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A History of Canadian Literature. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-2597-9. Peyer, Bernd (2007). American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s-1930s. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3798-8. Porter, Joy; Roemer, Kenneth M. (2005-07-21). The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Cambridge ...
Many of her political writings have since been criticized for favoring assimilation. She called for recognition of Native American culture and traditions, while also advocating US citizenship rights to bring Native Americans into mainstream America. She believed this was the way that they could both gain political power and protect their cultures.
Native American pieces of literature come out of a rich set of oral traditions from before European contact and/or the later adoption of European writing practices. Oral traditions include not only narrative story-telling, but also the songs, chants, and poetry used for rituals and ceremonies.
American Indian literary nationalists hold that American Indian literature is best studied through the lens of American Indian cultural and philosophical traditions. When the earliest works now categorized as nationalist were first published, this "grounded" approach ran counter both to the ethnologically inflected literary criticism of the 1970s and early 1980s, and also to the postmodern ...
[4] [5] Oral traditions educated younger generations and maintained indigenous social, spiritual, and cultural systems for ten thousand years. [2] According to Bastion and Michaels, colonialism, through the spread of disease and disenfranchisement, reduced the indigenous populations of North America, though their stories sustained.
Native American cultures across the 574 current federally recognized tribes in the United States, can vary considerably by language, beliefs, customs, practices, laws, art forms, traditional clothing, and other facets of culture. Yet along with this diversity, there are certain elements which are encountered frequently and shared by many tribal ...
It also describes the predominance of anti-Indigenous practices and values celebrated in popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries through writers like James Fenimore Cooper, especially in his novel Last of the Mohicans and its cinematic renditions; Henry David Thoreau; Walt Whitman; and in D.W. Griffith's enormously popular Birth of a Nation.
It includes American writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category refers to Indigenous writers from/in the United States. For Indigenous Canadian writers, please see: Category:First Nations writers