Native American women's writing c. 1800-1924 : an anthology / edited by Karen L. Kilcup.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Kilcup, Karen L.

Series:

• Blackwell anthologies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• American literature--Indian authors.
• American literature--Women authors.
• Indian women--Literary collections.
• Indian women.

Genre:

• Literary collections.
• Literature.

Physical Description:

xix, 434 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Summary:

• This ground-breaking anthology establishes the tradition of early Native American women's writing within American literature and American women's history.
• With a regionally diverse group of writers, this richly interwoven collection explores in depth the work of well-known figures such as Pauline Johnson, Sarah Winnemucca and Zitkala-sa, as well as less familiar writers such as Narcissa Owen, Buffalo Bird Woman, Mary Jemison. Ora Eddleman Reed, Sophia Alice Callahan, Owl Woman and Annette Leevier. Anonymously authored "women's texts" are also included, along with writing by children and young adults.
• Karen Kilcup challenges traditional mainstream notions of what constitutes literature, including political, historical, and autobiographical writing alongside more familiarly "aesthetic" forms like romantic poetry, short fiction and spiritual literature. As well as representing traditional oral narratives, the collection invites readers to hear the "translation" of orality into written forms.
• Brief headnotes outline the writers' lives and indicate connections between and among the writers. The volume also includes brief bibliographies of primary and secondary materials for each writer.
• A key text for the classroom, Native American Women's Writing: An Anthologv c. 1800-1924 offers an inviting wealth of newly discovered material for scholars and general readers alike.

Contents:

