COMPILED & REVIEWED BY CLAUDIA A. FOX TREE, M.Ed (Arawak). Here are resources I recommend in courses I teach about Native Americans - like book lists, websites, video clips, music/songs, curriculum ideas, and other thoughts thrown in for explanation… Mostly, this blog is a place to present truths and perspectives about the Indigenous People of the Western Hemisphere (with particular focus on the Caribbean) not easily found in other places.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Books about Arawak/Taino and Contact
Books about the Caribbean
Hispanic literature overlap
Lesson plans and resources
Links to videos
While I don't think there is an "excellent" book, I do think that there are some good starting points. Some of the ones listed below are nonfiction and some are historical fiction. I listed traditional stories about the Arawak/Taino and some about our encounter with Columbus. The reading probably ranges from grades 1-5.
On this Beautiful Island by Edwin Fontanez
The Golden Flower: A Taino Myth From Puerto Rico by Nina Jaffe
TAINO:Guanin's Story by Edwin Fontanez
Encounter by Jane Yolen
Morning Girl by Michael Dorris
Atariba and Niguayona: A Story from the Taino People of Puerto Rico by Harriet Rohmer, Guerrero Rea Jesus, Jesus Guerrero Rea, and Consuelo Mendez Castillo
Golden Tales by Lulu Delacre
Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 by Edwidge Danticat