Charles Alexander Eastman A. LaVonne Ruoff A. Lavonne Brow
The stories in Old Indian Days focus mainly on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in prereservation times, when contact with whites was minimal. Charles A. Eastman, a mixed-blood Sioux who earned renown as the author of nearly a dozen books, was on home ground in writing about the traditional life of his people, their customs, warm family relations, reverence for animals, and struggle for survival. Originally published in 1907, Old Indian Days alludes to historical figures like Little Crow and Tamahay and to an event that Eastman experienced as a small boy, the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota....
The stories in Old Indian Days focus mainly on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in prereservation times, when contact with whites was minimal. Charles...
E. Pauline Johnson A. LaVonne Ruoff Pauline E. Johnson
Long before American Indian women's literature achieved its current popularity, the writings of E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) pioneered the field. A mixed-blood of Mohawk-English descent, Johnson gained renown for literary recitals and theatrical performances in Canada, England, and the United States, being billed at the turn of the century as the "Mohawk Princess." Many of Johnson's stories in The Moccasin Maker depict nineteenth-century Indian women caught between the forces of cultural continuity and the pressures of assimilation.
Long before American Indian women's literature achieved its current popularity, the writings of E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) pioneered the field....
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.
Presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by ""a commitment to deal with history and attributes of li...
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.
Providing a history of Native American literature from 1772 to the present, this work describes various types of oral literatures and life histories, ...
