And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Note: Please respond to Barb Landis, not Native News..thank you, Ish Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:22:20 -0400 From: Landis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi. I am not in the habit of using these mailing lists for the INDIAN HELPER for other purposes, but I'm making an exception tonight. I send the Carlisle weeklies to 9 lists of recipients of about 250 email addresses. You are an eclectic group, to be sure. Some of you are relatives and/or direct descendants of Carlisle Indian School students and school administrators (including Pratt, the founder), some of you are descendants and/or alumni of other U.S. government off-reservation boarding schools, some of you are writers, producers, academics and/or researchers preparing books, films and dissertations, some of you are my close friends curious about my work, and others of you are strangers to me who have written for information about the Carlisle school. I'm troubled about a recent publication. A children's book, MY HEART IS ON THE GROUND, recently appeared in bookstores and classrooms, part of Scholastic Publications' DEAR AMERICA series. The author spent about a week at Carlisle Barracks, researching some of the early school newspapers. She visited the Indian Cemetery, and based her characters on real children buried there, using their names. Misappropriating Indian culture certainly is not a new phenomenon. Carlisle "experts" during the early life of the school presented literature that crossed the bounds of propriety in the interest of influencing returning students (a la Marianna Burgess' book STIYA). That it is still happening - that history repeats itself and for such an impressionable audience is what troubles me. I invite you to have a look at a very critical review of this book and let me know your thoughts. The review is posted on the Oyate web pages at http://www.oyate.org/avoid.htm. Thanks for your indulgence. Sincerely, Barbara Landis Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
