November is Native American Heritage Month and the NEA has a list of recommended fiction, non-fiction and poetry books for all ages from pre-K to adult. You can find the list here:
Today I cataloged an audiobook by Native American author Louise Erdrich called The Porcupine Year. It's the third in a series of books about an Ojibwe family who live on Lake Superior in the 1800's. The other 2 books in the series are The Birchbark House, a National Book Award finalist, and The Game of Silence, winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. These books are recommended for grades 5-8 but I would like to read them all.
This is all pretty interesting to me because I recently became friends with a person who is an Ojibwe Indian. We started emailing each other after she posted a comment on my blog.
4 comments:
I'm going to see if are library has any of those books.
November 28, 2008, as Native American Heritage Day. Can you believe it...we finally got a day!!!
That is really cool even if it is a few hundred years too late.
I don't know of any plans to celebrate. I don't do anything for thanksgiving but this year on our day I'm having a few friends over. I going to have some wild rice and fried bread. I'll take a plate to my moms grave so she can celebrate with us.
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