Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
This work inspired public interest in Native cultures and within Native American communities themselves; it was also a period of activism within Native American communities to achieve greater sovereignty and civil rights. The ferment also inspired a group of young Native American writers, who emerged in the fields of poetry and novel-writing.
It was founded in 1971 [2] to promote the study, criticism, and research of American Indian literary traditions, both written and oral. [3] Its journal, Studies in American Indian Literatures, has been the primary journal for the study of North American indigenous literature for over thirty years.
People of the Fire (ISBN 978-0-8125-2150-4, 1991) dramatizes the transition of Native American culture from Paleo-Indian to Archaic as a result of climatic warming, set in the High Plains and Western Rockies region. It is the second book in North America's Forgotten Past series.
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 ...
Of course, the terms “Native American authors” or “Native American literature” can be a bit too simplistic. Native Americans are not a monolith. With more than 500 recognized Indian ...
Mourning Dove [a] (born Christine Quintasket [1]) or Humishuma [4] was a Native American (Okanogan (), Arrow Lakes (), and Colville) author best known for her 1927 novel Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range and her 1933 work Coyote Stories.
The Handbook of North American Indians is a series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Native American studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978. Planning for the handbook series began in the late 1960s and work was initiated following a special congressional appropriation in fiscal year 1971. [ 1 ]