Image Nina

only search Oyate

About Us
Our policy statement
Frequently Asked Questions
How  you can help

About Us

Resources
Workshop
Our catalog
Order form
 

Books to avoid


 

Copyright © 1990-2007
by Oyate.
All rights reserved.

Humor

Slapin, Beverly, and Annie Esposito, Basic Skills Caucasian Americans Workbook. 1994, b/w illustrations.

“Little short of extraordinary.”
–Maude Hitchens,
Aloha, Aloha, We Have Been to Samoa

“Profound scholarship.”
–John J. Knucklebones, Ph.D, The Sacred and the Profane: Studies in Ancient White Art

“Slapin and Esposito have caught the magic of the Caucasian. May their 'talking leaves' take you into the Caucasian world of mystery and beauty.”
–Doris M. Seale, Former Curator Emeritus, Museum of the American Caucasian

“The graphics are breathtaking!”
–Bunny Haught-Mifflin, White Faces, White Places

“I don't get it.”
–Dan Quail
pb 13.00


Slapin, Beverly, and Annie Esposito, 10 Little Whitepeople. 1995, b/w illustrations.

“There is a great deal of information and entertainment packed into this unusual counting book...”
Publisher's Yearly

“[T]eachers looking for picture books that cut across the curriculum will find this a good way to combine a unit on Whitepeople with counting.”
Bookmark

“Hurray! At long last primary school educators and lovers of children's literature have an accurate Caucasian American book written for primary children.”
The Five Porcupines

“A hit for children ages 2-6 [and] teachers will love this one, too.”
American Book Reviewer

“I still don't get it.”
–Dan Quail
pb 5.00


The Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour. 1998, 24 15-minute episodes, high school-up.

So, Jasper Friendly Bear applied for a photography grant, didn't get it, applied for a powwow grant, didn't get it. Got an hour-long radio show (well, actually, 45 minutes short of an hour), which is broadcast live (sort of) from Gracie Heavy Hand's Dead Dog Café and hosted by Tom King (sort of). Each 15-minute episode contains (well, more or less):

  • Gracie's Authentic Traditional Aboriginal Recipes (includes puppy stew, fried bologna, and Kraft Dinners)
  • Tom's Traditional Aboriginal Decorating Tips (includes using a stuffed moose and building a smoke-hole)
  • Trust Tonto
  • The Blockade Report (for tourists who want to avoid Indian blockades or maybe find them )
  • Friendly Bear's Blackout Bingo (play bingo at home, send in the card, win a nifty prize)
  • What Else Do You Do? (interviews with famous Indians, including Louis Riel, maybe)
  • Spin the Wheels for Authentic Indian Names
  • White Wisdom and What to Do About It
  • 10 Reasons Why It's Good to Have Indians in Canada
  • Fireside Friendly Bear
  • Indians Anonymous (12-step program for Indians who have been living white and are threatening to revert to being Indian
  • The Adventures of Darnell About Time, Band Councilor

CD 25.00


Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour, vol. 2. 1999, 24 15-minute episodes, high school-up.

If you liked Dead Dog Cafe, you'll want to join your host Tom King (who thinks he's cerebral) and Jasper Friendly Bear and Gracie Heavy Hand, as they (among other things)

  • give detailed instructions for making a genuine bear-claw necklace out of cashew nuts,
  • bestow an authentic Indian name on a white person's bicycle, and
  • scour Canada trying to find a rich Indian.

Also Jasper changes the bingo number a couple times.
CD 25.00


Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour, vol. 3. 2000, 16 15-minute episodes, high school-up.

So you think you’ve heard the last from Jasper Friendly Bear, Gracie Heavy Hand, and their faithful urban Indian companion, Tom King? So you think there’s no life after Indians Anonymous and golf is only for rich white people? So you think powwow music just can’t get any better and Captain Dead Dog has had his day? Au contraire (that’s French for “on the contrary”). In volume 3,

  • Hear how Jasper’s clever switch to Blackout Bingo saves Tom’s life, what with his cavalier attitude about the difference between fry bread and bannock.
  • Hear Tom, still thinking he’s cerebral (urban Indians!), say ”That’s Machiavellian!”
  • Listen as Tom comes to terms with existential thought patterns as he learns that the beauty of Native philosophy is that not everything means something.
  • Hear Gracie suggest how to turn treaties into wallpaper and used bingo dabbers into objects d’art (that’s “art objects” in French).
  • Hear Jasper spin the Spirit Wheel for Authentic Spirit Vegetables to go with the Authentic Indian Names for white people.
  • Hear Gracie’s Conversational Cree for simple but useful phrases, such as “Please ask the chauffeur to bring the car around” and “How long will we be in court?”

So sit back and relax, clear you mind and pretend that you’re better off than you really are. Cue the blazing fire...
CD 25.00


Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour, vol. 4. 2000, 12 15-minute episodes, high school-up

It's (sob!) the end of the road for the Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour; the grant has finally run out. After barely surviving Wilderness Golf when he falls off a cliff trying to rescue Japer's golf ball, Tom is back, perfecting the combination of white whining and privileged outrage. (Gracie says this comes naturally.) So while you can (sob!), join Gracie, Jasper, and Tom in their ever-popular (and ever growing) segments, including Indians Anonymous (helping Indians escape the confines of Native life and crawl into the bowels of white society), Conversational Cree, the Traveling Trinket Show, Powwow Karaoke, Trust Tonto, and What Else Do You Do? Plus, the Jasper Institute, the aboriginal think-tank whose motto is “Better Living through Elasticity“ and its Truth and Reconciliation Commission, some special surprises that involve singing (sort of), and finally (sob!)...Stay calm. Be brave. Wait for the signs.
CD 25.00