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This anthology includes some of the best works of Native American Literature with a good representation of major authors, geographic dispersion, gender balance, and a variety of genres. Its illustrative and popular material promote a deeper appreciation of different themes and approaches. Complete works that have become classics in the field, combined with ones from the modern era, make this collection rich in historical and theoretical context.Selections of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and drama, include works by Paula Gunn Allen, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Carter Revard, Leslie Marmon Silko, Sherman Alexie, Kimberly Blaeser, Peter Blue Cloud, Louise Erdrich, Scott N. Momaday, Simon Ortiz, and many more.An effective introduction to Native American Literature for readers interested in this area of writing.

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Selections by Author

x

Preface

xiv

Nonfiction

5

(185)

Introduction

1

(14)

Postmodernism, Native American Literature and the Real: The Silko-Erdrich Controversy

15

(8)

Susan Perez Castillo

The American Indian Fiction Writers: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, the Third World, and First Nation Sovereignty

23

(16)

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Indian Humor

39

(15)

Vine Deloria

The Ghost Dance War

54

(8)

Charles Eastman Ohiyesa

The Sacred Hoop: A Contemporary Perspective

62

(20)

Paula Gunn Allen

The Man Made of Words

82

(12)

N. Scott Momaday

Decolonializing Criticism: Reading Dialectics and Dialogics in Native American Literatures

94

(26)

David L. Moore

Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism

120

(6)

Simon J. Ortiz

History, Myth, and Identity Among Osages and Other Peoples

126

(15)

Carter Revard

The Woman Who Loved a Snake: Orality in Mabel McKay's Stories

141

(18)

Greg Sarris

Language and Literature from a Pueblo Perspective

159

(13)

Leslie Marmon Silko

An Old-Time Indian Attack Conducted in Two Parts: Part One---Imitation ``Indian'' Poems/Part Two---Gary Snyder's Turtle Island

166

(6)

Introduction: Only the Beginning

172

(18)

Brian Swann

Fiction

190

(222)

The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor

194

(18)

Sherman Alexie

This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona

203

(9)

Swimming Upstream

212

(6)

Beth Brant

A Good Chance

218

(14)

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

The Power of Horses

226

(6)

The Red Convertible

232

(8)

Louise Erdrich

Unfinished Business

240

(10)

Eric Gansworth

Aunt Parnetta's Electric Blisters

250

(5)

Diane Glancy

Deer Woman

255

(8)

Paula Gunn Allen

Sleeping in Rain

263

(3)

Gordon Henry

Aunt Moon's Young Man

266

(16)

Linda Hogan

As It Was in the Beginning

282

(7)

Pauline E. Johnson

Borders

289

(16)

Thomas King

A Seat in the Garden

298

(7)

The Hawk Is Hungry

305

(8)

D'Arcy McNickle

Veterans' Dance

313

(8)

Jim Northrup

The Killing of a State Cop

321

(5)

Simon J. Ortiz

Blessed Sunshine

326

(7)

Louis Owens

Report to the Nation: Repossessing Europe

333

(12)

Carter Revard

How I Got to Be Queen

345

(13)

Greg Sarris

The Man to Send Rain Clouds

358

(17)

Leslie Marmon Silko

Tony's Story

362

(5)

Yellow Woman

367

(8)

The Disposal of Mary Joe's Children

375

(16)

Mary TallMountain

All the Colors of Sunset

391

(5)

Luci Tapahonso

The Warriors

396

(10)

Anna Lee Walters

The Soft-Hearted Sioux

406

(6)

Zitkala-Sa

Poetry

412

(179)

13/16

416

(14)

Sherman Alexie

The Business of Fancydancing

417

(1)

Capital Punishment

418

(4)

Defending Walt Whitman

422

(2)

The Exaggeration of Despair

424

(1)

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

425

(2)

Crazy Horse Speaks

427

(3)

Dear World

430

(5)

Paula Gunn Allen

Kopis'taya, A Gathering of Spirits

431

(2)

Soundings

433

(2)

Living History

435

(7)

