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Debbie Reese and Zetta Elliott at ACL 2016 Association of Childrens Librarians

On Friday, June 4th, Zetta Elliott and I were in San Francisco for the 2016 Association of Childrens Librarians of northern Californias annual institute. If youre on twitter you can find some of the gems from the daylong conference using the hashtag #ACLInst2016. Our remarks were taped. Here they are:



Heres Zettas opening remarks:



And then, Zetta and I sat down for a brief conversation:



And last, I was part of a panel, moderated by Nina Lindsay. Here it is:



Thank you, Meredith Steiner, for inviting me to spend the day with you! At various times during the day, people I was talking with said that the information and conversations were better than what theyve had opportunities to partake of, before. I heard "depth of thinking and interaction" that I think marks the entire day. We werent celebrating kids books or writers. We werent shying away from hard questions, either. If anyone who was there (or who watches the videos) wants to talk more about anything, please let me know!

Debbie Reese to Host IndigenousXca from March 17 through March 24

Sharing some great news! Chelsea Vowell of apihtawikosisan asked me to host IndigenousXca from March 17 through March 24. If youre not tapped into Native networks on Twitter, youre probably wondering what IndigenousXca is...

Back in 2012, Luke Pearson started IndigenousX in Australia as a way to provide Indigenous people a way to reach a broader audience than those who follow the individuals Twitter account. Inspired by it, Chelsea launched IndigenousXca on October 30, 2014. Hosts are primarily First Nations, but the reality? The line between the US and Canada is a blurry one when you center Indigenous Peoples as the peoples of North America.

Each week, an Indigenous person is invited to tweet using the IndigenousXca account. The subject of the tweets is up to the host.

IndigenousXcas first host was Paul Seesequasis. Since then, there have been over 60 hosts. Right now (March 10-17), Dale Turner (hes a professor at Dartmouth) is the host.

People who follow my Twitter account (@debreese) know that I generally tweet about representations of Native peoples in childrens and young adult books, but that I also tweet items Ive read and want to promote. Some of those are specific to Native people, but some arent.

During my week as a host of IndigenousXca, Ill stick to tweets about my area of research and expertise (representations of Native peoples in childrens and young adult books). That includes sharing books Ive reviewed here on AICL as well as items other Native people are writing about--including their responses to J.K. Rowlings Magic in North America series. Those tweets will be sent out using the @IndigenousXca account. If youre on Twitter, I hope youll check out, and then follow that account. Theres some excellent content shared via that account.

Debbie Reese at Northern New Mexico College on March 9 2016

Im looking forward to time Ill spend with students in the P�e Project at Northern New Mexico College. If youre nearby, I hope youll come! My goal in this lecture is to talk about what children are taught in schools. In textbooks and in childrens literature, we tend to see the same problems: factual errors, bias, erasures, and missed opportunities, too. 


Take, for example, a very popular series called Geronimo Stilton. One of them is in Scholastics Arrow (4th-6th grade) flyer for February 2016. The book is Geronimo Stiltons Race Across America. It is a good example of erasure.

In it, Geronimo visits Arizona. Those of you with knowledge of Native people know there are a lot of Native people in Arizona, but there arent any in Race Across America.

I understand that it might have not fit with the story to include Navajo people for Geronimo to interact with when hes on Navajo lands, but throughout the book, there are pages that provide information that doesnt have much to do with the story. In Race Across America, Geronimo and his bike racing team fly to the West Coast aboard a large plane. In that part of the story, theres a page about exercises anyone can do to stretch their limbs when flying. You see these exercises in the airline magazines. Theyre the kind people should do to avoid thrombosis.

So--why not include something about the Navajo Nation and sovereignty rather than pages about Westerns that were filmed in Monument Valley?

Ill be doing a review of Race Across America later.

Scholastic publishes the series. It also provides teachers with lesson plans to use with the books. Heres a screen capture of one: