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This week we’re discussing indigenous representation in literature and we are so excited to welcome Hannah Buckland to our show! Hannah is the State Library Program Specialist.
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Thanks for the great podcast on Indigenous Representation. It was good to hear from Hannah again. I was fortunate to hear her speak in September at MLA. At that session we also heard about IllumiNative which is an initiative to challenge the negative narrative that surrounds Native communities and ensures accurate and authentic portrayals of Native communities in pop culture and media. Check out Tiny.cc/indigenousrepresentations also. And American Indians in children’s lit blog also. Oyate is a publisher and reviewer of books about Native Americans, particularly aimed at school children. The books that were talked about but not listed in your notes were Onigamiising:Seasons of an Ojibwe Year by Linda Legarde Grover, Blue Jay’s Dance of Birth Year and Books & Islands in Ojibwe Country both by Louise Erdrich. And the last title was We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom coming out in March 2020. I think we should set up a field trip to go see Birchbark Books in Minneapolis. Thanks again to all of you, I enjoyed this podcast.
Jane, thank you so much for listening to our episode and for sharing these additional resources.
And I absolutely love the idea of taking a field trip to Birchbark Books!! We will have to get this set up, thank you for the suggestion!!
Yes – it was really good to have Hannah here, with all the information she shared! And that would be really neat to have a member’s event when this book is out – what a great idea!!
My pleasure, and I would look forward to a trip if we end up planning one! I’m also interested in the Indigenous workshop at St Kate’s, whenever that happens.