case Again
Why did Gorsuch claim that ‘Pride Puppy’, an alphabet book about a lost dog, introduces kids to bondage and sex workers? Let’s find out!
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April 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Loving the NPR segment on Chooch Helped! @andrealrogers.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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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...
Crazy Horse and Joseph Marshall III
A tribute to a Lakota writer
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April 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Read the experts, @bethanyberger.bsky.social & Greg Ablavsky, on the accurate history of Native peoples and birthright citizenship 👇
Trump & his lawyers rely on the 14th Amendment's treatment of Native people to redefine birthright citizenship. In our Essay coming out in the NYU Law Review Online, Greg Ablavsky & I show how wrong that argument is. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof: The Indian Law Context
<p><span>Section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are
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April 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM