WISCONSIN NATIVE AMERICAN READ-IN CHAIN November 1-30, 2015 Host Invitation You are invited to celebrate Native American Heritage Month by taking an active role in the annual Wisconsin Native American Read-In. This is an opportunity to celebrate Native American literature. It is our hope that communities across Wisconsin will participate by hosting Wisconsin Native American Read-In Chains, thus creating a state-wide chain of readers. WILL YOU CONSENT TO SERVE AS A READ-IN CHAIN HOST? Read-In hosts are selected for their interest, experience, and knowledge in organizing groups, selecting appropriate reading materials, and promoting literacy. The main responsibility of hosts is to plan a Read-In, including selecting a site and inviting participants. Hosting a Read-In can be as simple as gathering with family and friends to share books, or as elaborate as arranging large audiences to hear professional writers read their work. It may be useful to rearrange the meeting time of an organized group to coincide with the dates of the Wisconsin Native American Read-In Chain and include reading events on the group s meeting agenda. You may wish to solicit funds to purchase books and refreshments. Read-Ins can be varied, so do what you do best. We only ask that reading materials are selected from the works of Native American authors and illustrators and that each host return the Native American Read-In Chain Report Card by December 15, 2015, so that we can monitor the numbers who participated in this event. To invite other hosts, simply copy this invitation and the report card and send them forward. Thanks! Contact Person Norm Andrews ILA State Coordinator Wisconsin State Reading Association 6964 N Lincolnshire Cir Milwaukee, WI 53223 414-801-5548 mister4a@sbcglobal.net 2015 WISCONSIN NATIVE AMERICAN READ-IN CHAIN HOST REPORT CARD
The host report cards are used to compute the number of readers. Also, your name is added to the database, giving tangible evidence of your role in making literacy a significant part of American Indian Heritage Month (November). To be an official participant, you must submit a report card. Please submit the report card by December 15, 2015. PLEASE REPORT PLEASE REPORT PLEASE REPORT NAME OF HOST HOST ADDRESS (complete address) HOST E-MAIL GROUP TYPE READ-IN LOCATION DATE HELD NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS BOOKS READ CAN BE LISTED ON THE BACK OF THIS FORM I grant permission to be listed as a Native American Read-In Host in published results of the Read-In. PRINTED NAME SIGNATURE PLEASE RETURN ONE COPY TO EACH OF THE FOLLOWING: Your Local Council And Norm Andrews ILA State Coordinator Wisconsin State Reading Association 6964 N Lincolnshire Circle Milwaukee, WI 53223 414-801-5548 mister4a@sbcglobal.net BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WISCONSIN NATIVE AMERICAN AUTHORS
Alexie, Sherman Flight (fiction) The story of a modern 15-year-old struggling with his Indian identity- a good problem novel. Baker, Maryellen Lac Courte Oreilles writer Selections in The Healing Blanket: Stories, Values and Poetry from Ojibwe Elders and Teachers. Salt Lake City, UT: Commune-A-Key Publishing, 1998. Benton-Benai, Edward Lac Courte Oreilles writer Generation to Generation: Short Story. Hayward, WI: Indian Country Communications, 1991. The Mishomis: The Voice of the Ojibway. St. Paul, MN: Indian Country Press, 1971. Blaeser, Kimberly M. Anishinabe poet, writer, and professor at UW-Milwaukee Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Edited by Mary Anne Doon and Jim Stevens. Madison, WI: Prairie Oak Press, 1995. Trailing You: Poems. Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press; New York: Distributed by the Talman Co., 1994. Blue Horse, Charlene Oglala Lakota writer and poet living near Stoddard, WI Boatman, John writer and professor at UW-Milwaukee My Elders Taught Me: Aspects of Western Great Lakes American Philosophy. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992. A Survey of the United States Ethnic Experience. [Milwaukee, WI]: Ethnic Studies Dept., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1992-1993. Wisconsin American Indian History and Culture: A Survey of Selected Aspects. [Milwaukee, WI]: University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 1993. Bresette, Walter Red Cliff writer and activist Walleye Warriors: An Effective Alliance Against Racism and for the Earth. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1994. Burns, Diane Lac Courte Oreilles poet Riding the One-Eyed Ford. Bowling Green: Contact II Publications, 1981. Connors, Andrew Bad River poet and writer
' Deer, Ada Menominee activist Speaking Out. Chicago: Children's Press, 1970. Jenkins, Sally The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed the Game, a People, a Nation (nonfiction) This is the true story of the 1903 Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Jim Thorpe was on the team that played against Harvard and Yale. Heath, Kristine Mama's Little One Gresham, WI: Muh-he-con-neew Press, 1998. Keshena, Rita Menominee writer Kort, Ellen Ojibwa poet, playwright, and prose writer Glory of the Morning [play]. Edited by Mary Anne Doon and Jim Stevens. Madison, WI: Prairie Oak Press, 1995. There is Something Ancient Here: Poems. Bruce, WI: Woelfinger Press, 1986. Lauter, Estella writer and professor at UW-Oshkosh Women As Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. LaBarge, Pamela Green Oneida poet Loew, Patty Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, Wisconsin Historical Society, 2001 Native People of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Historical Society, 2003 (New Badger History Series) Metoxen, Kenneth Brickman Oneida poet and writer Nahbenayash, Gladyce Lake Superior Chippewa poet, writer and professor at UW-Superior
Roberts, Michael Oneida poet Edited by Mary Anne Doan and Jim Stevens. Madison, WI: Prairie Oak Press,1995. Robinson, Rose Mary Ojibwa poet Schuman, Mildred Tinker Lac Courte Oreilles poet Selections in The Healing Blanket: Stories, Values and Poetry from Ojibwe Elders and Teachers. Salt Lake City, UT: Commune-A-Key Publishing, 1998. Sennett, Gerti Menominee poet Dream Song to the Buffalo Spirit. Oshkosh, WI: Company for Wisconsin Arts Press, 1990. Stevens, Jim Seneca poet, writer, and editor The Journey Home: Four Centuries of Wisconsin Literature (published under the name of Jim Stephens). Madison, WI: North Country Press, 1989. Dreaming History: A Collection of Wisconsin Native-American Writing. Edited by Mary Anne Doon and Jim Stevens. Madison, WI: Prairie Oak Press, 1995. Earth Hunter: the Poems of Jim Stevens. Cambridge, WI: Woodhenge Studio, 1997. The House of Old Names, Poems. Gillet, WI: Wolf Combs Editions, 2000. Sweet, Denise Anishinabe poet and professor at UW-Green Bay Know By Heart. Eau Claire, WI: Rhiannon Press, 1992. Selections in Days of Obsidian, Days of Grace: Selected Poetry and Prose by Four Native American Writers. Edited by AI Hunter... et al. Duluth, MN: Poetry Harbor, 1994. Songs for Discharming: Poems. Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review Press, 1997. Whiteman, Roberta Hill Oneida poet Philadelphia Flowers: Poems. Duluth, MN: Holy Cow! Press, 1996. Star Quilt: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: Holy Cow! Press, 1984. Native American Authors and Illustrators Website Resources
http://smithsonianeducation.org/heritage_month/index.html click on Educator Resources http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/ http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/american_indian_resources.html American Indians in Children s Literature http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2008/09/read-in-nativelanguages.html http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/native.asp