• Writing "The Red Woman's America": An Introduction to Writing by Earlier Native American Women 1
• Traditional Narratives and Songs 13
• Narratives
• [The Woman Who Fell From the Sky] (Iroquois) (Converse, 1908) 14
• Kana ti and Selu: The Origin of Game and Corn (Cherokee) (Mooney, 1900) 15
• [The Moon] (Cherokee) (Mooney, 1900) 17
• Nun yunu wi, The Stone Man (Cherokee) (Mooney, 1900) 17
• The Huhu Gets Married (Cherokee) (Mooney, 1900) 18
• [Changing Woman and White Shell Woman] (Navajo) (Matthews, 1897) 19
• The Girl-with-Spots-on-Her-Face (Musquakie) (Owen, 1904) 20
• The Bear-Maiden: An Ojibwa Folk-Tale from Lac Courte Oreille Reservation, Wisconsin (Ojibwa) (Jenks, 1902) 20
• Songs
• From Chippewa Music Love-Charm Songs and Love Songs (Densmore, 1910) 22
• From Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and Zuni Pueblos (Densmore, 1957) 23
• Nancy Ward (Nan-ye-hi; Cherokee, c. 1738-c. 1822). and Cherokee Women 26
• [Speech to the US Treaty Commissioners] (Ward, 1781) 27
• [Speech to the US Treaty Commissioners] (Ward, 1785) 28
• Cherokee Indian Women to President Franklin (1787) 28
• [Petition to the Cherokee National Council] (Cherokee Women and Ward, May 2, 1817) 29
• [Petition to the Cherokee National Council] (Cherokee Women and Ward, June 30, 1818) 29
• [Petition to the Cherokee National Council] (Cherokee Women, c. October, 1821; from the Cherokee Phoenix, 1831) 30
• Mary Jemison (Degiwene's, Two Falling Voices; Seneca, c. 1743-1833 31
• From A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824)
• Author's Preface [James E. Seaver] 32
• Author's Introduction [James E. Seaver] 34
• Chapter 1 [Parents and Early Childhood] 36
• Chapter 2 [Education; Captivity; Mother's Farewell Address] 38
• Chapter 3 [Adoption by Two Seneca Sisters; First Marriage] 42
• Chapter 4 [White and Indian Women; Family Life] 46
• Chapter 6 [Revolution; Morals of the Indians] 49
• Chapter 9 [Landowner] 51
• Chapter 10 [Spiritous Liquors among the Seneca; Fratricide] 53
• Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bame-wa-wa-ge-zhik-a-quay, Woman of the Stars Rushing Through the Sky; Ojibwe, 1800-1841) 57
• Poetry
• From The Literary Voyager or Muzzeniegun 58
• Resignation [1826] 58
• To Sisters on a Walk in the Garden, After a Shower [1826] 59
• Lines To a Friend Asleep [1827] 59
• Lines Written Under Affliction [1827] 60
• Lines Written Under Severe Pain and Sickness [1827] 60
• Otagamiad [1827] 60
• Invocation To My Maternal Grandfather On Hearing His Descent from Chippewa Ancestors Misrepresented [1827] 63
• Sonner [1827] 64
• To My Ever Beloved and Lamented Son, William Henry [1827] 64
• Traditional Narratives
• The Origin of the Robin An Oral Allegory [1827] 66
• Moowis The Indian Coquette A Chippewa Legend [1827] 67
• The Forsaken Brother A Chippewa Tale [1827] 67
• Origin of the Miscodeed Or the Maid of Taquimenon [1827] 69
• Lucy Lowrey Hoyt Keys (Wahnenauhi, Over-Therf-They-Just-Arrived-With-It
• Cherokee, 1831-1912) 71
• Historical Sketches of the Cherokees, Together with Some of Their Customs, Traditions, and Superstitions (1889) 72
• Narcissa Owen (Cherokee, 1831-1911) 90
• From Memoirs of Narcissa Owen: 1831-1907 (1907)
• @from Chapter I: Some Old Cherokee Legends and Beliefs
• [The Founding of the Cherokee Nation] 92
• A Cherokee Rheumatism Cure 93
• Cherokee Cure for Snake Bite 94
• @from Chapter II: The First Migration to the Indian Territory
• [US Government Treachery and the Trail of Tears] 94
• @from Chapter III: Concerning my Father, Thomas Chisholm, and President
• Thomas Jefferson
• [My Father] 96
• The Jefferson Medal 98
• @from Chapter IV: Some Recollections of My Early Life
• [My Education; Desperate Characters Infesting the Western Country] 98
• @from Chapter V: Memories of Clinch River and Lynchburg
• Life on Clinch River, at Evan's Bridge 100
• Making Confederate Uniforms 102
• The King Story 104
• @from Chapter VI: The Author as Mother and Teacher - Vicissitudes
• [Return to the Cherokee Nation; Seminary Experiences] 105
• A New Variety of Burglar 107
• @from Chapter IX: Being a Miscellaneous Chapter Concerning Many Persons and Things
• @from Home at the Metropolitan 108
• @from Some Family Data 108
• @from Some Things I Have Enjoyed 108
• Buffalo Bird Woman (Waheenee, Maxidiwiac; Hidatsa, c. 1839-1932) 110
• Autobiography, As Told to Gilbert L. Wilson, From Field Notes by Wilson, 1906-1929
• Origin of the Hidatsas (vol. 13, 1913) 111
• Birth and Childhood (vol. 9, 1910) 113
• How Maxidiwiac Got Her Name (vol. 16, 1914) 114
