CNN's Soledad O'Brien to highlight ISU's fall speaker series Aug 9, 2009
Other speakers on tap this fall include pop-culture economist Steven Levitt, who wrote "Freakonomics;" Morgan Spurlock, whose fast-food experiment resulted in the film "Super Size Me;" as well as novelist Louise Erdrich; nationally recognized teacher Rafe Esquith; and Hemingway expert Susan Beegel ... Oct. 22 - "Q & A with Louise Erdrich," 3 p.m., Milner Library, main floor. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
New in paperback: Biography of the first lady and more Jun 4, 2009
Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (Harper Perennial, $14. 99, fiction, reprint). (USA Today -- Life)
Library to receive grant May 20, 2009
Grades 4 to 6: "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich; "American Tall Tales" by Mary Pope Osborne; "On the Wings of Heroes" by Richard Peck; "Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule" by Harriette Gillem Robinet; "The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe" by Roland Smith. Grades 7 to 8: "The Life and Death of Crazy Horse" by Russell Freedman; "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving; "La leyanda de Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving (translated by Manual Broncano); "Across... (Yanceyville Caswell Messenger, NC)
UND will seek new identity May 15, 2009
Nationally known author and North Dakota native Louise Erdrich rejected honors from UND because of the school s continued use of the Fighting Sioux brand. Enough was enough. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Coming to grips May 14, 2009
Middleton told the board members he was trying to come to grips with their action at the last board meeting rejecting three Native American novels Fools Crow by author James Welch, The Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie and Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. The books were recommended for use at Laurel High School by him, the director of curriculum, the high school principal, the chair of the high school English department and a high school curriculum review committee made... (Laurel Outlook, MT)
Will ‘Fools Crow' return to Laurel classrooms? Mar 26, 2009
The other two books were The Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie and Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. By a 5-2 vote, the board postponed a recommendation by Underwood and Superintendent Josh Middleton to approve the books. (Laurel Outlook, MT)
