American Indian Literature: An Anthology

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Alan R. Velie
University of Oklahoma Press, 1991 - Literary Collections - 373 pages

Along with the traditional, primarily oral, literature of tales, songs, memoirs, and oratory, this revised anthology offers a large selection of poetry and fiction by American Indian women, including an excerpt from Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and poetry by Paula Gunn Allen, Rayna Green, Joy Harjo, nila northSun, and others. There is also a rich array of works by contemporary Indian men from different regions, such as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Maurice Kenny.

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... Buffalo We Made Fire Kiowa " 49 " Songs Walam Olum 87 87 87 88 6886 89 92 Oratory Red Jacket Speech to Missionary Cram 136 Speech to Mr. Richardson 141 Defense of the Seneca Way of Life 141 Speech to Governor Ogden 143 Pontiac's ...
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... Buffalo Drive 229 Paula Gunn Allen 231 Powwow 79 , Durango 231 Crow Ambush 232 Los Angeles , 1980 233 Hoop Dancer 235 James Welch 236 Magic Fox 237 Getting Things Straight 237 Harlem , Montana : Just Off the Reservation 238 D - Y Bar ...
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... Buffalo Poem # 1 250 Central Highlands , Vietnam , 1968 250 Rayna Green 252 Another Dying Chieftain 252 Road Hazard 253 Old Indian Trick 253 Coosaponakeesa ( Mary Mathews Musgrove Bosomsworth ) , Leader of the Creeks , 1700-1783 ) 254 ...
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Contents

Introduction
3
The Origin Myth of Acoma
14
Three Menomini Tales
27
High Horses Courting
33
The Winnebago Trickster Cycle
44
Chippewa Songs
77
Teton Sioux Songs
82
Oratory
135
Geary Hobson
246
Rayna Green
252
Lance Henson
263
Charlotte DeClue
270
Linda Hogan
276
Joy Harjo
287
Richard Aitson
297
Louise Erdrich
304

Pontiacs Allegory
145
Memoirs
153
John Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
170
N Scott Momaday
204
Maurice Kenny
213
Carter Revard
221
Paula Gunn Allen
231
Simon Ortiz
243
Fiction
313
James Welch
320
Gerald Vizenor
339
Louise Erdrich
348
LeAnne Howe
361
Index
371
Copyright

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About the author (1991)

Alan R. Velie is David Ross Boyd Professor in the English Department at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of more than forty articles and three books and the editor of eight books, including the anthology American Indian Literature.

Bibliographic information

TitleAmerican Indian Literature: An Anthology
EditorAlan R. Velie
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 1991
ISBN0806123451, 9780806123455
Length373 pages
Subjects › 

Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors)
Literary Collections / Native American
Literary Criticism / Native American
Poetry / Native American
  
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