This article describes strategies that the author employed to make a general education course titled "Fairy Tales and Folklore" more diverse and inclusive. Students read primary texts and secondary articles as part of ongoing debates, then form their own arguments within the debate, thus coming to understand how fairy tales are embedded…

This article outlines a framework the authors have used to infuse sustainability study into humanities teaching at the middle school level. Native American tribal elders can act as co-teachers in such classrooms, and the place-based stories that shaped their views of the environment can serve as important classroom texts to investigate sustainable…

In this article, the author proposes a model educators can apply when teaching one text, Louise Erdrich's "The Bingo Palace"; while she emphasizes the particular concerns this text raises, she aims, simultaneously, to offer a more general approach to teaching American Indian literature responsibly. In an increasingly multicultural academic…

Describes the Flint Youth Theatre's presentation of Saphira Linden's "Tribe," which was sponsored by A World of Difference, a prejudice awareness and reduction organization. Describes the project's treatment of the North American Indian theme, the involvement of Flint, Michigan's North American Indian community, and the process of…

Shares some recommendations for teachers in using American Indian literature to dispel myths about American Indians held by teachers and students alike. Describes the author's experience as an adopted member of an American Indian family and community. (TB)

Presented are a wide variety of current and older titles that teachers and students can use to better understand Native Americans. The following are included in the bibliography: planning aids, music, poetry, art, and fiction. (KC)

Provides an annotated list of resources for a unit on American Indian myths and legends. All of the listed materials were written by American Indian authors, set down in print as told by various tribal story tellers, or gathered by respected authorities on the American Indian. (MKM)

"Shell Shaker" (2001) by LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) is a novel that gives students an opportunity to learn that the history and culture of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma are alive today. Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award in 2002, the novel deals with two parallel stories that converge in the present, one about the eighteenth…

Presents a survey of Hopi Indian stories and songs to support the contention that native American verbal arts are predominantly oral and aural, not literal. (AEA)

The past decade featured contributions by Indian novelists, short story writers, and poets that have the potential of becoming true national Indian literature. Article comments on some of the more prominent works by Indian writers in the 1970s. (DS)

Describes the beginnings of a concerted study of American Indian literature and calls for a systematic preparation and publication of a bilingual edition of surviving native American traditional repertories. (AEA)

Describes how Native American folk culture carries important values. (JL)

Lists 26 books by and about American Indians. Titles include biographies, autobiographies, novels, and histories. (JL)

Reviews the history of the oldest newspaper in Oklahoma which was founded in 1876 to reflect Indian society and concerns. (FL)

Describes a college literature course that focuses on Leslie Silko's "Storyteller" as its core, uses other authors' related readings as dialog to Silko's multilayered text, and requires weekly informal writing assignments as preparation for discussion. Discusses five assignments and resultant student insights into American Indian…