American Indians in Children’s Literature: An

Indigenous Scholar’s Use of Social Media

University of Illinois Community Informatics

Center for Children’s Books___

Wednesday, April 13, 4:00 PMRoom 46, Library and Information Science

“American Indians are not people of color…”

Listservs

ECENET – Harvard Education Letter, 1996

Birthday Bear (April 1997) – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2000

Anne Rinaldi’s My Heart is on the Ground, 1999/2011

2003—a website?

A blog!

AICL stats

Launch: May, 2006

802 posts

Almost 900,000 page views (Sitemeter)

Over 254,000 page views since May, 2010 (Blogger)

Two dissertations

AICL Audience

American Indian/First Nations links

Profs in Children’s Literature – Education/LIS/English

Librarians, parents

Writers in Children’s Literature: Phillip Pullman, Sharon Creech

Native writers: Simon Ortiz, Joseph Bruchac, Cynthia Leitich Smith

What is on AICL?

Recommended Books, Sites, Articles

Traditional Stories• “based on”• interpretations• shelving

Classics, Bestsellers, Holidays• Little House on the Prairie• Twilight• Touching Spirit Bear• Thanksgiving

“Open Letter” posts

Social Media Intersections:AICL and Twitter

April 18, 2010: “What Neil Gaiman said”

Kynn on LiveJournal: “Neil Gaiman Racist Fail”

Gaiman tweets

An internet pile on

Sitemeter data:

Sitemeter data:

Skype

Librarians/Library Classes Ontario, Canada Minnesota Illinois State

Education University of British Columbia Florida Illinois State

The Power of Facebook

What’s next?

Do more with Facebook

Try some podcasts

An Ebook?

Play! Google Search Story