Native Library Book Requests
Literature and Mentoring: Incarcerated Youth in South Dakota
LAMIYSD, library book donations
c/o Cynthia Tjaden and Terri Fried
STAR Academy
12279 Brady Drive
Custer SD 57730
The address above will accept books to build the two libraries for incarcerated youth in South Dakota. There is a boys' camp and a girls' camp. They've allowed us in to work with the youth inside for a number of years and direct a mentorship program for them pairing writers up with youth in email/letter exchange with poetry and writing exercise/critique exchange. It is South Dakota, so despite the fact that the white/Indian crime ratio is equal per capita for youth, an extremely higher number of the Native youth are incarcerated after the fact (also other youth of color). (For anyone who is sensitive about statements such as this, the fact has been documented and proven in courts of law and by legal committee in SD.) Thus, many of the youth herein are Native youth (regardless of discrepancy).
---posted by Allison Hedge Coke <emailahc@yahoo.com>
27 March 2006
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San Jose Native TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families).
Kelly Gamboa
Program Coordinator, TANF
Bay Area Regional Office
490 North First Street
San Jose CA 95112-4043
<kgamboa@washoetanf.org>
I recently did a reading at the new San Jose Native TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families). Kelly Gamboa, the Program Coordinator, did a great job setting up this reading, and the room was packed with Indian people from the surrounding areas, who gave me a warm and enthusiastic welcome. I read against a backdrop of empty bookcases, because funds for such things are limited. However, Kelly is working hard to collect books by Native authors, and books about Native peoples, to be loaned out to the community. I told her I'd try to help! Bev Slapin came to the reading, so Kelly is already hooked up with Oyate, but of course they are non-profit too and can only do so much. So if you have any extra copies of Native authored literature, please send to the above address. Don't worry about whether she already has "that" book -- I'm sure plenty of these books will walk out the door, as we say, and that's all to the good.
--posted by Deborah Miranda <MirandaD@wlu.edu>
28 March 2006
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I Can Read, I Can Do Anything:
A National Reading Club for Native American Children
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ifican/index.htm
Loriene Roy is running for president of the ALA. She is Anishinaabe from White Earth--I believe one of Kim Blaeser's relations.
---posted by Allison Hedge Coke <emailahc@yahoo.com>
28 March 2006
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National Directory of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/aip/leadershipgrant/directory/directory.shtml
---posted by Allison Hedge Coke <emailahc@yahoo.com>
28 March 2006
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Contact: Robert Nelson
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