Kimberly Blaeser

Rewriting Your Life

436

(2)

Rituals, Yours---and Mine

438

(1)

Where I was That Day

439

(3)

Bear: A Totem Dance as Seen by Raven

442

(15)

Peter Blue Cloud

The Old Man's Lazy

444

(2)

Rattle

446

(3)

To-ta Ti-om

449

(2)

Turtle

451

(2)

Yellowjacket

453

(1)

Drum

454

(2)

Reflections on Milkweed

456

(1)

Above the Line

457

(5)

Joseph Bruchac

Blessing the Waters

459

(1)

Copal, Red Blood: Chiapas, 1998

460

(2)

Today Was a Bad Day like TB

462

(1)

Chrystos

Salmon Egg Puller---$2.15 an Hour

463

(1)

Nora Dauenhaur

Captivity

464

(10)

Louise Erdrich

Indian Boarding School: The Runaways

465

(1)

Jacklight

466

(1)

Old Man Potchikoo

467

(4)

Dear John Wayne

471

(1)

Turtle Mountain Reservation

472

(2)

She Had Some Horses

474

(13)

Joy Harjo

Transformations

476

(1)

I Give You Back

477

(1)

Call It Fear

478

(1)

Eagle Poem

479

(1)

The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window

480

(1)

Grace

481

(1)

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky

482

(5)

Blessing

487

(13)

Linda Hogan

Song for My Name

488

(1)

Bamboo

489

(1)

Celebration: Birth of a Colt

490

(1)

Drought

490

(1)

The New Apartment, Minneapolis

491

(1)

The Truth Is

492

(1)

Elk Song

493

(2)

Geraniums

495

(1)

Heritage

495

(2)

It Must Be

497

(1)

Map

498

(1)

Morning: The World in the Lake

499

(1)

Akwesasne

500

(10)

Maurice Kenny

Legacy

502

(1)

Sweetgrass

503

(1)

They Tell Me I Am Lost

504

(2)

Wild Strawberry

506

(2)

Wolf ``Aunt''

508

(2)

Who Am I

510

(1)

Joyce carlEtta Mandrake

Angle of Geese

510

(5)

N. Scott Momaday

The Bear

511

(1)

At Risk

511

(1)

December 29, 1980: Wounded Knee Creek

512

(1)

The Colors of Night

513

(2)

The Eagle-Feather Fan

515

(1)

Bend in the River

515

(5)

Simon J. Ortiz

The Creation, According to Coyote

516

(1)

Dry Root in a Wash

517

(1)

My Father's Song

518

(1)

A Story of How a Wall Stands

518

(1)

The Boy and Coyote

519

(1)

And Don't Be Deaf to the Singing Beyond

520

(11)

Carter Revard

Driving in Oklahoma

521

(1)

In Kansas

522

(1)

An Eagle Nation

523

(4)

What the Eagle Fan Says

527

(1)

Wazhazhe Grandmother

528

(3)

I Expected My Skin and My Blood to Ripen

531

(4)

Wendy Rose

If I Am Too Brown or Too White for You

532

(1)

Three Thousand Dollar Death Song

533

(2)

Indian Song: Survival

535

(18)

Leslie Marmon Silko

Untitled

536

(3)

Untitled, From Ceremony

539

(5)

Storytelling

544

(2)

Story from Bear County

546

(2)

Toe'osh: A Laguna Coyote Story

548

(3)

When Sun Came to Riverwoman

551

(2)

Good Grease

553

(3)

Mary TallMountain

The Last Wolf

554

(1)

There Is No Word for Goodbye

554

(1)

Matmiya

555

(1)

Blue Horses Rush In

556

(4)

Luci Tapahonso

In Praise of Texas

557

(1)

Light a Candle

558

(1)

Raisin Eyes

559

(1)

Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat

560

(3)

James Welch

Surviving

561

(1)

Thanksgiving at Snake Butte

562

(1)

Snow Country Weavers

562

(1)

Riding the Earthboy 40

563

(1)

Dream of Rebirth

563

(15)

