April 22, 2019
Kirkus (a Kirkus star)
"An excellent read, dismantling American mythologies and fostering critical reasoning about history and current events."
June 1, 2019
Booklist (starred review)
"Built-in prompts call upon readers to reflect and think critically about their own prior knowledge. Terms like “settler” and “civilization” are called into question. Text is broken up by maps, photographs, images by Native artists, propaganda, and primary-source texts that provide more evidence of the depth to which the U.S. economy was—and still is—rooted in the destruction of Indigenous lives."
June 30, 2019
School Library Journal (starred review)
"Engaging sidebars with headers such as “To Do” or “Did You Know?” provide additional details about the chapter’s topic or suggest critical thinking activities."
July 8, 2019
Cooperative Center for Children's Books (book of the week)
"Imagine that everything we know about U.S. history has been filtered through a kaleidoscope stuck on the lens of American exceptionalism. Now imagine the kaleidoscope comes unstuck, or breaks altogether."
July 30, 2019
Shelf Awareness (review)
"There are also clever suggestions for activities that apply the content to young readers' experiences, such as asking them to revise the musical Hamilton to include Indigenous characters."
August 2, 2019
Rich In Color (blog review)
"This is a look into the history of this country that all people should experience. Teachers of all levels should be aware of this history along with young people."
August 4, 2019
Indigo's Bookshelf: A group review
Note from Debbie: this is the review I most wanted to see. It was what I hoped for: critical and unflinching.
August 4, 2019
Indian Country Today
Rewriting the Indigenous Stories for Children
September 5, 2019
Kidlit These Days Episode 13 (podcast)
An Indigenous Peoples' History
Hosts Matthew Winner and Karina Glaser talk with Debbie and Jean "about looking honestly at history, tribal land acknowledgements, and engaging young people in the history going on today."
September 24, 2019
The Classroom Bookshelf (blog review)
Rethinking U.S. History Through an Indigenous Lens
Mary Ann Capiello reviews the book and suggests a number of directions students can go for in-depth studies of history, writers' craft, etc.
October 1, 2019
American School Board Journal
Q&A: Curriculum specialists on the need for accurate Indigenous history instruction
November 3, 2019
HRP (Human Restoration Project) Books of the Month for November
Former US history teacher Chris McNutt reviews IPH4YP, calling it "the antithesis of textbook whitewashing."
November 18, 2019
School Library Journal
Best Nonfiction 2019: SLJ Best Books
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People is one of 18 books selected for the list.
November 18, 2019
r/AskHistorians: the portal for public history (Reddit)
AMA on An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People (accessible only if you join Reddit)
Debbie and Jean answered questions about the book and about Indigenous history.
November 22, 2019
Time Magazine
"I was teaching a lot of misconceptions." The way American kids are learning about the "First Thanksgiving" is changing.
In addition to addressing the history of the Thanksgiving observance, the article mentions IPH4YP: "The young readers' edition of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese, was released in July 2019." [Note: Print version is slightly different.]
November 26, 2019
Chicago Public Library's Best Informational Books of 2019 for Older Readers
"The Chicago Public Library recommends this title as one of the very best informational books published for kids in 4th through 8th grade in 2019."
New York Public Library Best Books for Teens
The NYP describes IPH4YP as "stories of resistance and resilience you likely didn't learn in school."
Nov. 27, 2019
HuffPost
6 Things Every Non-Native Should Do on Thanksgiving
The article quotes Jana's Schmeiding's recommendation that parents "decolonize their thinking" and teach their children by reading An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; Schmeiding also mentioned the adaptation.
December 13, 2019
The Educator's Playbook
Best Books for Young Readers 2019
Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, and author of The Dark Fantastic) and her team selected works that deal with "issues like gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, and socioeconomic class in ways that are real and empathetic."
January 13, 2020
Rethinking Schools, Winter 2020
Resources, p. 58
The magazine's list of resources for educators includes IPH4YP, with text that says it "represents a fundamental challenge to the countless U.S. history textbooks that celebrate "liberty," "freedom," and the "rise of the American nation," but fail to recognize the humanity -- or often even the existence -- of the Indigenous peoples who were here first, and are still here."
January 2020
TeachingBooks
Meet-the-Author Recording with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
In this recording (just over 3 minutes), Roxanne shares some background information about An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, including her hope that the book will spur action in defense of Native peoples' land rights, water rights, and treaty rights, and enable "reconceptualizing a future United States that would be based upon legitimizing the Indigenous presence as central to its future."
January 23, 2020
CCBC Choices (Click on CCBC Choices 2020 for a downloadable copy of this year's list.)
IPH4YP is one of 245 titles published in 2019, selected as "best of" by the librarians at the Cooperative Center for Children's Books in Madison, WI.
January 27, 2020
American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Award
In 2020, AILA's youth literature awards were given at the midwinter meeting of the American Library Association for the first time. Fourteen books received awards, with top honors going to Hearts Unbroken (by Cynthia Leitich Smith, Muscogee), Indian No More (Charlene Willing McManis, Umpqua, and Traci Sorrell), and Bowwow Powwow (Brenda J. Child, Red Lake Ojibwe; translation by Gordon Jourdain, Lac La Croix First Nation; illustrated by Jonathan Thunder, Red Lake Ojibwe). IP4YP was an honor book in the YA category.
January 28, 2020
Indian Country Today
'Empower Native Kids to Read'
Aliyah Chavez (Kewa Pueblo) mentions IPH4YP in her coverage of this year's American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Awards.
January 29, 2020
The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and CBC (Children's Book Council)
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People
IPH4YP is one of the titles selected for 6th to 8th grade. As of 1/29/2020, the link goes to a preview document. The final list, available in May, will include annotations plus links to social studies standards. When that happens we'll quote from those comments about the book.
January 30, 2020
Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
Notable Children's Books - 2020
IPH4YP is listed under Older Readers: "This unflinching adaptation makes crucial history accessible for children and teens."
February 3, 2020
The Horn Book
Review of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
Editor Roger Sutton writes, "Wide-ranging and politically engaged, with chapters including 'Culture of Conquest,' 'Jefferson, Jackson, and the Pursuit of Indigenous Homelands,' and 'Indigenous Action, Indigenous Rights' and peppered throughout with informative sidebars, the book will be a valuable resource for American History curricula for middle and high school students."
February 6, 2020
Teaching Tolerance
"The New YA"
Julia Delacroix's article gives examples of educators using IPH4YP, A Queer History of the United States for Young People, and similar books that encourage decolonized critical thinking.
February 18, 2020
In the Margins Book Awards 2020
The In the Margins awards committee named IPH4YP as one of its 2020 Top Ten titles.
March 3, 2020
Cynsations blog
"Native Voices: Co-authors Dr. Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza on Writing History"
Interviewer Kim Rogers (Wichita and Affiliated Tribes) asks Debbie & Jean about the process of adapting IPH4YP, how educators are using the book, and what they hope readers will gain from it.
April 8, 2020
IPH4YP was named a 2020 Paterson Prize Honor Book by the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College.
March 25, 2021
The Zinn Education Project's "tribute" to IPH4YP features review excerpts and links to several excellent resources about Indigenous peoples' history.
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