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Doris Seale
Doris Seale is a Santee Dakota and Cree educator who has written extensively on the issues of identifying books about Native Americans that send negative and harmful messages to children. Her work has helped to educate teachers, educators and librarians about how to make sensitive and informed choices about works purporting to represent Native American people and cultures.
Online resources by or about Doris Seale:
Review of The People Shall Continue
Author: Doris Seale
Type: bookreview
Description: From Paula Giese's Native Books website, Doris Seale reviews The People Shall Continue by Simon Ortiz.
URL: http://www.kstrom.net/isk/books/middle/mi216.html
Books by Doris Seale:
Seale, Doris. Caucasian Americans : Basic Skills Workbook
Berkeley, CA : Oyate, 1994.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: Illustrated by Annie Esposito. A workbook for learning about sensitivity, done in a style that parodies school workbooks written about Native people.
Audience: All Ages
Seale, Doris. How to Tell the Difference: A Checklist for Evaluating Children's Books for Anti-Indian Bias
New Society Publishers, 1992.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: Co-authored by Beverly Slapin and Rosemary Gonzalez. 32 p. : ill. ; 8-1/2 x 11.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 1-55092-163-0
Seale, Doris. Little Whitepeople
Berkeley, CA : Oyate, 1995.
Description: Illustrated by Annie Esposito. Parody of the children's counting books that have been written using Native American people as objects of rhyming alphabet lessons.
Seale, Doris. The Multicolored Mirror: Cultural Substance in Literature for Children and Young Adults
CCBC/Highsmith Press, 1991.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: Edited by Merri V. Lindgren. Proceedings from a University of Wisconsin conference on multicultural literature held in 1989 includes an essay by Doris Seale.
Audience: Adult
Seale, Doris. Thanksgiving : a native perpsective
Berkeley, CA : Oyate, 1998.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 101 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
"Compiled and written by Doris Seale (Santee/Cree), Beverly Slapin and Carolyn Silverman (Cherokee/Blackfoot)."
Audience: Adult
Seale, Doris. Through Indian eyes : the native experience in books for children
Philadelphia, Pa : New Society Publishers, 1992.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 312 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Juvenile literature. Literary collections. Juvenile literature--Book reviews. American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism. Indians of North America--Public opinion. Stereotype (Psychology)--United States.
Audience: Youth
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