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Masterpieces of American Indian Literature
by Willis G. Regier. 624 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

The Life of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh by George Copway (Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh)

Preface

A Word to the Reader

I: Early Life; Woods; Gods; Ojebwa Nation, &c

II: Customs; Father and Mother; Religion of Oiebwas

III: Spirits; Ojebwa Worship; Description, Etc

IV: Omens; Dreams; Anecdote; Devil's Spittle

V: Traditions; Indians and Jews; Migration; Councils

VI: Description of Rice Lake; Rice; Fish; Village, Etc

VII: Missionaries' First Visit; Conversion; Camp Meeting

VIII: My Mother's Conversion and Happy Death; Grief

IX: My Conversion; Beauty of Nature; Lake Superior

X: Kewawenon Mission; Work Spread; Old Anna

XI: Travels to la Pointe; Ottawa Lake; Battle Grounds

XII: Sent to School, Ill , Two Years; New-York; Boston

XIII: Return to Canada; Revivals; Christmas: New- Year

XIV: Wisconsin; Mississippi; Sufferings

XV: Trials; Paid by Government; Journey to Toronto

XVI: General Council; Speeches; Order; Documents, Etc; Manual Labor School; Plan, or Remedy for the Preservation of the Different Tribes

XVII: Geographical Sketch of the Ojebwa Nation; Missions; Presbyterians; Methodists; Baptists; Appeal to Christians in America

XVIII: Letters

The Soul of the Indian by Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa)

II: The Family Altar

III: Ceremonial and Symbolic Worship

IV: Barbarism and the Moral Code

V: The Unwritten Scriptures

VI: On the Border-Land of Spirits

American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Ša (Gertrude Bonnin)

Impressions of an Indian Childhood

The School Days of an Indian Girl

An Indian Teacher among Indians

The Great Spirit

The Soft-Hearted Sioux

The Trial Path

A Warrior's Daughter

A Dream of Her Grandfather

The Widespread Enigma of Blue-Star Woman

America's Indian Problem

Coyote Stories by Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket, Humishuma)

Foreword

Preface

I: The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People

II: Fox and Coyote and Whale

III: Coyote Fights Some Monsters

IV: Chipmunk and Owl-Woman

V: Coyote and the Buffalo

VI: Why the Flint-Rock Cannot Fight Back

VII: How Turtle Got His Tail

VIII: Why Skunk's Tail Is Black and White

IX: Rattlesnake and Salmon

X: Coyote Meets Wind and Some Others

XI: Why Gartersnake Wears a Green Blanket

XII: Coyote Quarrels with Mole

XIII: How Coyote Happened to Make the Black Moss Food

XIV: Why Spider Has Such Long Legs

XV: Why Badger Is So Humble

XVI: Coyote Juggles His Eyes

XVII: Why Marten's Face Is Wrinkled

XVIII: Crawfish and Grizzly Bear

XIX: Coyote and Wood-Tick

XX: Why Mosquitoes Bite People

XXI: The Gods of the Sun and the Moon

XXII: Porcupine Learns the Sun Dance

XXIII: En—am—tues—the Wishing Stone

XXIV: Chickadee Makes a Shoo'-Mesh Bow

XXV: Coyote and Chickadee

XXVI: The Arrow Trail

XXVII: Coyote Imitates Bear and Kingfisher

Notes on the Stories

Black Elk Speaks as Told through John G Neihardt

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Vine Deloria, Jr

Preface

I: The Offering of the Pipe

II: Early Boyhood

III: The Great Vision

IV: The Bison Hunt

V: At the Soldiers' Town

VI: High Horse's Courting

VII: Wasichus in the Hills

VIII: The Fight with Three Stars

IX: The Rubbing out of Long Hair

X: Walking the Black Road

XI: The Killing of Crazy Horse

XII: Grandmother's Land

XIII: The Compelling Fear

XIV: The Horse Dance

XV: The Dog Vision

XVI: Heyoka Ceremony

XVII: The First Cure

XVIII: The Powers of the Bison and the Elk

XIX: Across the Big Water

XX: The Spirit Journey

XXI: The Messiah

XXII: Visions of the Other World

XXIII: Bad Trouble Coming

XXIV: The Butchering at Wounded Knee

XXV: The End of the Dream

Author's Postscript

Appendixes

I: Letter from John G Neihardt to Nick Black Elk, 6 November 1930

II: A Neihardt-Black Elk Portfolio

III: The Origin of the Peace Pipe

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Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
by Cheryl Walker. 262 pgs.

