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From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:38:06 -0500
Nancy noted Tim Tingle's Crossing Bok Chitto. It is quite popular.
Robert referenced an interview in which Tim said that people walked out of a storytelling session when he started with information about smallpox. In thinking about that, and about what people want/don't want, my thoughts turn to Tingle's Saltypie. It isn't popular like Crossing Bok Chitto, maybe for the same reason that people walked out of Tim's session. It is about his grandparents moving from Choctaw Territory to Texas in 1915. His grandmother was hit in the face with a stone. Tim's dad (then a toddler) saw the blood and thought it was pie filling. He dabbed at, and then tasted it, and said it was "saltypie" --- hence that phrase is used whenever the family is dealing with adversity.
There is a wonderful note in the back of the book, written especially for teachers. If you don't have it, do get it. http://www.cincopuntos.com/products_detail.sstg?id=157
His most recent book is now available: House of Purple Cedar. In it, he takes us to Oklahoma, late 1800s, where a boarding school is burned down and the Choctaw girls inside are killed. That storytelling voice several of you have mentioned absolutely shines in House of Purple Cedar. Rose, a young Choctaw girl, is the storyteller in it. There's a brute marshall in it who, drunk and enraged at his own ineptitude, strikes her grandfather on the head with a board. They weren't doing anything to attract attention. They just happened to be in the path of that marshall. That humor you found necessary in Ghost is very present in House of Purple Cedar, too. It is published for the adult market but is one of those that fits in the Alex Award framework. I highly recommend it, and one of the most respected scholars of Native literature, Geary Hobson, says it is a crowning achievement of this era of literary work by Native writers.
http://www.cincopuntos.com/products_detail.sstg?id=215
Debbie
__________________________________________________________ Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 07:38:06 -0500
Nancy noted Tim Tingle's Crossing Bok Chitto. It is quite popular.
Robert referenced an interview in which Tim said that people walked out of a storytelling session when he started with information about smallpox. In thinking about that, and about what people want/don't want, my thoughts turn to Tingle's Saltypie. It isn't popular like Crossing Bok Chitto, maybe for the same reason that people walked out of Tim's session. It is about his grandparents moving from Choctaw Territory to Texas in 1915. His grandmother was hit in the face with a stone. Tim's dad (then a toddler) saw the blood and thought it was pie filling. He dabbed at, and then tasted it, and said it was "saltypie" --- hence that phrase is used whenever the family is dealing with adversity.
There is a wonderful note in the back of the book, written especially for teachers. If you don't have it, do get it. http://www.cincopuntos.com/products_detail.sstg?id=157
His most recent book is now available: House of Purple Cedar. In it, he takes us to Oklahoma, late 1800s, where a boarding school is burned down and the Choctaw girls inside are killed. That storytelling voice several of you have mentioned absolutely shines in House of Purple Cedar. Rose, a young Choctaw girl, is the storyteller in it. There's a brute marshall in it who, drunk and enraged at his own ineptitude, strikes her grandfather on the head with a board. They weren't doing anything to attract attention. They just happened to be in the path of that marshall. That humor you found necessary in Ghost is very present in House of Purple Cedar, too. It is published for the adult market but is one of those that fits in the Alex Award framework. I highly recommend it, and one of the most respected scholars of Native literature, Geary Hobson, says it is a crowning achievement of this era of literary work by Native writers.
http://www.cincopuntos.com/products_detail.sstg?id=215
Debbie
__________________________________________________________ Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
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