Format:
Book
Title:
Native American picture books of change : the art of historic children's editions / by Rebecca C. Benes ; with a foreword by Gloria Emerson.
Author:
Benes, Rebecca C.
Call Number:
810.8 Benes
Publisher, Date:
Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, c2004.
Description:
xvi, 168 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Summary:
This volume describes the history and motivation behind some of the most exceptional children's books published in the United States. These picture-book readers, originally developed for use in Indian schools during the New Deal era, represent the first "Native-centered" texts used in Bureau of Indian Affairs curriculum. They were written by lauded writers, ethnologists and linguists, and illustrated with the stunning work of emerging and prominent Native American artists. The author includes paintings and historical photographs, some from as early as 1922 to accompany the text.
Subjects:
American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
Picture books for children -- United States -- Bibliography.
American literature -- Indian authors -- Illustrations.
Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.
Illustrated books -- United States -- Bibliography.
Children -- Books and reading -- United States.
Children's stories, American -- Illustrations.
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.
Illustration of books -- United States.
Indigenous children -- Books and reading -- United States.
Indians in literature.
Indians in art.
Contents:
Telling grandfather's stories. Taytay's tales (1922) ; Taytay's memories (1924) ; Swift Eagle of the Rio Grande (1928) ; Five little katchinas (1930) -- Picture books of Pueblo life. Komoki of the cliffs (1934) ; School days at San Juan (n.d.) ; Feast day at Nambe (n.d.) ; Shaker our monkey (n.d.) ; Shaker's health book (n.d.) ; I am a Pueblo Indian girl (1939) ; In my mother's house (1941) -- Indian life readers : Pueblo series. Little boy with three names/El muchachito con tres nombres (1940) ; Young hunter of picuris/El cazadorcito de picuris (1943) ; Sun journey/La jornada del sol (1945) -- Indian life readers : Navajo series. Little herder in autumn/Aak'eedgo na'nitkaadi yazhi (1940) ; Little herder in winter/Haigo na'nitkaadi yazhi (1940) ; Little herder in spring/Daago na'nitkaadi yazhi (1940) ; Little herder in summer/Shiigo na'nitkaadi yazhi (1940) ; Who wants to be a prairie dog?/Haisha t'aa k'ad dloo silii? (1940) ; Little man's family/Dine yazhi ba'atchini (1940) ; Coyote tales (1949) ; Primer (1946) ; Pre-primer (1946).
Indian life readers : Sioux series. Brave against the enemy/T'oka wan itkok ip ohitike kin he (1944) ; Pine Ridge porcupine/Wazi ahanham p'ahin k'un he (1942) ; Slim butte raccoon/Paha zizipela wic'iteglega kin (1942) ; The grass mountain mouse/He p'eji it'unkala kin (1943) ; The hen of Wahpeton/Unjincala Wahpet'un etanhan kin he (1943) ; There still are buffalo/Nahanheci pte yuk'anpi (1943) ; Bringer of the mystery dog/Sunka wan wak'an agli kin he (1943) ; Sioux cowboy/Lak'ota pte'ole hoksila (1945) ; Singing Sioux cowboy/Lak'ota pte'ole hoksila lowansa (1947) -- Indian life readers : Hopi series. Field mouse goes to war/Tusan homichi tuwvota (1944) ; Little Hopi/Hopithoya (1948) -- Native American illustration at mid-century. Ay-Chee, son of the desert (1935) ; Spin a silver dollar (1944) ; Paint the wind (1958) ; Geronimo, the last Apache war chief (1952) ; Cochise : Apache warrior and statesman (1953) ; Runner in the sun (1954) ; Blue Canyon horse (1954) ; The desert people (1962) ; Joe Sunpool (1956) ; The cave (1958) ; The little Indian basket maekr (1957) ; A hogan for the bluebird (1969) ; The ordeal of the young hunter (1954) ; Shush'ma (1964) -- Circle of change. Old father, the story teller (1960) ; Black Mountain boy (1968) ; Grandfather stories of the Navajo (1974) ; Gullible Coyote/Una'ihu (1985) -- Appendix A: Selected picture books by author -- Appendix B: Selected picture books by artist.
ISBN:
0890134715 (alk. paper)
0890134723 (pbk. : alk. paper)