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Preface and Acknowledgments

1. The Subject of America:: The Outsider Inside

2. Writing Indians

3. The Irony and Mimicry of William Apess

4. Black Hawk and the Moral Force of Transposition

5. The Terms of George Copway's Surrender

6. John Rollin Ridge and the Law

7. Sarah Winnemucca's Mediations:: Gender, Race, and Nation

8. Personifying America:: Apess's "Eulogy on King Philip"

The Gift Outright

9. Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms

Appendix: "The Red Man's Rebuke"

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
by Geary Hobson. 420 pgs.

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Remembering the Earth

Adowe: We Return Thanks

Adrian C. Louis

The Witch of Goingsnake

Buffalo Poem #1

The Rise of the White Shaman as A New Version of Cultural Imperialism

Danaga Echodiyi (the War Woman of Chota)

Untitled Journey

Storyteller

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Reminiscing with Pa-Pa (grandmother) About Ka-Tse-Ma

Laura Watchempino

Gallup ("Gallup" Is A Chapter from A Novel in Progress)

The Snakeman

The Bee Hunt

Wendy Rose to Some Few Hopi Ancestors

Silent Afternoon

Eagle Feather I
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Song of the Sky: Versions of Native American Song-Poems
by Brian Swann. 160 pgs.

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'A brilliant display of the amazing range and depth of Native American poetic traditions and a stunning revelation that poetry really is a ubiquitous art--A triumphant work.'--Paul G. Zolbrod, North Dakota Review

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Earliest Recorded Music

Preface to the Revised Edition

Introduction

Notes to Introduction

Foreword

Adaptations from the Work of Natalie Curtis

Adaptations from the Work of Frances Densmore

Adaptations from the Work of John R. Swanton

Adaptations from the Work of Marius Barbeau

Adaptations from the Work of Helen H. Roberts & Herman K. Haeberlin

Adaptations from the Work of Helen H. Roberts & Morris Swadesh

Adaptations from the Work of Helen H. Roberts

Adaptations from the Work of Edward Sapir

Adaptations from the Work of Francis La Flesche

Adaptations from the Work of Janes Mooney

Adaptations from the Work of George Herzog

Adaptations from the Work of Frank G. Speck

Adaptations from the Work of Ruth L. Bunzel

Adaptations from the Work of Frank Russell

Adaptations from the Work of D. Dematracopoulou

Adaptations for the Revised Edition

Adaptations from the Work of Frances Densmore

Adaptation from the Work of Franz Boas

Adaptation from the Work of Herbert Spinden

Adaptation from the Work of Ruth Bunzel

Adaptation from the Work of John Dyneley Prince

Adaptations from the Work of Washington Matthews

Adaptations from the Work of Helen H. Roberts and D. Jenness

Notes to Versions

Notes to Adaptations for the Revised Edition
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Indian Story and Song from North America
by Alice C. Fletcher. 132 pgs.

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The present book, Indian Story and Song from North America (1900), was inspired by enthusiasm for Native American music generated at the Congress of Musicians held in connection with the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, Omaha, July 1898.

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Introduction

Bibliography

Preface.

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Story and Song of The He-Dhu'-Shka.

Story and Song of the Bird's Nest.

A Trysting Love-Song.

Story and Song of the Death- Less Voice.

Story and Song of Zon-Zi'-Mon-De.

The Story and Song of the Wren.

Love Call.

A Game Song from the North- West Coast.

Story and Song of the Indian Coquet.

The Old Man's Love-Song.

Story of the We'-Ton Song.

A Pawnee Love Song

A Warrior's Story and Song.

Sacred Songs of Peace.

