E yeh shure poet authors card game
Compiled by Debbie Reese (Nambé Owingeh) and Jean Mendoza (White)
American Indians in Children's Literature
(Date of last update: Jan 27, 2025)
In Milestones for Diversity in Children's Literature and Library Services (published in the fall 2015 issue of Children and Libraries) Kathleen T. Horning lays out significant developments in children's literature. In the article she makes the point that progress "is often measured by firsts--the first Newbery Medal given to an author of color" and so on.
Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Owingeh) launched American Indians in Children's Literature in 2006 with the intent of sharing what she learned as she researched, analyzed, and wrote about representations of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books. In some places she has written about key moments that mark progress, but she has not gathered them together in a list of milestones--until now.
With this post on July 21, 2021, American Indians in Children's Literature begins our effort to bring forth a list of milestones. It includes general milestones (like when the Newbery Medal was established) but its focus is on milestones of achievement--for Native peoples in children's literature. Its focus is on Indigenous Peoples of the Tribal Nations in what is currently known as the United States, who have done something that is about Native peoples.
Please submit comments (or email us) about items that can be added, and corrections that need doing! Anything--by anyone--that attempts to list milestones is a work-in-progress. We find new things, and those milestones shift! What we share below is accurate to the best of our knowledge. When we learn that a milestone we've listed is not "a first" as we describe, we will make a correction.
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1881
"Nedawi"--a short story written by Susette LaFlesche (Omaha) is published in the children's magazine, St. Nicholas: An Illu Indigenous Milestones in Children's Literature Compiled by Debbie Reese (Nambé Owingeh) and Jean Mendoza (White) American Indians in Children's Literature In Milestones for Diversity in Children's Literature and Library Services (published in the fall 2015 issue of Children and Libraries) Kathleen T. Horning lays out significant developments in children's literature. In the article she makes the point that progress "is often measured by firsts--the first Newbery Medal given to an author of color" and so on. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Owingeh) launched American Indians in Children's Literature in 2006 with the intent of sharing what she learned as she researched, analyzed, and wrote about representations of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books. In some places she has written about key moments that mark progress, but she has not gathered them together in a list of milestones--until now. With this post on July 21, 2021, American Indians in Children's Literature begins our effort to bring forth a list of milestones. It includes general milestones (like when the Newbery Medal was established) but its focus is on milestones of achievement--for Native peoples in children's literature. Its focus is on Indigenous Peoples of the Tribal Nations in what is currently known as the United States. Please submit comments about items that can be added, and corrections that need doing! Anything--by anyone--that attempts to list milestones is a work-in-progress. We find new things, and those milestones shift! What we share below is accurate to the best of our knowledge. When we learn that a milestone we've listed is not "a first" as we describe, we will make a correction. [Note: this post will be copy/pasted into a Page that you can see in the menu bar beneath AICL's logo. When updates are done, they will be made there rather than here.] **** 1881 "Nedawi"--a short story written by Susette LaFlesche (Omaha Hint: In E-Yeh-Shure ‘s poem ‘Beauty’. The poet is trying to describe the things or persons in which beauty lies. He talked about two different beauties. Firstly, natural beauty lies in nature and other is inner beauty which we human beings possess. The poet is explaining beauty is a word of six alphabets, but it is simple as well as complex in nature. Basically, beauty does not have barriers. The thing which appears beautiful to me, may not appear beautiful to you and vice versa. A Scrapbook of Poetry
The poet says, “Beauty is heard in”
Can you hear beauty? Add a sound that you think is beautiful to the sounds the poet thinks are beautiful.
The poet, Keats, said: Heard melodies are sweet, But those unheard are sweeter.
What do you think this means? Have you ever heard a song in your head, long after the song was sung or played?
Complete answer:
The well-versed poem “Beauty” is a marvellous creation of E-Yeh-Shure. In this poem the central idea focuses on the term beauty. The main stress put on by the poet is on the things or persons where beauty lies. The poet says in the poem that everyone has different perceptions regarding beauty. Some people say it is easy to define beauty, as it simply means beautiful, alluring, fascinating or graceful. On the other hand some will say it is complex to understand the real meaning of beauty because beauty lies in the eyes of beholders.
Yes, we can hear beauty because it can be heard when dry leaves rustle, when a guitarist plays a guitar, when a nightingale sings. We do feel beautiful sounds when little birds twitter. The lovely sound can be felt when an innocent child laughs, when the rain drops fall on the ground or when a soft breeze flows. There are many more things present in nature in which we can see, feel or hear beauty.
The last two lines of the question are extracted from the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats. The poet is saying in these lines that the imaginations are more beautiful than reality because beauty lies