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This survey of Native American literature from 1772 to 1989 describes types of oral literatures and life histories and evaluates secondary works in the field.

Providing a history of Native American literature from 1772 to the present, this work describes various types of oral literatures and life histories, evaluates secondary works in the field, and includes an extensive selected bibliography. Includes an appendix of important dates in American Indian history. Index.

Presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by ""a commitment to deal with history and attributes of literature in ways that have been slighted in the making of previous literary histories of the United States."" The volume suggests methods for redefining the American literary canon.

This volume of new essays provides the first book-length critical
assessment of the fiction of America's best-known contemporary writer of
Native American heritage.

Louise Erdrich is arguably the most prolific and prominent contemporary
writer of American Indian descent in North America today. Her novels and
short stories have won great critical acclaim and are widely taught in
American and world literature courses.

This collection of original ssays focuses on Erdrich's writings rooted
in the Chippewa experience. Premier scholars of Native American...

George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818-69), an Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. His colorful, kaleidoscopic life took him from the tiny Ojibwe village of his youth to the halls of state legislatures throughout the eastern United States and eventually overseas. Copway converted to Methodism as a teenager and traveled throughout the Midwest as a missionary, becoming a forceful and energetic spokesperson for temperance and the rights and sovereignty of Indians, lecturing to large crowds in the...