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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.
The book was challenged on the 10th grade reading list at Skyview High School, where a parent complained, "This book is, shockingly, written by a Native American who reinforces all the negative stereotypes of his people and does it from the crude, obscene, and unfiltered viewpoint of a 9th-grader growing up on the reservation."
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 ...
In recent decades, Apess's works have been frequently anthologized in collections of American literature, alongside other early American Native writers like Samson Occom and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. [1] Apess has been described as "perhaps the most successful activist on behalf of Native American rights in the antebellum United States." [2]
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 .
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.
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 ...
The Schoolcrafts' letters to each other during periods of separation often included poetry, also expressing how literature was part of their daily lives. Henry Schoolcraft won fame for his later publications about Native Americans, especially the Ojibwe people and their language (also known as Chippewa and Anishinaabemowin). His work was based ...