Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction - Sean Teuton 2018

References

Preface

First Boy, “A Different Kind of Man,” in Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophesy to the Present, 1492—1992, ed. Peter Nabokov (New York: Penguin, 1991), 27.

Chapter 1: The man made of words

N. Scott Momaday, “The Man Made of Words,” in The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature, ed. Geary Hobson (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979), 167, 168.

N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn (1968; repr., New York: Perennial, 1989), 212.

William Apess, “Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston” (1836), in A Son of the Forest and Other Writings, ed. Barry O’Connell (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), 114.

Chapter 2: Oral literatures

Washington Matthews, “The Night Chant,” MAMNH 6 (1902): 142.

Larry Evers and Felipe S. Molina, Yaqui Deer Songs (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987), 104.

John R. Swanton, Tlingit Myths and Texts (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, 1909), 395.

Chapter 3: To write in English

Samson Occom, “A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian” (1899), in Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England, ed. W. DeLoss Love (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 171.

Joseph Johnson, “Speech to the Oneidas” (1774), in To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751—1776, ed. Laura J. Murray (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998), 207.

William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man” (1833), in A Son of the Forest and Other Writings, ed. Barry O’Connell (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), 97.

William Apess, “A Son of the Forest” (1831), in A Son of the Forest and Other Writings, ed. Barry O’Connell (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), 4.

David Cusick, Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, 3rd. ed. (Lockport, NY: Tuner and McCollum, Printers, Democrat Office, 1848), preface, 16.

Maris Bryant Pierce, Address on the Present Condition and Prospects of the Aboriginal Inhabitants of North America, with Particular Reference to the Seneca Nation (Philadelphia: J. Richards, 1839), reprinted in American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s—1930s, ed. Bernd C. Peyer (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), 88.

Nathaniel Thayer Strong, “Appeal to the Christian Community on the Condition and Prospects of the New York Indians” (1841), in American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s—1930s, ed. Bernd C. Peyer (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), 101.

Althea Bass, Cherokee Messenger (1936; repr., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996), 31.

Stan Hoig, Sequoyah: The Cherokee Genius (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1995), 32, 53—54.

Elias Boudinot, “To the Public, February 21, 1828,” Cherokee Phoenix, in Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot, ed. Theda Perdue (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 95.

Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1986), 203.

John Ridge, Cherokee Phoenix, February 18, 1832, p. 1, cols. 3—5.

Andrew Jackson, quoted by John Ridge to Elias Boudinot, Cherokee Phoenix, May 17, 1831, May 21, 1831, p. 2, col. 5; p. 3, cols. 1—2.

Lewis Cass, “Review of Documents and Proceedings Relating to the Formation and Progress of a Board in the City of New York, for the Emigration Preservation, and Improvement of the Aborigines of America,” North American Review 30, no. 66 (January 1830): 67.

Timothy Sweet, “Cherokee ’Improvements’ and the Removal Debate,” in American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 122—152.

Elias Boudinot, “An Address to the Whites,” (Philadelphia: William F. Geddes, 1826), reprinted in Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot, ed. Theda Perdue (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 71, 74—75.

Sally M. Reece, “Letter to Reverend Daniel Campbell, July 25, 1828,” quoted in The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents, eds. Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green (Boston: Bedford, 1995), 46—47.

William G. McLoughlin, Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789—1839 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 96.

Elias Boudinot, “Indian Clans, February 18, 1829,” Cherokee Phoenix, in Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot, ed. Theda Perdue (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 107.

Lewis Cass, “Review of Documents and Proceedings Relating to the Formation and Progress of a Board in the City of New York, for the Emigration Preservation, and Improvement of the Aborigines of America,” North American Review 30, no. 66 (January 1830): 74.

Elias Boudinot, “An Address to the Whites,” (Philadelphia: William F. Geddes, 1826), reprinted in Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot, ed. Theda Perdue (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996), 68—69.

John Ridge, “Indian Address,” Religious Remembrancer 10, no. 18 (December 15, 1822): 70, reprinted in American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s—1930s, ed. Bernd C. Peyer (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007), 119.

Chapter 4: From artifact to intellectual

Antoine LeClaire, “Certification” (1955), in Black Hawk: An Autobiography, ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 35.

John B. Patterson, “Advertisement” (1955), in Black Hawk: An Autobiography, ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 38.

Black Hawk, (1955) in Black Hawk: An Autobiography, ed. Donald Jackson (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 89, 101.

Peter Jones, History of the Ojibway Indians; with especial reference to their conversion to Christianity (London: A. W. Bennett, 1860), 29.

Maureen Konkle, Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827—1863 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 184.

George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh), Life, Letters, and Speeches, eds. A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Donald B. Smith (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), 165.

William Whipple Warren, History of the Ojibway People (1885; repr., St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1984), 24, 26.

Simon Pokagon, The Red Man’s Rebuke by Chief Pokagon (Pottawattamie Chief), reprinted as The Red Man’s Greeting, Hartford, MI: C. H. Engle, 1893, reprinted in Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms, by Cheryl Walker (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997), 211.

