Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction - Sean Teuton 2018
Further reading
Literature
Alexie, Sherman. Indian Killer. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1996.
Alexie, Sherman. Reservation Blues. New York: Grove Press, 1995.
Allen, Paula Gunn. “Iyani: It Goes This Way.” In The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature. Edited by Geary Hobson, 191—193. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.
Allen, Paula Gunn. The Woman Who Owned the Shadows. San Francisco: Spinters, 1983.
Apess, William. Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston. Boston: By the author, 1836. In A Son of the Forest and Other Writings. Edited by Barry O’Connell, 105—138. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Apess, William. The Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequot Tribe. Boston: By the author, 1833. In A Son of the Forest and Other Writings. Edited by Barry O’Connell, 3—56. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Apess, William. “An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man.” In The Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequot Tribe. Boston: By the author, 1833. In A Son of the Forest and Other Writings. Edited by Barry O’Connell, 95—101. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Apess, William. Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe; or, The Pretended Riot Explained. Boston: Jonathan Howe, 1835. In On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, A Pequot. Edited by Barry O’Connell, 166—274. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
Apess, William. A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apes, a Native of the Forest, Comprising a Notice of the Pequot Tribe of Indians. New York: By the author, 1829. In A Son of the Forest and Other Writings. Edited by Barry O’Connell, 3—56. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Armstrong, Jeannette C. Slash. Penticton, BC: Theytus Books, 1985.
Aupaumut, Hendrick. “History of the Muh-he-con-nuk Indians, ca. 1790.” In Stockbridge, Past and Present; or Records of an Old Mission Station. Edited by Electa Jones, 15—23. Springfield, MA: Samuel Bowles and Company, 1854.
Bell, Betty Louise. Faces in the Moon. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
Birchfield, D. L. Field of Honor. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
Blackbird, Andrew Jackson. The Indian Problem, from the Indian’s Standpoint. Philadelphia: National Indian Association, 1900. In American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s—1930s. Edited by Bernd C. Peyer, 244—252. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Black Hawk. Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk. Edited by J. B. Patterson. Cincinnati: Unidentified publisher, 1833. Reprint, Black Hawk: An Autobiography. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1955.
Boudinot, Elias Cornelius. “An Address to the Whites.” Philadelphia: William F. Geddes, 1826. Reprint, Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot. Edited by Theda Perdue, 244—252. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Boudinot, Elias Cornelius. Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border, James W. Parins. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.
Brown, Catherine. Memoir of Catherine Brown: A Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation. Edited by Rufus Anderson. Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, and Crocker and Brewster, 1825.
Callahan, Alice. Wynema a Child of the Forest. Chicago: H. J. Smith and Company, 1891. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Campbell, Maria. Halfbreed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
Coolidge, Sherman. “The Function of the Society of American Indians.” The Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians 2.1 (January—March 1914): 186—190. In American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s—1930s. Edited by Bernd C. Peyer, 345—348. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Copway, George. Life, Letters, and Speeches of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh. (Originally published as The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway), a Young Indian Chief of the Ojibwa Nation, A Convert to the Christian Faith, and a Missionary to His People for Twelve Years, 1847 [New York: S. W. Benedict, 1850].) Edited by LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Donald B. Smith. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Copway, George. Running Sketches of Men and Places, in England, France, Germany, Belgium, and Scotland. New York: J. C. Riker, 1851.
Cusick, David. Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations. Lockport, NY: Turner and McCollum, Printers, Democrat Office, 1848.
Deloria, Ella. Waterlily. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Dembiki, Matt. Trickster: Native American Tales, a Graphic Collection. Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 2010.
Downing, Todd. The Cat Screams. Reprint, Downing: New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1934.
Duncan, DeWitt Clinton. “A Momentous Occasion.” Indian Chieftain (Vinita, Cherokee Nation), June 24, 1897. Reprint, Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875—1935. Edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins, 31—37. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
Eastman, Charles. From the Deep Woods to Civilization. Reprint, Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1916.
Eastman, Charles. Indian Boyhood. Reprint, Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1902.
Erdrich, Louise. “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways.” In Harper’s Anthology of Twentieth-Century Native American Poetry. Edited by Duane Niatum, 334. New York: Harper, 1988.
Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. 1984. New York: Perennial, 1993.
Erdrich, Louise. Tracks. New York: Perennial, 1988.
Eubanks, William. “For Land in Severalty, and Statehood.” Cherokee Advocate (Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation), April 18, 1894. In Native American Writing in the Southeast: An Anthology, 1875—1935. Edited by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and James W. Parins, 26—27. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
First Boy. “A Different Kind of Man.” In Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophesy to the Present, 1492—1992. Edited by Peter Nabokov, 26—29. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Gansworth, Eric. Breathing the Monster Alive. Treadwell, NY: Bright Hill Press, 2006.
