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Ouâbi; or, The Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos is a narrative poem by Sarah Wentworth Morton that tells the tale of a love triangle between two American Indians and one white man. The narrative is one of the first works to use Native American or "Indian" themes in American verse.
Tanaya's interest in poetry began in her senior year of high school with the passing of her grandfather. Tanaya attended Stanford University and although she set out to become a lawyer, Tanaya switched to English in her sophomore year, graduating in 2008 with a BA in English with an emphasis on Creative Writing. [10]
Simon J. Ortiz (born May 27, 1941) is a Native American writer, poet, and enrolled member of the Pueblo of Acoma.Ortiz is one of the key figures in the second wave of what has been called the Native American Renaissance.
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman.
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 .
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures; NativeWiki literature pages; Associated Press/CNN.com: Reading into Native American Writers; Storytellers: Native American Authors Online. Yax Te' Books catalog, publishing house for Mayan literature in Mayan, Spanish and English.
The VA report also notes that more than 90% of the 42,000 Native Americans who served during the Vietnam War had volunteered even when the draft was in effect and serve disproportionately in some ...
In this collection, Alexie "challenges stereotypes that whites have of Native Americans and at the same time shows the Native American characters coming to terms with their own identities." [15] War Dances is a collection of short stories, poems, and short works. It won the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The collection, however, received ...