CASLS+Newsletter+Vol.3+N.8

OCTOBER 30, 2012 RONDA'S CORNER



"TRICK OR TREAT"....... //(This is the part where you give me candy ////) //

I hope everyone is safe and "dried out" from the wonderful storm.

For this week's "corner" I'm going to be brief..... Here is the latest version of the CASLS Directory. I'm attaching it in PDF as well as Publisher formats.

MARYANN'S MEANDERINGS  New Books found in the Professional Library

[] Teaching Books Blog - Giveaways available to Teachers

Teaching Books - Newsletter We're two days away from the month that the President of the United States designates as Native American Month. Below are suggestions on howyou might get your library ready for parents, teachers and students whocome into your library looking for materials on American Indians. In this post, you'll find links to ALA's READ posters that feature Sherman Alexie, author of THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART TIME INDIAN. You'l l also find links to the Indigenous Languages Development Institute, where you can buy a wall clock with numerals in a Native language, and READ posters in Indigenous languages, available from the Tulsa American Indian Resources Center: Creating a Library Atmosphere that Welcomes American Indians: []

In these posts, you'll find recommended books about American Indians, by age group: Top Board Books <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Top Ten Books for Elementary School <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Top Ten Books for Middle School <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Top Ten Books for High School <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">If you want some guidance on how to help students do research on American Indians, using encyclopedias and websites, see Resources for Projects on American Indians <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">If you're looking for books and materials about boarding schools for American Indians, here's some: <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Boarding Schools for American Indians <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">If you want guidelines on how to evaluate the content of a Native site, here's an excellent page about that: Guidelines for Evaluating American Indian Web Sites <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">And, if you want to develop your understandings of the ways that American Indians are not "multicultural" or "people of color", see: We Are Not "People of Color" <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">If you're looking for a Question/Answer book about American Indians, this one by the National Museum of the American Indian is outstanding :Do All Indians Live In Tipis? <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Did you know that "papoose" is not the American Indian word for baby? Papoose? <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Brought to you by: <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Debbie Reese, Ph.D <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Publisher of American Indians in Children's Literature[|<http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net>] <span style="color: #ff0600; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Email: dreese.nambe@gmail.com