Gansworth, Eric. Nickel Eclipse. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000.
Gansworth, Eric. Smoke Dancing. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004.
Geiogamah, Hanay. Body Indian. Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays. Edited by Mimi Gisolfi D’Aponte, 1—37. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1972.
Geronimo. Geronimo’s Story of His Life: A Legendary Warrior and Shaman Recounts the Beliefs and Customs of His People in One of Native American History’s Most Extraordinary Documents. Edited by S. M. Barrett. New York: Duffield and Company, 1906.
Hale, Janet Campbell. The Jailing of Cecelia Capture. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
Harjo, Joy. A Map to the Next World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.
Hausman, Blake. Riding the Trail of Tears. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Hewitt, J. N. B. “The Teaching of Ethnology in Indian Schools.” The Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians 1.1 (April 15, 1913): 30—35. In American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s—1930s. Edited by Bernd Peyer, 328—332. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Highway, Tomson. Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. Toronto: Fifth House Publishers, 1989.
Highway, Tomson. Rez Sisters. Toronto: Fifth House Publishers, 1986.
Hill, Roberta. nee Roberta Hill Whiteman. Star Quilt. Duluth, MN: Holy Cow! Press, 2001.
Hogan, Linda. Mean Spirit. New York: Ivy Books, 1990.
Hogan, Linda. Power. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
Howe, LeAnne. Shell Shaker. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2001.
Johnson, E. Pauline. Flint and Feather (Collected Verse). New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1917.
Johnson, Joseph. “Speech to the Oneidas.” 1774. Reprint, To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751—1776. Edited by Laura J. Murray. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
Jones, Peter. History of the Ojibway Indians; with Especial Reference to Their Conversion to Christianity. London: A. W. Bennett, 1860.
King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water. New York: Bantam, 1993.
King, Thomas. Truth and Bright Water. New York: Grove, 1999.
La Flesche, Francis. The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
Lambert, Leonard. Up From These Hills. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Linderman, Frank. Plenty Coup: Chief of the Crows. (Originally published as American: The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty-coup, Chief of the Crows [New York: John Day Company, 1930].) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962.
Linderman, Frank. Pretty Shield: Medicine Woman of Crows. (Originally published as Red Mother [New York: John Day Company, 1932].) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Lurie, Nancy Oestreich. Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961.
Maracle, Lee. Ravensong. Vancouver, BC: Press Gang, 1993.
Mathews, John Joseph. Sundown. New York: Longman, Green, 1934.
Maungwudaus. An Account of the Chippewa Indians: Who Have Been Travelling among the Whites. Boston: By the author, 1848.
McNickle, D’Arcy. Runner in the Sun: A Story of Indian Maize. Reprint, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1954.
McNickle, D’Arcy. The Surrounded. Reprint, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1936.
McNickle, D’Arcy. Wind from an Enemy Sky. Reprint, New York: Harper and Row, 1978.
Midge, Tiffany. Outlaws, Renegades, and Saints. Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review, 1996.
Mojica, Monique. Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots. Toronto: Three O’Clock Press, 1991.
Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.
Momaday, N. Scott. “The Man Made of Words.” In The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature. Edited by Geary Hobson, 162—173. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.
Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969.
Montezuma, Carlos. “Our Treatment of the Indians from the Standpoint of One of Them.” Saturday Evening Post 170 (May 21, 1898): 11—12.
Morris, Irvin. From the Glittering World. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.
Moses, Daniel David. Almighty Voice and His Wife. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2010.
Mourning Dove. Cogewea, the Half-Blood. Reprint, Boston: Four Seas Co., 1927.
Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Reprint, New York: William Morrow and Co., 1932.
Occom, Samson. Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, and Indian. New Haven, CT: Press of Thomas and Samuel Green, 1899. Reprint, Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England. Edited by W. DeLoss Love. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1772.
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Ortiz, Simon. From Sand Creek. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981.
Ortiz, Simon. “Song/Poetry and Language—Expression and Perception.” Symposium of the Whole. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Reprint, Speak to Me Words. Edited by Dean Rader and Janice Gould, 235—246. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.
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Oskison, John Milton. Black Jack Davy. New York: Appleton, 1926.
Oskison, John Milton. Brothers Three. New York: Macmillan, 1935.
Oskison, John Milton. The Singing Bird: A Cherokee Novel. Reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2007.