• A Daughter's Training (vol. 18, 1915) 115
• Corn Songs (vol. 18, 1915) 116
• Goodbird is Nearly Drowned (vol. 18, 1915) 117
• Punishment of Children, of Adults; Ideas of Crime (vol. 10, 1911) 117
• June Berry (vol. 20, 1916) 118
• Courtship and Marriage (vol. 9, 1910/1912) 120
• Honor Marks of Women (vol. 11, 1912) 122
• Children's Tales (vol. 10, 1911) 122
• Story of Itsikamahidish and the Wild Potato (vol. 16, 1914) 126
• How the Prairie Chicken Was Made (vol. 18, 1915) 127
• Indian Life in Former Days Compared with the Present Life (vol. 22, 1918) 128
• Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony, Shell Flower; Paiute, c. 1844-1891) 129
• From Life Among the Piutes (1883)
• Editor's Preface [Mary Mann] 131
• Chapter I First Meeting of Piutes and Whites 131
• Chapter II Domestic and Social Moralities 146
• Chapter III Wars and Their Causes 151
• Chapter IV Captain Truckee's Death 154
• Chapter V Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes 157
• Susette LaFieschf [Tibbies] (Inshta Theamba, Bright Eyes; Omaha, 1854-1903) 169
• An Indian Woman's Letter (The Southern Workman, April, 1879) 170
• Letter to St. Nicholas (1880) 171
• From Testimony before the US Senate on the Removal of the Ponca Indians (1880) 172
• Introduction to The Ponca Chiefs, by Thomas H. Tibbles (1880) 174
• Nedawi (An Indian Story from Real Life) (St. Nicholas, January, 1881) 174
• Introduction to Ploughed Under: The Story of an Indian Chief, Told by Himself, by William Justin Harsha (1881) 179
• Omaha Legends and Tent-Stories (Wide Awake, June, 1883) 181
• Annette Leevier (Ojibwe, 1856-?) 187
• Psychic Experiences of an Indian Princess, Daughter of Chief Tommyhawk (1920)
• To Sitting Bull - The Sioux Brave 188
• Healing 197
• Trailing 198
• Titanic Prophecy 199
• Soul Flight 199
• Waiting 200
• Tiffin Prophecy 201
• Tribute from Chief Tommyhawk 203
• Obsession and Spirit Conditions 203
• Obsession 204
• E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake, Double Wampum; Mohawk, 1861-1913) 207
• From Flint and Feather (1912)
• Canada (Acrostic) 209
• The Cattle Thief 209
• The Corn Husker 210
• Erie Waters 211
• The Idlers 211
• In the Shadows 212
• The Indian Corn Planter 214
• Joe An Etching 214
• Low Tide at St. Andrews (New Brunswick) 215
• Lullaby of the Iroquois 215
• Marshlands 216
• Penseroso 216
• The Quill Worker 217
• Shadow River Muskoka 217
• Thistle-Down 218
• Under Canvas In Muskoka 219
• The Wolf 219
• Wolverine 220
• From American Canoe Club Year Book (1893)
• The Portage 222
• Fiction and Prose Nonfiction
• From The Moccasin Maker (1913)
• Catharine of the "Crow's Nest" 222
• The Envoy Extraordinary 228
• As It Was in the Beginning 232
• From The Shagganappi (1913)
• Little Wolf-Willow 236
• Sons of Savages 241
• From Legends of Vancouver (1922)
• The Lost Salmon-Run 242
• The Sea-Serpent 245
• Mabel Washbourne Anderson (Cherokee, 1863-1949) 248
• Nowita, the Sweet Singer
• A Romantic Tradition of Spavinaw, Indian Territory (Twin Territories, January, 1903) 249
• Joe Jamison's Sacrifice (Sturm's, January, 1906) 255
• Sophia Alice Callahan (Muscogee/Creek, 1868-1894) 259
• From Wynema, A Child of the Forest (1891)
• [Dedication] 260
• Chapter II The School 263
• Chapter III Some Indian Dishes 264
• Chapter VI An Indian Burial 265
• Chapter VII A Strange Ceremony 267
• Chapter IX Some Changes 268
• Chapter XI In the Old Home 268
• Chapter XII A Conservative 270
• Chapter XIII Shall We Allot? 271
• Chapter XIV More Concerning Allotments 273
• Fox Indian Woman (Mesquakie/Fox, fl. 1918)/Truman Michelson 275
• The Autobiography of a Fox Indian Woman (1918) (with Dalottiwa, Horace Poweshiek, and Truman Michelson) 276
• Owl Woman (Juana Manwell; Papago, fl. 1880)/Frances Densmore (1867-1957) 289
• From Papago Music (1929)
• Songs for Treating Sickness, Sung during the Four Parts of the Night 290
• Parts One and Two: Beginning Songs and Songs Sung before Midnight 290
• No. 72 "Brown Owls" 290
• No. 73 "In the Blue Night" 290
• No. 74 "The Owl Feather" 290
• No. 75 "They Come Hooting" 290
• No. 76 "In the Dark I Enter" 291
• No. 77 "His Heart is Almost Covered with Night" 291
• No. 78 "I See Spirit-Tufts of White Feathers" 291
• No. 79 "Yonder Lies the Spirit Land" 291
• NN/NT ["Sadly I was treated, sadly I was treated"] 291
• No. 80 "Song of a Spirit" 291
• No. 81 "We Will Join Them" 291
• No. 82 "My Feathers" 292
• No. 83 "The Women are Singing" 292
• NN/NT ["In the great night my heart will go out"] 292
