Indian Teacher & Personnel Program

The following book reviews have been done by staff at the ITEPP Curriculum Resource Center.

Not all books listed are recommended for classroom reading.

Book Reviewed
The Anasazi byWilliam Lace	The Arapaho by Natalie Rosinsky	Bearstone by Will Hobbs	Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky by Susan Jeffers	Coyote Fights the Sun by Mary Carpelan	The Choctaw by McKee	Corn is Maize by Aliki Brandenberg
Crazy Horse by Elaine LAndau	Dancing Teepees by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve	Digger by Jerry Stanley	The Good Luck Cat by Joy Harjo
The Heart of A Chief By Joseph Bruchac	Island of the Blue Dolphine	Jingle Dancer by Cynthia Leitich-Smith	Kit's Indian Summer by Sharon Brown
Knots on a Counting Rope	Life Among the Piutes by Sarah Winnemucca	Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home by Evangeline Yazzie, Ed.D	Moccasin Thunder Edited by Lori Carlson
The Mohawk by Nancy Bonvillian	The Mud Pony by Cohen & Begay	My Heart is On the Ground by Ann Rinaldi	Natasha Goes to the Brush Dance by Jack Norton
Native Americans of the Northeast by Sheila Wyborny	Navajo Long Walk By Joseph Bruchac	The Ojibwe by Natalie Rosinsky	Old Grandfather Teaches a Lesson by Carilyn Alarid & Marilyn Markel
Rainy's Powwow by Linda Thresea Raczek	Sign of the Beaver	The Teton Sioux by Nancy Bonvillian	Thunder Rolling in the Mountains by Scott O'Dell & Elizabeth Hall
Truth is a Bright Star by Joan Price	The Wampanoag by Natalie Rosinsky	We Are Mesquakie	Yurok

Web Resources for Reviewing books
10 Quck Ways to Analyze Children's Books For Racism & Sexism	OYATE.org	Debbie Reece's Native American Children's Literature Blog

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