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New book uses “Indian Princess” stereotype. Author created Native story

New book uses “Indian Princess” stereotype. Author created Native story and petroglyphs to fit her fiction. The latter are author’s creative license, but there is already far too much fiction that misrepresents Native people. Why add to it?.

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New book uses “Indian Princess” stereotype. Author created Native story

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  1. New book uses “Indian Princess” stereotype. Author created Native story and petroglyphs to fit her fiction. The latter are author’s creative license, but there is already far too much fiction that misrepresents Native people. Why add to it?

  2. 2013 Cooperative Children’s Book Center, University of Wisconsin 34 books by/about American Indians/First Nations Reese analysis (research in progress) First sample: Fiction published in US, N=14

  3. Major publishers: 6 books, 5 with serious problems

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