Early Native American Writing is a collection of critical essays discussing the works of American Indian authors who wrote between 1630 and 1940 and produced some of the earliest literature in North American history. The first collection of critical essays that concentrates on this body of writing, this book highlights the writings of the American Indian authors considered, many only recently rediscovered, as important contributions to American letters.
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This collection of critical essays discusses the works of American Indian authors who wrote between 1630 and 1940, producing some of the earliest literature in North American history. It highlights the writings of many American Indian authors only recently rediscovered.
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Some of the earliest literary texts written in European languages by Native American authors were written in the seventeenth century by students at Harvard's Indian College. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agrarian paradise, mixed descent, storytelling art, manuscript version, colonial mission, western romance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Native American, Mourning Dove, New York, American Indian, The Surrounded, New England, Dartmouth College, Yellow Bird, University of Nebraska Press, Samson Occom, David Fowler, Father Grepilloux, Green-blanket Feet, Hezekiah Calvin, Short Narrative, Honoratissimi Benefactores, Oxford University Press, The Brand, Pierce Papers, University of California Press, United States, Buffalo Creek, Ogden Land Company, Dawes Era, Eleazar Wheelock New!
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Some of the earliest literary texts written in European languages by Native American authors were written in the seventeenth century by students at Harvard's Indian College. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
agrarian paradise, mixed descent, storytelling art, manuscript version, colonial mission, western romance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Native American, Mourning Dove, New York, American Indian, The Surrounded, New England, Dartmouth College, Yellow Bird, University of Nebraska Press, Samson Occom, David Fowler, Father Grepilloux, Green-blanket Feet, Hezekiah Calvin, Short Narrative, Honoratissimi Benefactores, Oxford University Press, The Brand, Pierce Papers, University of California Press, United States, Buffalo Creek, Ogden Land Company, Dawes Era, Eleazar Wheelock New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Lakota Myth (Second Edition) by James R. Walker on 5 pages
- The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America by James Axtell on 5 pages
- Conspiracy of Pontiac by F. Parkman on 5 pages
- Eulogy on King Philip, as Pronounced at The Odeon in Federal Street, Boston, by the Rev. William Apes, an Indian, January 8,1836 by William Apess on 4 pages
- Joaquin Murieta by John Rollin Aka Yellow Bird Ridge on 4 pages
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- Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law by David J. Carlson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Native American Speakers of the Eastern Woodlands: Selected Speeches and Critical Analyses (Contributions to the Study of Mass Media and Communications) by Barbara Alice Mann on page 139, and Back Matter
- The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature by Joshua David Bellin in Back Matter
- Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations, and Oral Traditions by Alexander Posey in Back Matter
- Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine: A Casebook (Casebooks in Contemporary Fiction) by Hertha D. Sweet Wong on page 34
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