Comporting the Child

Indian Story and Song

Indian Story and Song

Music in Indian Life
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Earth's Mind: Essays in Native Literature
by Roger Dunsmore. 234 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Introduction

No Boundaries: On Silko's Ceremony

Sucker: The Circle Back (home)

Earth's Mind

Killing the Water

Nicholas Black Elk: Holy Man in History

Black Sun -- Pure Light

Fusion

Inside Out -- Outside In: The Arrowmaker and the Child

Trud: A Comic Opera with Bloat, (a Voice from Within, or Below)

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Transformation: Sweat Lodge Ritual No. I: A Brief Exercise in Ethno-Poetics

Appendix

Columbus Day Revisited: American Indian Literature & Historical/Linguistic Truth

Works Cited

Index
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Native American Identities: From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature
by Scott B. Vickers. 194 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

1: Introduction Stereotypes and Archetypes

Part I: The language of conquest

2: The Semiology and Psychology of Conquest

3: Wroughten Scoundrels

4: Portraits of Dishonor

5: A Recapitulaion of Indianness

6: The Enchantment of the Disenfranchised

7: Grounds for Mythification

Part II: From Stereotype to Archetype

8: From Western Art to Archetype

9: The Storytellers

10: Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak
by Laura Coltelli. 212 pgs.

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In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, and others. They candidly discuss the debt to old and the creation of new traditions, the proprieties of age and gender, and the relations between Indian writers and non-Indian readers and critics, and between writers and anthropologists and historians.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Paula Gunn Allen

Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris

Joy Harjo

Linda Hogan

N. Scott Momaday

Simon Ortiz

Wendy Rose

Leslie Marmon Silko

Gerald Vizenor

James Welch

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Photo Credits
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American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives (Chap. 1 "American Indian Women's Narratives: The Literary Tradition")
by Gretchen M. Bataille, Kathleen Mullen Sands. 212 pgs.

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1: American Indian Women's Narratives: The Literary Tradition

2: The Ethnographic Perspective: Early Recorders

3: Maria Chona: An Independent Woman in Traditional Culture

4: Culture Change and Continuity: A Winnebago Life

5: Two Women in Transition: Separate Perspectives

6: The Long Road Back: Maria Campbell

7: Traditional Values in Modern Context: The Narratives to Come

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Selected Bibliography

Index
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"The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell": The Power of Women in Native American Literature
by Patrice E. M. Hollarh. 198 pgs.

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From warrior women to female deities who control the cycle of live, female characters in Native American literature exhibit a social and spiritual empowerment that is quite different from the average Pocahontas or squaw we are used to seeing in mainstream literature. This work argues that a tribal construct of gender relations, where the relationship between male and female roles is complementary rather than hierarchical, accounts for the existence of these empowered female characters in Native American literature. Focusing on the work of four of the twentieth century's most famous Native American authors, Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdich and Sherman Alexie, Hollrah suggests that is important to evaluate Native American literary female characters in a cultural paradigm that is less Euro-American and more compatible to the complementary of Native American culture.

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Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction: “writing is Different from Tribe to Tribe”

Chapter 2: The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell

Chapter 3: We Must Be Masters of Our Circumstances

Chapter 4: The Men in the Bar Feared Her

Chapter 5: Women Are Strong, Strong, Terribly Strong

Chapter 6: I'm Talking like a Twentieth-Century Indian Woman

Chapter 7: Conclusion: “indian Women Were and Are Powerful”

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Nature of Native American Poetry
by Norma C. Wilson. 176 pgs.

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The beginning of the twenty-first century marks the maturation of the voices of indigenous poets in the United States. Norma Wilson's appealing and accessible collection of essays is both an introduction to and an enthusiastic celebration of the poetic vistas inhabited by modern Native American writers. Wilson's scope is both broad and specific as she draws from contemporary criticism, tribal histories and folklore, interviews with writers, and, of course, from the poetry itself. Her study is firmly grounded in the oral traditions and personal and tribal histories of the eight poets on whom she focuses. At the same time, Wilson's broad understanding of the literary heritage of East, West, and First nations allows her to place Native American poetry in global and historical context. Wilson points out Native American writers have been influenced by such well known Western 'canon' poets as Blake, Whitman, and Ginsberg. Her study further elucidates the clear mark that Native American literature, culture, and oral-poetic traditions have left on five centuries of British and American literature. This is a guidebook mapping the modern rhythms of our ancient literary landscape.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

