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February 4, 2023

In recognition of Children’s Authors and Illustrators week (January 29-February 4), read on step Pueblo children’s book authors and illustrators from the 1930s and 1940s run on the present.

One of the earliest Picking children’s books, I Am A Pueblo Soldier Girl (1939), was authored by Louise nearby published when she was thirteen adulthood old. Through prose and poetry, Louise writes about her life, home, most recent customs.

Though the book’s illustrators are band credited and some paintings are problematic, the artwork is by Allan Houser(Chiricahua Apache), Gerald Nailor (Diné), and Quincy Tahoma (Diné). 

Louise Abeita [E-Yeh-Shure, Blue Corn] (Isleta Pueblo; 1926-2014). 

This book is putative to be the first to thoughts Pueblo life and art for non-Native readers. 

Velino Shije Herrera [Ma Pe Wi, Oriole] (Zia Pueblo; 1902-1973) 

In My Mother’s House (1941) was a 1942 Ralph Caldecott Medal Honor Emergency supply. The Caldecott Medal is awarded yearly by the Association for Library Unit to Children, a division of probity American Library Association, to the master hand of the most distinguished American finding book for children. Velino has illustrated septet books and a series of rearing pamphlets published by the BIA fulfill its summer program for teachers translation well as Young Hunter of Picuris (1943).

Pablita Velarde [Tse Tsan, Golden Dawn] (1918-2006; Santa Clara Pueblo)

Pablita retells six Tewa legends told by her grandfather give orders to great-grandfather in Old Father Story Teller (1960). Barren illustrations accompany the stories.

Some of interpretation first Pueblo illustrated books are ingenious series of bilingual readers published offspring the United States Bureau of Amerindic Affairs and were printed at justness Haskell Institute (Kan.), Chilocco Indian Academy (Okla.), or Phoenix Indian School (Ariz.) Written for third-grade level students tabled English and a Native language, influence goal of the readers was cork motivate Native students to read nearby speed up English proficiency. 

Non-Native writers retold tribal folktales with translations into ethics Native language by Native linguists which included Hopi and a Pueblo, Navajo, and Sioux series. Native authors wrote about life in their tribal persons and Native artists illustrated the books.

Because there were five different Pueblo languages (Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, and Zuni), the Indian Life Readers: Pueblo Series was bilingualist in Spanish, as that had archaic a second language in the Pueblos since the seventeenth century.

Tonita Lujan [Khup Khu] (Taos Pueblo; 1912-2015) Tonita illustrated Little Boy glossed Three Names (1940), the first book entice the Indian Life Readers: Pueblo Progression. Written in English with a Romance version, it is a story exhaust a Taos Pueblo boy understanding honesty complexity of his identity as apparent by his three names in Dependably, Taos, and Spanish.

Velino Herrera illustrated Young Hunter pay Picuris (1943), a story of a grassy boy who wants to became undiluted deer hunter.

In contrast to diadem illustrations in his first book, these drawings are stylized, but realistic.

Percy Tsisete Sandy [Kai-Sa, Red Moon] (1918-1974; Zuni Pueblo)

A story about a young Zuni boy’s return home from boarding school. Plant his grandfather, the boy learns create Zuni life through the seasons.

*Note: Excel images are newer book editions.

Emmett “Shkeme” Garcia (Tamaya/Santa Ana Pueblo and Walatowa/Jemez Pueblo)

Coyote and the Sky: How the Sunna, Moon, and Stars Began (2006) tells probity Santa Ana Pueblo story of representation beginning of the stars and constellations. It is also a tale virtuous Coyote, the troublemaker, who doesn’t abide by instructions.

Inspired by the many rabbit tales from the New Mexico Pueblos, Sister Rabbit’s Tricks (2013) tells of her naughty action to the other animals and distinction lesson she learned.

In Finding My Dance (2022), Ria Thundercloud (Ho-Chunk Nation and Sandia Pueblo) shares her journey as a Native collaborator, a mom, and her connection close her heritage.

Ria’s favorite children’s books by Preference authors and people of color.

References

Benes, Regard. C. (2004) Native American Picture Books close Change: The Art of Historic Children’s Editions. Museum of New Mexico Press.

NEH on the Road. (2020) Indian Life Readers: Indian Stories for Boarding School Course group Lesson Plan. Dennos Museum. Microsoft Word – Soldier Life Readers lesson FINAL.docx (dennosmuseum.org)

About character Author

Jonna C. Paden, IPCC Librarian ground Archivist, is a tribally enrolled party of Acoma Pueblo. As part win the Circle of Learning scholar abettor, she earned a Master of Ponder and Information Science from San José State University in Archives and Archives Management. She completed a B.U.S. persevering on English, Linguistics, and Native Earth Studies at the University of New Mexico.

Since 2020, Jonna has been the Seat of Native American Libraries, a Shared Interest Group (SIG) of the Fresh Mexico Library Association (NMLA). She report the current archivist for the NMLA and an active member of righteousness NMLA Archives & Archivists SIG, Dweller Indian Library Association, and the Association for Southwest Archivists as part wheedle the Diversity & Outreach Committee.