Native American Literature: An Anthology
This treasury of literature by Native American authors allows students to listen to the voices from America's first and oldest literature. More than fifty tribes from the U.S. and Canada are represented, giving readers opportunities to explore the diversity of authors' experiences through poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the oral tradition. Two maps provide geographical context for the readings, one showing tribal locations and the other showing the Trail of Tears.
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This treasury of literature by Native American authors allows students to listen to the voices from America's first and oldest literature. More than fifty tribes from the U.S. and Canada are represented, giving readers opportunities to explore the diversity of authors' experiences through poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the oral tradition. Two maps provide geographical context for the readings, one showing tribal locations and the other showing the Trail of Tears.BooknewsComprises 100-plus poems, short stories, essays, and memoirs spanning 200 years, ranging from the oral tradition to contemporary writing, and representing a diversity of North American tribes. Organization is thematic, including such topics as images and identities, the remembered earth, growing up, and affairs of the heart. Also included are historical material, biographical information on the authors, discussion questions, and writing topics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
PrefaceHistorical OverviewReading Poems in Public4Indians Today, the Real and the Unreal7For Indians, No Thanksgiving1613/1620The Truth Is23The Two Lives26Dear John Wayne42I Am Not a Mascot45Sure You Can Ask Me a Personal Question49Plea to Those Who Matter52My Indian Name and Name Giveaway54The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee60Adventures of an Indian Princess63What I Am68Carriers of the Dream Wheel79The Creation: Iroquois Myths81Origin of the False Face Company: Seneca Myths86The Origin of the Long House: Seneca Legend93The Council of the Great Peace98The Creation or Age of Beginning: Dine (Navajo) Origin Myths103White Bead Woman Marries the Sun and The Story of the Twin Brothers and the Giant Yeitso109The Coming of Horses117The War God's Horse Song120A Prayer of the Night Chant122The Sun Dance125Alone on a Hilltop134All My Relations140Old Man, the Sweat Lodge144The Origin of Eternal Death: Blackfoot Myth146The Fawn, the Wolves, and the Terrapin: Creek Myth150The Vampire Skeleton: Onondaga Myth153Raven Steals the Light: Haida Myth156Naanabozho and the Gambler161Soul Catcher166Rite of Encounter175The Man from Washington189An Address to the Whites192from Pushing the Bear201In 1864214The Navajo Long Walk219Voices of the Invisible226Black Kettle National Grasslands, Western Oklahoma232Buried Alive236from Yellow Wolf: His Own Story242Return to Bearpaw252December 29, 1890264The Ghost Dance War266Three Thousand Dollar Death Song277from "Waiting at the Edge"285I Still Trust the Land291Giant Bear297The Time We Climbed Snake Mountain300Slim Man Canyon302Indian Song: Survival304Hawk Nailed to a Barn Door308Buffalo Poem #1311Time312We Are the Land315The Strange People318Skunk Dreams321Morning Glories and Eastern Phoebes325Snow Country Weavers328Five Rounds330from Solar Storms332Song of the Sky Loom341My Father's Song347Remember350The Power of Love353A Second Adoption357Halfbreed361"Introduction" from The Way to Rainy Mountain367Neon Scars374A Special Treat384They Were Alone in Winter387Lullaby389Wake Up! Do Not Be Idle!398In the Hour of the Wolf402Ellis Island408A Son of the Forest414At Last I Kill a Buffalo423from The Arapaho Way430Beets442from Interior Landscapes450The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven463Rayona's Ride467Growing Up478Notes of a Translator's Son482The End of Childhood488A Classic Drop Off495Tiny Treaties498Raisin Eyes501The Bingo Van504Love Song516Songs of Divorce518High Horse's Courting520Going to School527Groom Service537from Stoney Creek Woman550The Marriage of Red Paint and White Man's Dog559Earth and I Gave You Turquoise580Love Poem583Lakota Language592First Days at Carlisle598The School Days of an Indian Girl611Indian Boarding School: The Runaways624Indian Education626Tlingit Concrete Poem630Enchanted Enchanted Rattlesnake633The Man Made of Words635Indian Humor654I Give You Back663An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man666The Game Between the Jews and the Indians Is Tied Going into the Bottom of the Ninth Inning672The Man to Send Rainclouds674Metamorphosis679The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window684The Big Snow and Food Rampage of 1892-1893688Street Kid696Battle Won Is Lost698We Saw Days700Captured by the Enemy702Skeleton of Winter717The Warriors720Water Witch732The View from the Mesa738Seeing, Knowing, Remembering747Of All Tomorrows751Proviso755Celebration757I Remember759The Voyagers762Acknowledgments769Author-Title Index775
\ BooknewsComprises 100-plus poems, short stories, essays, and memoirs spanning 200 years, ranging from the oral tradition to contemporary writing, and representing a diversity of North American tribes. Organization is thematic, including such topics as images and identities, the remembered earth, growing up, and affairs of the heart. Also included are historical material, biographical information on the authors, discussion questions, and writing topics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
