Category: Books

Book: Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea

The first Europeans to arrive in North America’s various regions relied on Native women to help them navigate unfamiliar customs and places. This study of three well-known and legendary female cultural intermediaries, Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea, examines their initial contact with Euro-Americans, their negotiation of multinational frontiers, and their symbolic representation over time. Well before their first contact with Europeans

Read more

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

  “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” (2007) by American writer Sherman Alexietells the story of Arnold Spirit, a 14-year-old boy from the Spokane Indian Reservation in Washington state. He goes to an all-White high school – thus the “part-time Indian” of the title. It won a National Book Award and yet is banned by some schools. It is

Read more