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<p>Native American Perspectives on Literature and History is a volume of essays by Indian and white scholars on issues such as ethnic identity, Indians in American mythology, how Indians write about Indians, and Indian crime and punishment.</p> <ul> <li><b>James Ruppert</b> explores the bicultural nature of Indian writers and discusses strategies they employ in addressing several audiences at once: their tribe, other Indians, and other Americans.</li> <li><b>Helen Jaskoski</b> analyzes the genre of autoethnography, or Indian historical writing, in an Ottawa writer's account of a smallpox epidemic.</li> <li><b>Kimberly Blaeser,</b> a Chippewa, writes about how Indian writers reappropriate their history and stories of their land and people.</li> <li><b>Robert Allen Warrior,</b> an Osage, examines the ideas of the leading Indian philosopher in America, Vine Deloria, Jr., who calls for a return to traditional tribal religions.</li> <li><b>Robert Berner</b> exposes the incomplete myths and false legends pervading Indian views of American history.</li> <li><b>Alan Velie</b> discusses the issue of historical objectivity in two Indian historical novels, James Welch's <i>Fools Crow</i> and

Author

Alan R. Velie

Publisher

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806127859

Subjects

Sociology, History, Literary Fiction