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    Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

    1. Wow. I'm reading an ARC of a story for middle grade readers that has a Ute mother that is an alcoholic. She loses custody of her baby, who she has left in the car while she's in a bar "drunk as a skunk."

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      2. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        2) The baby is placed with a Mormon family. When she turns 4, the Native mother wants her back. ICWA has been passed, so, the White family has to give her up. But, they make terms. One is that it take place gradually.

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      3. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        3) The second term is that the Native mother joins Alcoholics Anonymous so that she stays sober. Honestly--I'm furious that this author and this publisher are doing this book. It is due out later this year.

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      4. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        4) It reminds me of Alexie telling people that if there's not a Native alcoholic in the story, then, it isn't authentic. That's such a destructive thing for him to say. It gives cover to writers who do crap like this.

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      5. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        5) When the White family takes in this baby, they give her a new name: Dorinda, and call her Dori for short. That's another WTF moment for me. Was that a norm in the 70s? For white people to just up and rename a child they were fostering?

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      6. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        6) The author either has no idea that there's a dark history of Native children being given White names at boarding/mission schools, or else knows but doesn't realize that her White characters doing this is not going to be well-received by Native readers who know that history.

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      7. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        7) Another unsettling point is when the 4 year old starts to spend time with her Ute mother and grandmother (she doesn't know these two women are her family). She returns to the White family after an outing and asks what a "squash" is.

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      8. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        8) Irene's mother, the 4 yr old says, lives with someone named "Did She Wash It Yet" who is a squash. Britt (main char) figures out that 4yr old is trying to say "squaw."

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      9. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        9) Irene's mother had told the 4 yr old that she is "an old squaw who loves you very much."pic.twitter.com/GACrQ0RcuG

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      10. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        10) Would a Ute woman call herself a squaw? I doubt it. Why did the author of this book create that?! Oh! Realizing I haven't identified author/book title. The author is Sharlee Glenn; the book is BEYOND THE GREEN.

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      11. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        11) I have lot of notes on the book but am pausing for now. @charlesbridge really ought to pull it before it comes out.

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      12. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        12) It sounds just like Sharlee Mullins Glenn's CIRCLE DANCE, published in 1998 by Deseret Book Company.

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      13. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        13) Before I pause... The author's note says that before 1978, children like Dori (4 yr old) were removed from homes due to neglect or abuse. Some, yes, but ICWA came about because of nefarious removals. This author is misinforming the public.

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      14. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 15 Jul 2018

        14) That author's note is incomplete. It mentions culture and language but not a word about sovereignty. What is the publisher's rationale for bringing it out? They expect it to sell, but, on what basis?! This is terrible.

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      15. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        15) Back on Jul 21 to add to my Jul 15 thread on Glenn's BEYOND THE GREEN. I finished the ARC. Today, I wrote an Open Letter (and tweeted it to the publisher): …https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2018/07/dear-charlesbridge-its-not-too-late.html …

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      16. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        16) In my mail this afternoon was a copy of CIRCLE DANCE, which is the 1998 version of BEYOND THE GREEN. I'm reading through it now. Some minor changes but pretty much the same story.

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      17. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        17) In my Open Letter, I did not note all the problems I've noted in this thread, or the others that I found as I read BEYOND THE GREEN. I may do a follow up blog post, later.

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      18. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        18) One thing I noted that is different: In the 1998 CIRCLE DANCE, the Ute mother is named Irene Uncasam. In the 2018 BEYOND THE GREEN, her name is Irene Uncarow.

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      19. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        19) In CIRCLE DANCE on p. 64, the Ute child, Dori, meets her birth mother (Irene) but doesn't know that's her real mother. She's introduced to her as "Miss Uncasam." Dori says "Your hair is pretty, Uncle Sam."

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      20. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        20) Of course, the Mormon family corrects what Dori said. But that stands out to me because on p. 98 of BEYOND THE GREEN, Dori talks about a "squash" Irene lives with, that is named "Did She Wash It Yet".

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      21. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        21) Glenn uses a 4 year old Ute child's spoken words to mock the Ute names that she (Glenn) gave to the Ute child's mother and grandmother. That is... messed up.

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      22. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        22) The Mormon family corrected the 4 yr old when she said "Uncle Sam" and that happens again. Britta (main char) tells the child not to use the word squaw. I skimmed reviews on Goodreads & NetGalley. Frightening that they don't note these problems!

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      23. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        23) In BEYOND THE GREEN, after Dori has spent a lot of time with Irene and is back with the Mormon family, Dori takes the Mormon mother's face in her hands and says "Mama, you're a white person." In CIRCLE DANCE, it is "Mama, you're a honky."

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      24. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        24) Another change from CIRCLE DANCE to BEYOND THE GREEN is name of an elderly Ute man who Britta (main char) thinks is a drunk. In CD his name is Red Ant Colorow. In BtG his name is Red Hawk Samawop.

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      25. Debbie Reese (tribally enrolled, Nambé Pueblo)‏ @debreese 21 Jul 2018

        25) Some of these changes will strike some people as indicative of growth on author's part, from 1998 to 2018, but the things that are in BtG are so bad that the changes strike me as similar to what Drake did in THE CONTINENT: superficial.

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