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The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82283-1. Senier, Sionhan, ed. (2014). Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-4686-7. Sigafus, Kim; Ernst, Lyle (2012-04-01). Native Writers: Voices of Power ...
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.
House Made of Dawn was the first novel of the Native American Renaissance, a term coined by literary critic Kenneth Lincoln in the Native American Renaissance. The novel is a seminal work of contemporary Native American literature. [17] [18] His follow-up work The Way to Rainy Mountain blended folklore with memoir. [19]
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
Ruoff earned her BS in education and an MA (1954) and PhD (1966) in English at Northwestern University.She taught first at Roosevelt University.Then beginning in 1969 she taught English literature in the English department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, [7] where she developed curriculum for a Native American studies program.
Indigenous cultures in North America engage in storytelling about morality, origin, and education as a form of cultural maintenance, expression, and activism. [1] Falling under the banner of oral tradition, it can take many different forms that serve to teach, remember, and engage Indigenous history and culture. [1]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:20th-century American writers. It includes American writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents