Debbie Reese

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Want your kids to avoid the "summer slide" and give their cultural identities a boost? Try these seven books by Native writers.
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7 Books By Native Writers to Slow the ‘Summer Slide’

Detail from cover of Tim Tingle's 'How I Became a Ghost.'
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4 Mistakes Made in Children’s Literature About Natives, and Books That Fix Them

Santa Claus takes on many guises. Once he was even a Pueblo Indian woman! (Ahem. The author, with her niece, in 2009.)
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9 Children’s Books That Summon the Native Christmas Spirit

Reading children the classic 'The People Shall Continue' by Simon Ortiz will pave the way to a sound education about the events leading up to and following the so-called First Thanksgiving.
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Beyond the So-Called First Thanksgiving: 5 Children's Books That Set the Record Straight