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Marcus Bruce Christian (March 8, 1900 – November 21, 1976), was a New Negro regional poet, writer, historian and folklorist. The author of the collection, I Am New Orleans and Other Poems (posthumously edited by Rudolph Lewis and Amin Sharif and published by Xavier Review Press), Christian also compiled and wrote the still-unpublished manuscript, The History of The Negro in Louisiana during ...
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 early Native American writers were political and/or autobiographical, which was often also political in that it was meant to persuade readers to push for better treatment of Native Americans. Samson Occom (Mohegan) was a Christian preacher who wrote not only his autobiography, A Short Narrative of My Life , but also many hymns.
Standing Bear was at the forefront of the Progressive movement and his commentaries educated the American public, deepened awareness and created popular support to change government policies toward Native American peoples. At the time, Native American authors were a rarity, and Standing Bear's books were considered culturally significant and ...
Paula Marie Francis was born on October 24, 1939 in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation. [5] [6] Of mixed Scottish American, Lebanese-American, and Laguna descent, Allen always identified most closely with the Laguna, among whom she spent part of her childhood. [7]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American writers. 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.
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
During this period, Copway acted as an advocate for a Native American territory, suggesting a 150-square mile territory be established in what was the American Midwest east of the Missouri River. [1] The tribes in the area were under increasing pressure of encroachment by European-American settlers.