Handbook of Native American Literature

Andrew Wiget

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780815325864
• eBook ISBN: 9781135639174
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Handbook of Native American Literature is a unique, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to the oral and written literatures of Native Americans. It lays the perfect foundation for understanding the works of Native American writers.
Divided into three major sections, Native American Oral Literatures, The Historical Emergence of Native American Writing, and A Native American Renaissance: 1967 to the Present, it includes 22 lengthy essays, written by scholars of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. The book features reports on the oral traditions of various tribes and topics such as the relation of the Bible, dreams, oratory, humor, autobiography, and federal land policies to Native American literature. Eight additional essays cover teaching Native American literature, new fiction, new theater, and other important topics, and there are bio-critical essays on more than 40 writers ranging from William Apes (who in the early 19th century denounced white society's treatment of his people) to contemporary poet Ray Young Bear.
Packed with information that was once scattered and scarce, the Handbook of NativeAmerican Literature -a valuable one-volume resource-is sure to appeal to everyone interested in Native American history, culture, and literature.
Previously published in cloth as The Dictionary of Native American Literature

Index

A

A-Tu-Mai (theater company), 377

Abenaki: culture hero, 132; tales, 75; 401-404; transformers, 74-75; village, destruction of, 75

Able, Ben, 361

Abolitionism, 208, 286

Academic Squaw: Reports to the World from the Ivory Tower (chapbook), 200, 496-497

Account of the Chippewa Indians, Who Have Been Travelling Among the Whites, An, 148

Achimoona (short stories), 361

Acoma people, 55; history, 487; storytellers, 484, 486; writers, 483-488

Adair, John Lynch, 91, 149

Adam (biblical character), 128

Adams, Howard, 359

Adams, James Truslow, 253

Adamson, Thelma, 35

Address to the Whites, An (religious tract), 146, 217, 218

Adhhoniigii: Navajo Language Monthly (periodical), 153

Adirondack stories, 401

Adventures of Captain Bonneville, The, 387—388

Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (novel), 389

Advisory Council, Committee of One Hundred. See Committee of One Hundred Advisory Council

Aesthetics: as a correlate of competence, 14; culturally specific, 11; Euroamerican, 4—5; literary, 48

African: folklore, influence on Native Americans, 84, 85, 87-88; Hare character, see Hare character; slaves, 88; stories, 402; Trickster stories, 88; writers, 438; writing, 322

African American, 222-223, 229; writers, 222-223, 313, 438

After the Death of an Elder Klallam (poetry), 480

"after the Sunday oklahoman and times article" (poem), 446

Agriculture: on allotted lands, 160-161; ceremonies, 78; dry-land, 47; as federal policy, 158-162; of the Southeast, 87; traditions and connection to emergence myth, 57

Agriculture, U.S. Department of, 532

Ahenakew, Edward, 357

Ahtna people, 28; competitive storytelling, 29

AIM. See American Indian Movement

Akwesasne Notes (newspaper), 316, 454

Alabama people, 83; emergence myth, 86; oral literature of, 85

Alaska, subarctic, 27

Alaskan Inuit people. See Inuit people

Alaskan Inupiaq people. See Inupiaq people

Alaskan Yupik people. See Yupik people

Alcatraz Island takeover, 203, 314, 434; "Alcatraz Diary," 314; Alcatraz Is Not an Island (antho...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction
• Advisory Board and Contributors
• Native American Oral Literatures
• The Historical Emergence of Native American Writing
• A Native American Renaissance: 1967 to the Present
• Index