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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
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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
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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):
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Gracie's Authentic Traditional Aboriginal
Recipes (includes puppy stew, fried bologna, and Kraft Dinners)
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Tom's Traditional Aboriginal Decorating Tips
(includes using a stuffed moose and building a smoke-hole)
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Trust Tonto
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The Blockade Report (for tourists who want
to avoid Indian blockades or maybe find them )
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Friendly Bear's Blackout Bingo (play bingo
at home, send in the card, win a nifty prize)
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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
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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
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Dead Dog Café Comedy Hour, vol. 3.
2000, 16 15-minute episodes, high school-up.
So you think youve heard the last from Jasper
Friendly Bear, Gracie Heavy Hand, and their faithful urban Indian
companion, Tom King? So you think theres no life after Indians
Anonymous and golf is only for rich white people? So you think powwow
music just cant get any better and Captain Dead Dog has had
his day? Au contraire (thats French for on the
contrary). In volume 3,
- Hear how Jaspers clever switch to Blackout Bingo saves
Toms life, what with his cavalier attitude about the difference
between fry bread and bannock.
- Hear Tom, still thinking hes cerebral (urban Indians!),
say Thats 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 dart (thats 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 Gracies 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 youre better off than you really are. Cue the blazing
fire...
CD 25.00
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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
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