In 1847, a twenty-four-year-old half-Chinook Indian, half-Scot named Ranald MacDonald signed onto the crew of the Plymouth, a whaling ship out of New York. He was about to act on a plan that had been forming in his mind since he left his apprenticeship...
just once
just long enough
to snap up the words,
fish-hooked
from our tongues.
You think of us now
when you kneel
on the earth,
turn holy
in temporary tourism
of our souls ...
You think of us only
when your voice
...
LaVonne Brown Ruoff's discovery several years ago of S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891), and its subsequent republication by University of Nebraska Press (1997), pushes back by thirty-six years the first known novel written by...
The narration of inevitable European conquest plays a fundamental role in Europe's colonial storytelling traditions. In these traditions in North America, European and European American authors affirm and enact a conquest by simulating a Native American...
As a genre especially concerned with themes of identity and duplication, separation and connection, the early nineteenth-century historical romance revised by Lydia Maria Child and Catharine Maria Sedgwick particularly emphasized the connective, synthetic...