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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTheodore Binnema is criticized for adhering too strictly to and failing to go beyond archival data. Ethnohistory requires that historical documents on primitive peoples be interpreted as influenced by the culture and...
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From: Cheeky Fictions: Laughter and the Postcolonial[(essay date 2005) In this essay, Bowers examines the role of humor in undermining colonialism in texts by Native American writers, including Green Grass, Running Water, Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus, and...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedOnly a few chapters into S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891), believed to be the first novel by a Native American woman, (1) Wynema Harjo, the young daughter of the chief of the Muscogee (Creek)...
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From:Wicazo Sa Review (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVine Deloria Jr., a Standing Rock Sioux citizen, widely considered the leading indigenous intellectual of the past century, walked on in November 2005. Deloria spent most of his adult life in an unrelenting, prodigious,...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMost of us recognize, intuitively if by no other means, that much of the nature poetry being written today is different from that produced by traditional nature poets such as Wordsworth or Whitman. When we read Gary...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Leslie Marmon Silko has attracted wide national and international attention for her writing about the Southwest and the American Indian experience. Her 1977 novel Ceremony along with N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)In Louise Erdrich's third novel, certain members of the Pillager Kashpaw families are behind in paying the government their annual fees on the reserve land that has always been theirs but that is now under government...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAs an American Indian writer, the writing experience can be a strange one. I guess that although Indians have been "out of sight" of the general American social scene for so long, we are not "out of mind," as the saying...
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From:Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn early 1900, Richard Henry Pratt, superintendent of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, invited Zitkala-Sa to travel as a violin soloist with the Carlisle Indian School Band on their tour of the...
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From: UPI NewsTrack[(essay date 7 June 2008) Below, a brief obituary presents highlights of Allen's life and career.] Breakthrough Native American author, feminist and top scholar Paula Gunn Allen died of lung cancer at her California...
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From: Studies in American Indian Literatures[(essay date fall 2005) In the following essay, Schultermandl offers an ecofeminist reading of Solar Storms, expounding on Linda Hogan's critique of the disconnectedness of Western cultures from nature.] Like many...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhat identifies a Creek work, in my mind, in addition to its authorship by a Creek person, is the depiction of geographically specific landscape and the language and stories that are born out of that landscape....
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From:ATQ: 19th century American literature and culture (Vol. 15, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThough Pequot author William Apess has recently begun to receive heightened critical attention, critics have been slow to examine his longest work, Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA people is not defeated until the hearts of its women Are on the ground. Traditional Cheyenne saying In novels such as Winter in the Blood, The Indian Lawyer, and The Death of Jim Loney, James Welch has painted...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)The poetry of Simon J. Ortiz is a powerful and moving record of a Native American who is an alien in his own land. In "A Designated National Park," he writes, "This morning,/I have to buy a permit to get back home." The...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)At midcareer Joy Harjo continues to develop as a writer, having moved from the competent, though occasionally predictable, language of the early poems ("I give you, my beautiful and terrible/fear") to work that resembles...
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From:The American Indian Quarterly (Vol. 25, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn his autobiographical book, The Middle Five, Omaha informant and ethnographer Francis LaFlesche relates a simple scene redolent with meaning. The book focuses on LaFlesche's experiences at the mission school he...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRunning on the Edge of the Rainbow: Laguna Stories and Poems, a video film issued in 1978 by the University of Arizona as part of the series Native Literature from the American Southwest, features a combination of...
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From:Novels for Students[Bennett is a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Santa Barbara and has published essays on various postcolonial and Native American authors in academic journals. In the following essay, he analyzes how...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 77, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Jake imagined the still shadow of the trout, like a dark flame, finning down there in the current and then the shy, circling rise of the fish. A communication between worlds, a seduction of life from one realm into...