Volume 9, Issue 2. 1978

Themes:

Native Americans; indigenous people; racism; colonialism; stereotypes; social responsibility; historical suppression and misrepresentation; genocide; land rights; reservations

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Michael Dorris, Jim Gale, Dorothy Levenson, Emily R. Moore, Pedro Ramírez, Sue Ribner, Virginia Wilder, Donna Lovell, Elizabeth Martinez, Beryle Banfield

Materials Reviewed:

With My Face Rising to the Sun by Robert Martin Screen. Amazon / WorldCat
We All Come from Someplace: Children of Puerto Rico by Julia Singer. Amazon / WorldCat
We All Come from Puerto Rico, Too by Julia Singer. Amazon / WorldCat
Women in Sports: Track and Field by Diana C. Gleasner. Amazon / WorldCat
What Kind of Guy Do You Think I Am? by Sidney Offit. Amazon / WorldCat
Black Rainbow: Legends of the Incas and Myths of Ancient Peru by John Bierhorst. Amazon / WorldCat
Who Needs Espie Sanchez? by Terry Dunnahoo. Amazon / WorldCat
Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems by Eloise Greenfield. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

Michael Hendee by Cynthia Butler
Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont by Francis Chase
Aborigines of Australia by Olga Hoyt
Australia Connexions: Aborigines, Race and Racism by Humphrey McQueen
A Bastard Like Me by Charles Perkins
Black Viewpoints: The Aboriginal Experience by Colin Tate, ed.
The Australian Aborigines by Eleanor Z. Baker
Bush Walkabout by Axel Poignant
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Ngari the Hunter by Ronald Rose
The Sound of Boomerangs by Carol Morse Perkins
The Aboriginal Children's History of Australia by Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council
Racism and Mental Health by Charles Willie, Bernard Kramer, and Bertram Brown
Racism and Psychiatry by Alexander Thomas and Samuel Sillen

Keywords:

Native Americans, Aboiginies, Australia, indigenous people, racism, colonialism, stereotypes, social responsibility, publishing, Regional Center for Educational Training, historical suppression and misrepresentation, depictions, Dell Goodwin, Native American Council of Dartmouth College, censorship, ethnocentrism, Mohawk, terminology, Children's Books in Print, genocide, land rights, reservations, Gurindji, sexism, Eurocentrism, Aboriginal Land Fund, Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA), Mollie G. Dyer, Minority Mental Health Program Act of 1977, mental health, psychology, legislation, institutional racism, Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), American Library Association (ALA), Zoia Horn, Eric Moon, Clara Stanton Jones, Annette L. Phinazee, Black Caucus, Helen Josephine, Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, consciousness-raising, Donnarae MacCann, Beryle Banfield, Albert V. Schwartz, Robert Moore, book lists, bibliographies, disabilities, Mafex Associated, The Feminist Press, Asian American Studies Center, Public Action Coalition on Toys (PACT), Developmental Learning Materials, feminism, Documentary Photo Aids Inc.