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Paula Gunn Allen (October 24, 1939 – May 29, 2008) was an American poet, literary critic, activist, [1] professor, and novelist.Of mixed-race European-American, Arab-American, and Native American descent, she identified with her mother's people, the Laguna Pueblo. [2]
The poem was based on an earlier children's story by Press entitled Krotoa, which was created as part of an educational initiative by the South African Council for Higher Education designed to inform schoolchildren about colonization from the perspective of indigenous South Africans.
"Fire Woman Warrior" is a sculpture of Keziah Powhatan. [11] "Pocahontas Unmasked" is a print of a distant maternal cousin. [12] This print is Powhatan's interpretation of an unmasked English version of Pocahontas. [5] It is based off of John White's watercolors based on the Amerindian phenotype from 1585. [13]
Pocahontas (US: / ˌ p oʊ k ə ˈ h ɒ n t ə s /, UK: / ˌ p ɒ k-/; born Amonute, [1] also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
According to Furlan, Miranda employs a variety of different media and sources in her memoir to reconstruct and decolonize the historical narrative of indigenous people in California and her own indigenous background. [11] Bad Indians is composed of “part historical archive, part family history, part personal narrative, and part poetry.” [11]
In contrast, however others have argued that Pocahontas's love scene in Act III is where the truest poetry of the piece emerges. [21] There has been less critique of Bray's musical work, but Victor Fell Yellin tried to recreate what he felt was the score's melodic expressiveness and sonorous grandeur in his 1978 recording of it. [32]
Joseph Bruchac (born October 16, 1942) is an American writer and storyteller based in New York.. He writes about Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American lives and folklore.
Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tsenacommacah, encompassing the Tidewater region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith , in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father ...