Roberta Hill Whiteman

For Heather, Entering Kindergarten

564

(1)

In the Longhouse, Oneida Museum

565

(1)

Black Eagle Child Quarterly

566

(12)

The First Dimension of Skunk

578

(13)

Ray Young Bear

Winter of the Salamander

581

(1)

The Language of Weather

582

(2)

Morning Talking Mother

584

(1)

The Significance of a Water Animal

585

(1)

Nothing Could Take Away the Bear-King's Image

586

(5)

Drama

591

(29)

Harold of Orange: A Screenplay

591

(29)

Gerald Vizenor

Timeline

620

(13)

Credits

633

(4)

Index

637

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PREFACE As the old saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention, and necessity certainly drove the creation of this anthology. As any educator will tell you, one of the difficult duties we face year after year, semester after semester, is the selection of texts for classes. Even in the case of literature courses that cover the writings of "dead white guys" who no longer produce literary works, there is still a continuous stream of secondary books about them and myriad analyses of their writings. In the area of writings by American Indians, this task is even more difficult because of the growing body of secondary sources, of course, but also because of the tremendous increase in the numbers of pieces of literature produced by writers of Native American descent. It is a perplexing quandary when one tries to choose from such a wonderfully rich selection. Such difficulties also arise when one tries to compile an anthology, and there are some very good examples in print today. Some try to provide the widest coverage: an expansive array of writings from as many nations and tribal groups as possible. Some try to provide an all-inclusive sense of history: coverage from the late eighteenth century to the present. Others center on specific thematic concerns--identity issues, political policies--and thus narrow their scope. Some simply opt for the editors'' favorites. This present endeavor, however, cuts across the various attempts of the past, and it has one simple, perhaps obvious, guiding principle. It was our intention to compile the pieces of literature that our colleagues who teach Native American literature use time and time again. To accomplish this task, we surveyed our colleagues around the globe and asked them to give us a list of their "core" texts. The questionnaires--sent by post and also posted on the Internet--covered all genres and eras. Our only stipulation was that we were looking for complete works of literary art and not "excerpts," that is, sections of longer works, like novels, which rarely stand as discrete units of art. (There are short stories included here that became novel chapters later.) The response was wonderful, and although there were some obviously central authors listed on significant numbers of questionnaires, there was also a great diversity in the recommendations they made. This may seem to be a very self-serving effort: to create the anthology we always wanted to have. To a degree, this is true, but primarily this book is an attempt to construct an effective introductory collection to written Native literature. In our questionnaire, we asked for lists of pieces used most often because "they work." We did not get into a lengthy attempt to define this vague qualifier, believing that every educator knows when something has a profound, productive effect on a class, an audience. We simply wanted to bring together literary pieces that have this effect, because we also realize that the students who read these pieces of literature in the myriad courses our colleagues teach at a wide array of public and private institutions around the globe constitute the reading public itself; they come from every element of society, cutting across every group distinction employed in the world today: class, gender, race, and political ideology, to name just a few. Nonetheless, the literature speaks personally and compellingly to them, and that is a remarkable achievement. We truly hope it speaks to you, the current reader, as well. Acknowledgments We want to thank all the people who have made this anthology possible, including all our colleagues around the world who took the time to answer our survey and thus provided the list of works they find most useful in their courses. We would also like to thank Steven Beech, who tracked these works down, and our editor, Carrie Brandon, for helping us realize our goal. Finally, however, our greatest appreciation goes to the Native American writers and storytellers who have made such remarkable contributions to the literary arts and enriched our society with their myriad voices and their illuminating insights. We would also like to thank the reviewers of our manuscript for their input on this anthology: Jacquelyn Kilpatrick, Ph.D., Governors State University; Gloria Lynn Larrieu, Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute; Louis Roma-Deeley, Paradise Valley Community College; Patrick Clark Smith, University of New Mexico; and Norma Clark Wilson, University of South Dakota. -- John Purdy, James Ruppert

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Nothing But the Truth An Anthology of Native American Literature

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