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Cooper, James Fenimore
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......1789–1851, American novelist, b...first important American writer to draw on the...landscape of his native land in order...portrayal of the Native American.Cooper's later...vital and original writer of romances of......
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Arguedas, Alcides
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......1879–1946, Bolivian writer and diplomat. His essays...romantic idealization of the Native American. His best-known works...exposing the exploitation of Native Americans by the landowners. Some of the Native American folktales he collected......
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Jackson, Helen (Fiske) Hunt
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......Fiske) Hunt Jackson, 1830–85, American writer whose pseudonym was H. H., b...the government's injustice to Native Americans. This book led to her...more emphatically the plight of Native Americans. See biography by K......
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Boas, Franz
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......was associated with the American Museum of Natural History...Boas greatly influenced American anthropology, particularly...Mexico. As a student of Native American languages, Boas emphasized...anthropology. A prolific writer, Boas's works include......
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Burlin, Natalie Curtis
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......bərlĬn´), 1875–1921, American writer and musician, b. New York City...was through her efforts that Native American music was encouraged, rather...Navajo, Zuñi, Hopi, and other Native American groups, recording words and......
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Dillard, Annie
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...Annie Dillard, 1945–, American writer, b. Pittsburgh, Pa., as Meta...The Living (1992), an epic of Native Americans, settlers, and immigrants...Poems (1995). See her memoir, An American Childhood (1987); The Annie Dillard......
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Hopkinson, Francis
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......Francis Hopkinson, 1737–91, American writer and musician, signer of the...musician and is considered the first native American composer of a secular song, My...such he may have designed the American flag) and as treasurer of the......
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Mather, Cotton
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...Cotton Mather (măŧħ´ər), 1663–1728, American Puritan clergyman and writer, b. Boston, grad. Harvard (B.A...deeply interested in science and was the first native-born American to be a fellow of the Royal Society. He persuaded......
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Steinbeck, John
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...John Steinbeck, 1902–68, American writer, b. Salinas, Calif., studied...Wrath, considered one of the great American novels of the 20th cent. Steinbeck...Pippin IV (1957). Love of his native land shines through the exquisitely......
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La Farge, Oliver
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...Oliver La Farge (lä färzh), 1901–63, American writer and anthropologist, b. New York City, grad...experience to authenticate his reflective stories of Native American habit and character. Laughing Boy (1929), a novel......