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From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:38:16 -0600
Actually, Mark, I've had nonfiction in mind, too, because the nonfiction about American Indians on most library shelves is especially troubling. So much of what is out there puts us firmly in the past.
Some of it is sloppy, too. A good case in point is a book that got lot of twitter-land play last month: Children of the Tipi, by Michael O. Fitzgerald. In it, the sloppyness was in mixing of different tribal nations on a single page, with no information provided to point to the different nations BEING different. Details here: http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2014/01/children-of-tipi-life-in-buffalo-days.html
And I have concerns about Floca's book, too. So I'd say that the issue of bias is not different from what I see in fiction. And, you suggest that research, evidence, and knowledge is free of bias, and it isn't. Sources have bias.
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: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:38:16 -0600
Actually, Mark, I've had nonfiction in mind, too, because the nonfiction about American Indians on most library shelves is especially troubling. So much of what is out there puts us firmly in the past.
Some of it is sloppy, too. A good case in point is a book that got lot of twitter-land play last month: Children of the Tipi, by Michael O. Fitzgerald. In it, the sloppyness was in mixing of different tribal nations on a single page, with no information provided to point to the different nations BEING different. Details here: http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2014/01/children-of-tipi-life-in-buffalo-days.html
And I have concerns about Floca's book, too. So I'd say that the issue of bias is not different from what I see in fiction. And, you suggest that research, evidence, and knowledge is free of bias, and it isn't. Sources have bias.
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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