The Occasional Paper Series, published twice yearly, is a forum for work that extends, deepens and challenges the progressive legacy on which Bank Street College is built. The series seeks to promote discussion about what it means to educate in a democracy and to meet the interrelated demands of equity and excellence.
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Current Issue: Number 54
(2025)
Why Indigenous Children's and Young Adult Literature Matter
Full Issue
Articles
Introduction: Why Indigenous Children’s and Young Adult Literature Matters
Joaquin Muñoz and Dawn Quigley
An Indigenous Feminist Reading Praxis for Imagining Anti-Colonial Futurities: Honouring the Spirit and Intent of Katherena Vermette’s Writings
Jennifer Brant, Erenna Morrison, Jasmine Rice, and Gayatri Thakor
Nurturing Authentic Indigenous Voices in Indigenous Children’s and Young Adult Literature: An Aotearoa New Zealand Case Study
Nicola Daly, Julie Barbour, Darryn Joseph, Te Kani Price, Pania Tahau-Hodges, Kawata Teepa, Nic Vanderschantz, Eboni Waitere, and Bryony Walker
The Legacy of Language: Indigenous Language in Children’s Fiction
Christine Hartman Derr
Making Connections to the Local: Exploring the Role of Indigenous Literature in Early Childhood Education
Lori Huston, Dr. Jan Hare, Ashleigh Janis, and Leigh Kweon
“We Sing Too:” Pedagogical Approaches for Listening to Children in Indigenous Picturebooks
Rachel Stubbs, Anja Dressler Araujo, Kari Dressler, Jadyn Fischer-McNabb, Aubrey Hanson, and Erin Spring
Utilizing and Creating Indigenous Children’s Literature to Reclaim the Endangered Hoche Language
Jue Wang
The Role of Native and Non-Native Teachers in Selecting Children’s Literature by Native Authors
Trisha Moquino, Katie Kitchens, Laini Szostkowski, Tiffany Jewell, and Debbie Reese
Kryptonian Frybread
Byron Graves
The world doesn’t look just one way
Kim Spencer
The Healing Power of Diverse Voices
Brian Lee Young
Guest Editors
- Joaquin Muñoz
- Dawn Quigley
Joaquin Muñoz is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Chicano, cisgender, and hetero-male. He lives on the ancestral and unceded land and waters of the Hulnkamena-speaking Musqueam Peoples, colonially known as Vancouver, and works at the University of British Columbia. His work involves helping teachers develop conceptual and practical tools to celebrate Indigenous survivance and resistance to settler-colonial logic, all in service to Indigenous communities, families, and youth, towards sovereignty and self-determination.
Dawn Quigley, PhD, and citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe, ND, is an associate professor at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in the Education Department. She taught English and reading for more than 18 years in the K–12 schools along with being an Indian Education program co-director. In addition to her debut coming-of-age young adult novel, Apple in the Middle (NDSU Press), “Joey Reads the Sky” in Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids, the chapter book series Jo Jo Makoons: The Used-to-Be Best Friend (Book #1); Jo Jo Makoons: Fancy Pants (Book #2), Red Bird Danced (forthcoming novel-in-verse), and Native American Heroes (Scholastic Books). Dawn has over 30 published articles, essays, and poems. She lives in Minnesota with her family.