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The Reverend Samson Occom, Mohegan, 1723–1792, [1] thought to be the first Native American to publish in English. This is a list of notable writers who are Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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 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.
Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy [1] and was reprinted in their February 1935 issue. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American poets. ... Pages in category "Native American poets" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 ...
The theme of his poems and other works are Native Americans' search for identity. His poems express the painful awareness of identity loss. Young Bear's great-great grandfather, Maminwanike, purchased the land that the Meskwaki Settlement was built on. [ 1 ]
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.
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.
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