1: Chapter: The Nature of Native American Poetry

Chapter 2: The Mythic Continuum: the Poetry of Carter Revard

Chapter 3: Affirmations of Identity: the Poetry of N. Scott Momaday

Chapter 4: Language as a Way of Life: the Poetry of Simon J. Ortiz

Chapter 5: Spirit Voices: the Poetry of Lance Henson

Chapter 6: An Instrument for Song: the Poetry of Roberta Hill

Chapter 7: Translating the World: the Poetry of Linda Hogan

Chapter 8: Nesting in the Ruins: the Poetry of Wendy Rose

Chapter 9: The Ground Speaks: the Poetry of Joy Harjo

Chapter 10: The New Generation

Bibliography

Index
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That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community
by Jace Weaver. 256 pgs.

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In one of the broadest critical readings to date, Jace Weaver takes the body of Native American literature and uses it as a resource for reflection on Native American values and spirituality.

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Chapter One Native American Literatures and Communitism

Chapter Two Occom's Razor and Ridge's Masquerade (18th-19th Century)

Chapter Three Assimilation, Apocalypticism, and Reform (1900-1967)

Chapter Four Indian Literary Renaissance and the Continuing Search for Community (1968-)

Conclusion: Anger Times Imagination

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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The Native American Oral Tradition: Voices of the Spirit and Soul
by Lois J. Einhorn. 188 pgs.

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Einhorn, a rhetorical scholar, explores the rich history of the Native American oral tradition, focusing on stories, orations, prayers, and songs. Because American Indians existed without written language for many generations, their culture was strongly dependent on an oral tradition for continuity and preservation. Not surprisingly, they spent many hours perfecting the art of oral communication and learning methods for committing their messages to memory. Einhorn thoroughly examines the important aspects of this unique oral tradition from a rhetorical perspective, covering individual speakers, nations, and time periods.

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Illustrations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Cultural Assumptions Reflecting and Refining the Oral Tradition

2: Imbuing the Earth with Imagery

3: Speeches of Peace and Protest

4: Stories Planting Sage for the Soul

5: Prayers and Songs of Celebration and Purification

6: The Importance of the Oral Tradition

Conclusion

Notes

Further Reading

Index

About the Author
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The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture
by Arnold Krupat. 149 pgs.

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The Turn to the Native is a long-awaited assessment of Native American studies by one of its leading practitioners. Learned and passionate, the book is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. It is also a polemical intervention by a critic with abiding loyalties to Native American culture and to the Western intellectual heritage that has often been seen as hostile to Native culture and society.

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The Turn to the Native

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Preface

The Turn to the Native

1: Criticism and Native American Literature

2: Postcolonialism, Ideology, and Native American Literature

3: Ratio- and Natio in Gerald Vizenor's Heirs of Columbus

4: Dead Voices, Living Voice: on the Autobiographical Writing of Gerald Vizenor

5: A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Beyond Bounds: Cross-Cultural Essays on Anglo, American Indian, and Chicano Literature
by Robert Franklin Gish. 176 pgs.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE ANGLO VISITORS

INTRODUCTION

Charles F. Lummis and Isleta Pueblo

Erna Fergusson's Travels Toward Exoticism

Harvey Fergusson's Legacy

Witter Bynner, Poet in Adobia

PART TWO INDIAN VOICES

INTRODUCTION

The Word Medicine of James Welch

Listening to Ray A. Young Bear

P A R T THREE CHICANO VISTAS

INTRODUCTION

La Llorona, Magic Realism, and the Frontier

Curanderismo and Witchery in the Fiction of Rudolfo A. Anaya

America as AztlÁn: Landscape, Myth, and Ethnicity in Rudolfo Anaya's Heart of AztlÁn and Alburquerque, and Jimmy Santiago Baca's MartÍn and Meditations on the South Valley

Jimmy Santiago Baca: Writing the Borderlands of Ethnic and Cultural Crisis

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Dictionary of Native American Literature
by Andrew Wiget. 598 pgs.

