American Indian Autobiography

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803217492
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Indian Autobiography written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Many of these narratives are as-told-to autobiographies, and those who labored to set them down in writing are nearly as diverse as their subjects. Black Elk had a poet for his amanuensis; Maxidiwiac, a Hidatsa farmer who worked her fields with a bone-blade hoe, had an anthropologist. Two Leggings, the man who led the last Crow war party, speaks to us through a merchant from Bismarck, North Dakota. White Horse Eagle, an aged Osage, told his story to a Nazi historian. ø By discussing these remarkable narratives from a historical perspective, H. David Brumble III reveals how the various editors? assumptions and methods influenced the autobiographies as well as the autobiographers. Brumble also?and perhaps most importantly?describes the various oral autobiographical traditions of the Indians themselves, including those of N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko. American Indian Autobiography includes an extensive bibliography; this Bison Books edition features a new introduction by the author.

Author : Charles S. Brant
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486148289
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of a Kiowa Apache Indian written by Charles S. Brant and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnological classic details life of 19th-century Native American — childhood, tribal customs, contact with whites, government attitudes toward tribe, much more. Editor's preface, introduction and epilogue. Index. 1 map.

Author : Sam Blowsnake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crashing Thunder written by Sam Blowsnake and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mourning Dove
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282070
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mourning Dove written by Mourning Dove and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, a member of the Colville Federated Tribes of eastern Washington State. She was the author of Cogewea, The Half-Blood (one of the first novels to be published by a Native American woman) and Coyote Stories, both reprinted as Bison Books. Jay Miller, formerly assistant director and editor at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library, Chicago, now is an independent scholar and writer in Seattle. He is the compiler of Earthmaker: Tribal Stories from Native North America.

Author : Arnold Krupat
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299140243
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Native American Autobiography written by Arnold Krupat and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: Native American Autobiography is the first collection to bring together the major autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present._ The thirty narratives included here cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years. From the earliest known written memoir--a 1768 narrative by the Reverend Samson Occom, a Mohegan, reproduced as a chapter here--to recent reminiscences by such prominent writers as N. Scott Momaday and Gerald Vizenor, the book covers a broad range of Native American experience. Editor Arnold Krupat provides a general introduction, a historical introduction to each of the seven sections, extensive headnotes for each selection, and suggestions for further reading, making this an ideal resource for courses in American literature, history, anthropology, and Native American studies. General readers, too, will find a wealth of fascinating material in the life stories of these Native American men and women.

Author : Don C. Talayesva
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300002270
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun Chief written by Don C. Talayesva and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1963-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the contrast in lifestyles of the author between his life among whites, and his life with the Hopi

Author : Brian Swann
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803293144
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Tell You Now written by Brian Swann and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and updated biographical sketches for each writer.

Author : Arnold Krupat
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520341058
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book For Those Who Come After written by Arnold Krupat and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the life stories of Native Americans solicited by historians during the 19th century and, later, by anthropologists concerned with amplifying the cultural record, Arnold Krupat examines the Indian autobiography as a specific genre of American writing.

Author : John Joseph Mathews
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187468
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Thousand Mornings written by John Joseph Mathews and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews’s intimate chronicle of his formative years. Written in 1965-67 but only recently discovered, this work captures Osage life in pre-statehood Oklahoma and recounts many remarkable events in early-twentieth-century history. Born in Pawhuska, Osage Nation, Mathews was the only surviving son of a mixed-blood Osage father and a French-American mother. Within these pages he lovingly depicts his close relationships with family members and friends. Yet always drawn to solitude and the natural world, he wanders the Osage Hills in search of tranquil swimming holes—and new adventures. Overturning misguided critical attempts to confine Mathews to either Indian or white identity, Twenty Thousand Mornings shows him as a young man of his time. He goes to dances and movies, attends the brand-new University of Oklahoma, and joins the Air Service as a flight instructor during World War I—spawning a lifelong fascination with aviation. His accounts of wartime experiences include unforgettable descriptions of his first solo flight and growing skill in night-flying. Eventually Mathews gives up piloting to become a student again, this time at Oxford University, where he begins to mature as an intellectual. In her insightful introduction and explanatory notes, Susan Kalter places Mathews’s work in the context of his life and career as a novelist, historian, naturalist, and scholar. Kalter draws on his unpublished diaries, revealing aspects of his personal life that have previously been misunderstood. In addressing the significance of this posthumous work, she posits that Twenty Thousand Mornings will challenge, defy, and perhaps redefine studies of American Indian autobiography.”

Author : Hertha Dawn Wong
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195069129
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sending My Heart Back Across the Years written by Hertha Dawn Wong and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using contemporary autobiography theory, and literary and anthropological approaches, Wong traces the development of Native American autobiography from pre-literate oral, artistic, and dramatic personal narratives through late nineteenth and early twentieth-century life histories to contemporary autobiographies.