Back in ‘17, I was looking at completing my grad school experience at the North Cascades. At the time, I was the “blog writer” for NCI. Because of that job I had discovered that I did enjoy writing, especially in the less formal “blog” format. So I bought my own website to make Rooted in Dreams.

One of the series of blogs that I wanted to focus on was Literature Appetizer. It became a good way for me to process the books I read, even if no one read those posts. But I always felt weird when I read “smaller” or not Environmental Education based books. Should I put that on the website, even if it is only a few sentences?

This is an experiment; combining all Lit-Apps for a season into one post. Let me know your thoughts!

Growing up in Western Pennsylvania, I was told that the “Indians used to live here, but now they don’t. There was some fighting but not a lot.” I never serious questioned the history I was told until I went to the North Cascades. One of my cohort mates belonged to a federally recognized tribe and started to show me how lacking my education was.

I learned more from An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz than I learned throughout my 14 years in public education. While I think it is a great book for folks around the world to read, I fully believe this should be required reading for all American students in our Public School system.