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List of Figures

Introduction

Native American Oral Literatures

Native American Oral Literatures: a Critical Orientation

Oral Literature of the Alaskan Arctic

Oral Literature of the Subarctic Athapaskans

Native Oral Literature of the Northwest Coast and the Plateau

Oral Literature of California and the Intermountain Region

Oral Literature of the Southwest

Oral Literature of the Plains Indians

Oral Literature of the Northeastern Algonquians and the Northern Iroquoians

Oral Literature of the Southeast

Oral Historical Epic Narratives

The Native American Trickster

Oratory

Dreams, Song and Narrative

Revitalization Movements and Oral Literature

Myth and Religion of Native America

The Bible and Traditional Indian Literature

The White Man in Native Oral Tradition

Bibliography

The Historical Emergence of Native American Writing

Native American Writing: Beginnings to 1967

Population, Reservations, and Federal Indian Policy

Autobiography

Women's Autobiography

Coyote's Jokebook: Humor in Native American Literature and Culture

William Apes (January 31, 1798-1839)

Black Elk (1863-1950)

Elias Boudinot [Buck Watie, or Gallegina] (Ca. 1802-June 22, 1839)

S. Alice Callahan (January 1, 1868-January 7, 1894)

George Copway [Kahgegagahbowh] (1818-1869)

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Charles Alexander Eastman [Ohiyesa] (February 19, 1858-January 8, 1939)

E. Pauline Johnson [Tekahionwake or “double Wampum”] (March 10, 1861-March 17, 1913)

John Joseph Mathews (November 16, 1894-June 11,1919)

(William) D'Arcy Mcnickle (January 18, 1904-October 18, 1977)

Mourning Dove [Humishuma, B. Christine Quintasket; M.Christal Mcleod, Christine Galler] (April 1882 [?]-August 8, 1936)

Samson Occom (1723-July 14,1192)

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John Milton Oskison (September 21, 1874-February 25, 1947)

Simon Pokagon (1830-January 1899)

Alexander Lawrence Posey [Chinnubbie Harjo] (August 5, 1873-May 27, 1908)

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John Rollin Ridge [Yellow Bird, or Chees-Quat-A-Law-Ny] (March 19,1821-October 5, 1867)

(Rolla) Lynn Riggs (August 31, 1899- June 30, 1954)

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft [Obahbahmwawagezhegoqua] (1800-May 22,1841)

Sarah Winnemucca [M. Hopkins; Thocmetony] (1844-October 17, 1891)

Zitkala Sa [Gertrude Simmons Bonnin] (February 22, 1816-January 26, 1938)

A Native American Renaissance: 1967 to the Present

Contemporary Native American Writing: an Overview

Critical Approaches to Native American Literature

European Responses to Native American Literatures

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Teaching Indian Literature

Native Literature of Canada

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New Native American Fiction

The New Native American Theater

Indians in Anglo-American Literature, 1492 to 1990

Paula Gunn Allen (October 24, 1939-)

Joseph Bruchac (October 16, 1942-)

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1930-)

Vinnie Deloria, Jr. (March 26, 1933-)

Michael (Anthony) Dorris (January 30, 1945-)

(Karen) Louise Erdrich (June 7, 1954-)

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Hanay Geiogamah (1945-)

Joy Harjo (May 9, 1951-)

Lance (David) Henson (September 20,1944-)

Linda Henderson Hogan (July 16, 1947-)

Maurice Kenny (August 16,1929-)

Thomas King (April 24, 1943-)

N(Avarre) Scott Momaday (February 27, 1934-)

Duane (Mcginniss) Niatum (February 13, 1938-)

Simon J. Ortiz (May 27, 1941-)

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Carter Revard [Nompehwathe] (March 25, 1931-)

Wendy Rose (May 7, 1948-)

Leslie Marmon Silko (March 1,1948-)

Hyemeyohsts (Chuck) Storm (May 23, 1935-)

Gerald Vizenor (October 22, 1934-)

Anna Lee Walters (1946-)

James Welch (November 18, 1940-)

Roberta Hill Whiteman (February 12,1941-)

Ray (Anthony) Young Bear (November 12, 1950-)

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