something, so that such things become part of what we all know. I've advocated that subsequent printings of a book where changes were made be noted inside the book, in an author's note or editors note.

I think Dawn was going to talk with her editor about changing that in next printings. The way it has been depicted in mainstream culture is wrong, and people don't know it is wrong. We need more conversations/awareness of so many aspects of so many peoples. For example: more places in the US are having Indigenous Peoples' Day instead of Columbus Day because there's a growing awareness about who he was and what he did. I think sustained conversations mean that more people become aware of stereotyping and when that awareness is big enough, then, things start to change. I've been thinking a lot about how to have sustained conversations about books that have stereotypical content in them, that leads to a new normal (not a great phrase but that's what I've come up with for now). And I think Jean has added it to her review of the book.

I recall a public twitter conversation about Apple in the Middle.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Debbie. Maybe I’m reading too much into this, but there are so many layers of negative symbolism here. I haven’t seen this book, but I wonder if Parker and Ava-who are walking right past the painting without looking up-even notice the Native people? Or are the children entranced only by the “lots of brilliant feathers”-all that remains of the Native peoples-falling to the floor? There are so many “brilliant feathers” that they’re falling out of the sky, off the people’s heads, out of the painting, and onto the museum floor!Īs young Parker looks back and calls to Ava, are the girls going to walk all over the “brilliant” feathers falling to the floor, or pick them up and take them home-or not even see them? In contrast, on the double-page spread by Parker Curry, all have feathers in their hair. In Charles Bird King’s painting of “Young Omahaw, War Eagle, Little Missouri, and Pawnees,” it appears that the five men are wearing blankets or robes, three are wearing roaches, and one has an eagle feather in his roach. “Feathers! Lots and lots of brilliant feathers!”

Parker curry looks up