Oskison, John Milton. Wild Harvest: A Novel of Transition Days in Oklahoma. New York: Appleton, 1925.
Parker, Arthur C. The Code of Handsome Lake. New York: New York State Museum Bulletin, 1913.
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Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York: Penguin, 1977.
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Standing Bear, Luther. Land of the Spotted Eagle. Reprint, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1933.
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Strong, Nathaniel Thayer. Appeal to the Christian Community on the Condition and Prospects of the New York Indians. Buffalo: Press of Thomas and Company, 1841. In American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s—1930s. Edited by Bernd C. Peyer, 100—107. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
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Vizenor, Gerald. The Heirs of Columbus. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1991.
Vizenor, Gerald. Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
Vizenor, Gerald. Word Arrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1978.
Wagamese, Richard. Keeper ’n Me. Toronto: Doubleday, 1994.
Warren, William Whipple. History of the Ojibway People. Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1885. Reprint, St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1984.
Warrior, Clyde. “The War on Poverty.” In Rural Poverty. Edited by Clyde Warrior, 143—147. Washington, DC: federal report, 1967. Reprint, Great Documents in American Indian History. Edited by Wayne Moquin, 355—357. New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.
Welch, James. The Death of Jim Loney. New York: Penguin, 1979.
Welch, James. Fools Crow. New York: Penguin, 1986.
Welch, James. The Heartsong of Charging Elk. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
Welch, James. The Indian Lawyer. Reprint, New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1990.
Welch, James. “The Man from Washington.” In Riding the Earthboy 40. Edited by James Welch, 35. Reprint, Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1971.
Welch, James. Winter in the Blood. Reprint, New York: Harper and Row, 1974.
Winnemucca Hopkins, Sarah. Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. New York: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1883. Reprint, Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1994.
Womack, Craig. Drowning in Fire. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Yellow Robe, William S. Jr. The Independence of Eddie Rose: Seventh Generation; An Anthology of Native American Plays. Edited by Mimi Gisolfi D’Aponte, 39—97. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1999.
Young Bear, Ray. Remnants of the First Earth. New York: Grove, 1996.
Zitkala-Ša. “The Soft-Hearted Sioux.” In American Indian Stories, 48—55. Washington, DC: Hayworth Publishing House, 1921. Reprint, Mineola, NY: Dover, 2009.
Contexts
Edmunds, R. David, Frederick E. Hoxie, and Neal Salisbury. The People: A History of Native America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Pearce, Roy Harvey. The Savages of America: A Study of the Indian and the Idea of Civilization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1953. Reprinted with foreword by Arnold Krupat. Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Warrior, Robert, ed. The World of Indigenous North America. London: Routledge, 2014.
Wilkins, David E., and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
Wilkinson, Charles F. Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006.
Oral tradition
Kroeber, Karl. Artistry in Native American Myths. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Krupat, Arnold. “That the People Might Live”: Loss and Renewal in the Native American Elegy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012.
Ramsey, Jarold. Reading the Fire: The Traditional Indian Literatures of America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.
Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. “The Survival of Tradition: American Indian Oral and Written Narratives.” Massachusetts Review 27.2 (1986): 274—293.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. “Interior and Exterior Landscapes: The Pueblo Migration Stories.” In Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today. Edited by Leslie Marmon Silko, 25—47. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Early writing
Konkle, Maureen. Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827—1863. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
O’Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Perdue, Theda, and Michael Green. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New York: Penguin, 2008.
Peyer, Bernd. The Tutor’d Mind: Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.
Wyss, Hilary E. Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
Resistance and assimilation
Calloway, Colin G. One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Hoxie, Frederick E. A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880—1920. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
Jung, Patrick J. The Black Hawk War of 1832. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
Kelman, Ari. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Maddox, Lucy. Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, and Reform. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Studying Native Americans
Elliott, Michael A. The Culture Concept: Writing and Difference in the Age of Realism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Huhndorf, Shari. Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Krupat, Arnold. Red Matters: Native American Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Smith, Paul Chaat, and Robert Allen Warrior. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. New York: New Press, 1997.
Vizenor, Gerald. Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Weaver, Jace, Craig S. Womack, and Robert Warrior. American Indian Literary Nationalism. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
The novel
Bevis, William W. “Native American Novels: Homing In.” In Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature. Edited by Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, 580—620. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Fixico, Donald L. Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945—1960. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Owens, Louis. Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Teuton, Sean. Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008.
Wilson, Michael D. Writing Home: Indigenous Narratives of Resistance. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2008.
Looking ahead
Clifford, James. Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.
Deloria, Philip J. Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2004.
Lyons, Scott Richard. X-Marks: Native Signatures of Assent. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Smith, Paul Chaat. Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.