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Tribally Enrolled: Nanbé Owingeh
Founder: American Indians in Children's Literature
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
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
2024 American Indian Literature Award Medal Acceptance: Laurel Goodluck

Click thru and read Laurel's remarks! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/2024...
February 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
@heideerdrich.bsky.social did you see this:
January 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
And, Cynthia Leitich Smith received the Children's Literature Lecture Award. Congratulations to her for decades of work she's done, both writing children's books and mentoring Native authors.
January 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
WINGS OF AN EAGLE: THE GOLD MEDAL DREAMS OF BILLY MILLS, written by Billy Mills won a Sibert Honor Medal. That's a terrific book, too!
January 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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.
January 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Thank you, Native writers who gave us children's books about Secretary Haaland! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/01/than...
January 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Are you gonna be in or near Phoenix on Saturday, January 25, at 10AM?

If yes, head over to the American Indian Library Association's 2024 Youth Literature Awards Reception! It is free and open to the public.
December 8, 2024 at 3:34 PM
@daniellefraggle.bsky.social It was way cool to see your book on display at National Council of Social Studies conference!
November 25, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Sign up for "Wampanoag History: Fiction or Nonfiction?" a book discussion with Linda Coombs, author of COLONIZATION AND THE WAMPANOAG. Monday, Nov 24! @freadomfighters.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Another Native-authored book to add to our Best Books list for 2024! Daniel Vandever and Deonoveigh Mitchell's WE WEAVE.
November 10, 2024 at 6:36 PM
COMING HOME: A HOPI RESISTANCE STORY by Mavasta Honyouti is excellent!
November 9, 2024 at 6:44 PM
September 6, 2024 at 2:21 PM
#NotGoingBack to the all-white world of children's books!
August 9, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Looking forward to adding the cover of Marcie Rendon's STITCHES OF TRADITION to this list of covers. For now, here's a sneak peek from the illustrator. www.instagram.com/p/C1srGARPia...
January 5, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Too Much: My Great Big Native Family by Laurel Goodluck and Bridget George; January 23 from Simon and Schuster.
January 2, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Red Bird Danced by Dawn Quigley; June 4 from Heartdrum.

WOW! Who did the cover?
January 2, 2024 at 11:34 AM
When We Gather (Ostadahlisiha): A Cherokee Tribal Feast, by Andrea Rogers and Madelyn Goodnight; May 7 from Heartdrum (Harper Collins).
January 2, 2024 at 11:24 AM
"About Native Women" features Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland, Representative Sharice Davids, Laurel Goodluck, and Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese. americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2023/12/abou...
December 16, 2023 at 5:04 PM
Laurel's book is great! And Sharice's book is one of my all time favorites. Do you have it yet? birchbarkbooks.com/products/sha...
December 14, 2023 at 5:07 PM
One moment I will remember always? Meeting Sharice Davids in person! The moment made even more wonderful when I saw she had Laurel Goodluck's biography of Deb Haaland with her.
December 14, 2023 at 5:04 PM
I am pleased to share American Indians in Children's Literature's 2023 Best Books list! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2023/11/aicl... Please share!
November 28, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Recently over at WorldCat I began to build lists of children's and YA books about Native people, written by Native authors.

I hope this link (to all lists I did) works: www.worldcat.org/lists/search...
Here's a screencap of the one on picture books:
November 14, 2023 at 1:34 PM