John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux (1932; repr., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979), 1—2.

Frank Linderman, Pretty Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows (1932; repr., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003), 66, 67.

Luther Standing Bear, My People the Sioux (1928; repr., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975), 137.

Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933; repr., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978), 254, 190.

Paul Radin, Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of an American Indian (1926; repr., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), 26, xxii.

Alexander Posey, “Choonstootee’s Letter,” Arrow, October 5, 1895, reprinted in The Fus Fixico Letters, eds. Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and Carol A. Petty Hunter (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993), 28—29.

Will Rogers, quoted in The Best of Will Rogers, ed. Bryan B. Sterling (New York: Crown, 1979), 180.

Fayette McKenzie, “Circular Letter from F. A. McKenzie,” September 15, 1909, SAI Papers.

Arthur C. Parker, “Progress for the Indian,” Southern Workman 41 (November 1912): 628—35.

John Milton Oskison, “Making an Individual of the Indian,” Everybody’s Magazine 16 (June 1907): 723.

Carlos Montezuma, “Our Treatment of the Indians from the Standpoint of One of Them,” Saturday Evening Post 170 (May 21, 1898): 11.

Chapter 5: Native American literary studies

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, “Who Stole Native American Studies?” Wicazo Sa Review 12, no. 1 (1997): 9.

Charles A. Eastman, Indian Boyhood (1902; repr., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991), 51.

Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933; repr., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978), 27.

N. Scott Momaday, “The Man Made of Words,” in The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature, ed. Geary Hobson (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979), 168, 172, 164—65.

Paula Gunn Allen, “Iyani: It Goes This Way,” in The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature, ed. Geary Hobson (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979), 191.

Paula Gunn Allen, “This Wilderness in My Blood: Spiritual Foundations of the Poetry of Five American Indian Women,” in The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (1986; repr., Boston: Beacon, 1992), 165.

Louis Owens, Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 22, 26.

Robert Allen Warrior, Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1995), xvi, 2.

Craig S. Womack, Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 4—7.

Shari Huhndorf, Mapping the Americas (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009), 2—4.

Vizenor, Gerald, Word Arrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1978), 3—4.

James Welch, Winter in the Blood (1974; repr., New York: Penguin, 1986), 174.

Leslie Marmon Silko, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 32.

Simon J. Ortiz, “Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism,” MELUS 8, no. 2 (1981): 9, 10.

Simon J. Ortiz, “Song/Poetry and Language: Expression and Perception” (1983), in Speak to Me Words, eds. Dean Rader and Janice Gould (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003), 246.

Chapter 6: The Native novel

John Rollin Ridge, Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854; repr., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955), 87.

S. Alice Callahan, Wynema, a Child of the Forest (1891; repr., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), 45.

John Milton Oskison, The Singing Bird: A Cherokee Novel (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007 [c. 1930s]), 149.

D’Arcy McNickle, The Surrounded (1936; repr., Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994), 62.

Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues (New York: Grove Press, 1995), 7.

Irvin Morris, From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 33, 124, 189.

Greg Sarris, Grand Avenue: A Novel in Stories (New York: Penguin, 1994), 211.

Janet Campbell Hale, The Jailing of Cecelia Capture (1985; repr., Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000), 7.

Craig S. Womack, Drowning in Fire (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001), 104.

Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991), 19.

Gerald Vizenor, Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles (1978; repr., Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990), 145.

Chapter 7: Indigenous futurity

Clyde Warrior, “The War on Poverty” (1973), in Great Documents in American Indian History, ed. Wayne Moquin (New York: Da Capo Press, 1995), 357.

Simon J. Ortiz, “A Story of How a Wall Stands,” Going for the Rain (New York: Harper and Row, 1976), reprinted in Woven Stone (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992), 145.

Louis Little Coon Oliver, “Empty Kettle,” in Harper’s Anthology of Twentieth-Century Native American Poetry, ed. Duane Niatum (New York: Harper, 1988), 5.

James Welch, “The Man from Washington” (1971), in Riding the Earthboy 40 (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997), 35.

Simon J. Ortiz, From Sand Creek (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981), 75, 9.

Louise Erdrich, “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways,” in Harper’s Anthology of Twentieth-Century Native American Poetry, ed. Duane Niatum (New York: Harper, 1988), 334.

Joy Harjo, A Map to the Next World (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), 16, 102.

Eric Gansworth, Nickel Eclipse (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2000), 170—71.

Mark Turcotte, “No Pie,” in Exploding Chippewas (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2002), 51.

Lynn Riggs, The Cherokee Night, in The Cherokee Night and Other Plays (1932; repr., Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003), 151.

Richard Van Camp, The Lesser Blessed (Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1996), 8.

Tiffany Midge, Outlaws, Renegades, and Saints: A Diary of a Mixed-Up Halfbreed (Greenfield Center, NY: Greenfield Review, 1996), 102.

Eric Gansworth, Breathing the Monster Alive (Treadwell, NY: Bright Hill Press, 2006), 31.

Blake Hausman, Riding the Trail of Tears (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011), 270, 271.