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Teachers, librarians, authors, and literary advocates are struggling to keep books about Native issues into public classrooms and libraries. That’s because of the increasing momentum by groups intent on removing any references, however vague, that they deem to promote racial diversity. Michigan’s Brandywine School District banned Laurel Goodluck’s children’s book Forever Cousins, an innocuous story about two Native relatives coping with living apart. We’ll get an updated list of banned Native books and what’s being done to get them in the hands of readers.
GUESTS
Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo), founder of American Indians in Children’s Literature blog
Laurel Goodluck (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Tsimshian), author
Allison Waukau (Menominee and Navajo), president of the American Indian Library Association
Donald Keeble (Forest County Potawatomi), director of the Forest County Potawatomi Cultural Center
Break 1 Music: ABC 123 Song (song) Talibah (artist) Navajo Songs for Children (album)
Break 2 Music: Dm Yootu Stukwliin (song) Saltwater Hank (artist) G̱al’üünx Wil Lu Holtga Liimi (album)
