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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Native American novels" The following 58 pages are in this category, out ...
Karen Louise Erdrich (/ ˈ ɜːr d r ɪ k / ER-drik; [2] born June 7, 1954) [3] is a Native American author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota , a federally recognized Ojibwe people .
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 ...