Early Native American Writing Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 27,6 Mb
• Release Date : 28 November 1996

A collection of essays discussing early American Indian authors.

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2004

"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a

• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• File Size : 22,9 Mb
• Release Date : 16 November 2005

In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that

• Publisher : Native Americans of the Northe
• File Size : 32,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

A study of cultural encounter, this book takes a fresh look at the much ignored and often misunderstood experience of Christian Indians in early America. Focusing on New England missionary

• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 09 November 2000

Algonquian and Iroquois natives of the American Northeast were described in great detail by colonial explorers who ventured into the region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Beginning with the

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 27,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 June 2015

This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contactto the present day, offers an important variation to existingstudies by placing the lives and experiences of Native Americancommunities at

• Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
• File Size : 23,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2008

Scholars and readers continue to wrestle with how best to understand and appreciate the wealth of oral and written literatures created by the Native communities of North America. Are critical

• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 September 2020

Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously