Hodder Education has withdrawn a textbook questioning if the treatment of Native Americans has been exaggerated, following complaints. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-25 13:19:43 UTC ]
“The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the first nonfiction book by the novelist Matthew Pearl, recounts a legendary abduction case that complicates our view of relations between settlers and Native Americans during westward expansion. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-05 16:57:40 UTC ]
Interviews Andrea Bryant Published by Cornell University Press in 2019 and awarded the 2019 American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th and21st Centuries), Stephanie Malia Hom’s Empire’s Mobius Strip: Historical Echoes in Italy’s Crisis of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-05-26 12:48:05 UTC ]
A photo of an abused Native girl frames Byron Dorgan’s account of struggle and survival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-02-28 13:00:00 UTC ]
W&N has triumphed in a seven-publisher auction for Aztec historian Caroline Dodds Pennock’s untold story of the Native Americans who discovered Europe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 19:15:44 UTC ]
Laura Ingalls Wilder was on the brink of having an award named in her honour, from America's Association for Library Service to Children, when in 1952 a reader complained to the publisher of Little House on the Prairie about what the reader found to be a deeply offensive statement about Native... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal, a significant achievement award in children’s literature presented by a division of the American Library Assn., will be renamed because of the author’s "stereotypical attitudes" toward Native Americans and African Americans. The Assn. for Library Service to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Her Little House on the Prairie series has been criticised for racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Books on police shootings of black men, the history of the plummeting numbers of California’s Native Americans and the tale of how Adolf Hitler led the Nazi party to power were among the honorees of the 37th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. The awards were presented Friday night at USC,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter fans in Native American communities are disappointed with the depiction of their cultures and history in the British novelist's latest stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
In his new book, 'Lincoln's Bishop,' former New York Times religion correspondent Gustav Niebuhr tells the compelling tale of Henry Benjamin Whipple, who spoke out loudly against injustice toward Native Americans during the 19th century. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]