• NN/NT ["On the west side they are singing, the women hear it"] 292
• No. 84 "I Am Going to See the Land" 292
• No. 85 "I Run Toward Ashes Hill" 292
• No. 86 "The Waters of the Spirits" 292
• Parts Three and Four: Songs Sung between Midnight and Early Morning 292
• No. 87 "There Will I See the Dawn" 292
• No. 88 "I Run Toward the East" 293
• No. 89 "I Die Here" 293
• No. 90 "I Could See the Daylight Coming" 293
• No. 91 "The Dawn Approaches" 293
• No. 92 "The Owl Feather is Looking for the Dawn" 293
• No. 93 "The Morning Star" 293
• No. 94 "Song of a Medicine Woman on Seeing that a Sick Person Will Die" 293
• Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin; Sioux, 1876-1938) 294
• From American Indian Magazine
• The Indian's Awakening (January-March, 1916) 296
• The Red Man's America (January-March, 1917) 298
• A Sioux Woman's Love for Her Grandchild (October-December, 1917) 299
• From Old Indian Legends (1904)
• Iktomi and the Ducks 301
• Iktomi and the Muskrat 303
• From American Indian Stories (1921)
• Impressions of an Indian Childhood 304
• I. My Mother 304
• II. The Legends 305
• III. The Beadwork 307
• IV. The Coffee-Making 308
• V. The Dead Man's Plum Bush 309
• VI. The Ground Squirrel 310
• VII. The Big Red Apples 311
• The School Days of an Indian Girl 313
• I. The Land of Red Apples 313
• II. The Cutting of My Long Hair 314
• III. The Snow Episode 315
• IV. The Devil 316
• V. Iron Routine 316
• VI. Four Strange Summers 317
• VII. Incurring My Mother's Displeasure 319
• An Indian Teacher Among Indians 320
• I. My First Day 320
• II. A Trip Westward 321
• III. My Mother's Curse upon White Settlers 323
• IV. Retrospection 323
• The Soft-Hearted Sioux 324
• A Warrior's Daughter 328
• The Great Spirit 332
• From Various Periodicals 333
• A Year's Experience in Community Service Work Among the Ute Tribe of Indians (American Indian Magazine, October-December, 1916) 333
• Chipeta, Widow of Chief Ouray, With a Word About a Deal in Blankets (American Indian Magazine July-September, 1917) 335
• Indian Gifts to Civilized Man (The Indian Sentinel, July 1918; also in Tomahawk, July, 1919) 337
• Editorial Comment (American Indian Magazine, July-September, 1918) 338
• America, Home of the Red Man (American Indian Magazine, Winter, 1919) 339
• Letter to the Chiefs and Head-men of the Tribes (American Indian Magazine, Winter, 1919) 340
• From Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians: An Orgy of Graft and Exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes
• Legalized Robbery (1924; with Charles H. Fabens and Matthew K. Sniffen) 341
• The Professional Guardian 343
• The System at Work 344
• A Seven-Year-Old Victim 345
• In Osage County 346
• In Briefer Form 348
• The Remedy 349
• Ora V. Eddleman Reed (pseud. Mignon Schreiber; Cherokee, 1880-1968) 350
• Fiction
• From Twin Territories
• A Face at the Window (July, 1899) 352
• A Pair of Moccasins (August-December, 1899) 356
• Chapter IV A Lapse of Five Years 360
• Aunt Mary's Christmas Dinner (December, 1899) 369
• The Honor of Wynoma, A Thanksgiving Story By A Cherokee Girl (November, 1902) 372
• From Sturm's
• Billy Bearclaws, Aid to Cupid (September, 1909) 377
• Nonfiction
• [Indian Land Selection] (May, 1899) 382
• Daugherty Canyon (May, 1899) 383
• Do Not Want Them (June, 1899) 384
• Talequah (June, 1899) 384
• The Choctaw People (June, 1899) 385
• From "What the Curious Want to Know ... A Department Devoted to Enquirers." (1900-1902) 386
• Indian Wit and Wisdom (March, 1906) 388
• Indian Proverbs (March, 1906) 389
• When The Cowboy Reigned (April, 1906) 389
• Father of 90,000 Indians (July, 1906) 390
• Indian Tales Between Pipes (November, 1906) 392
• The Indian Orphan (January, 1908) 394
• Daughters of Confederacy (June, 1910) 395
• Various Authors 399
• From Cherokee Rose Buds (1854)
• Corinne, Our Wreath of Rose Buds 401
• Anonymous, [Editorial] 402
• Ka-Ya-Kun-Stah, An Osage Wedding 402
• Na-Li, An Address to the Females of the Cherokee Nation 403
• Edith, View from our Seminary 403
• Wah-Lie, Childhood 404
• Letilla, The Gardening Season
• A Great Time Among All Matrons 404
• Anonymous, A Dialogue Between Susan and Ellen 404
• Cherokee, Dissipation 405
• Lusette, Kate M
• 's Composition 405
• Inez, A Peep into the Future 406
• Flora Green, A Dream 406
• Dora, Queer Matty 407
• From A Wreath of Cherokee Rose Buds (August, 1855)
• Anonymous, [Editorial] 407
• Na-Li (Scene I); Fanny (Scene II), Two Scenes in Cherokee Land 408
• Alice, Beauty 409
• Kate, A Walk 410
• Qua-Tsy, Female Influence 410
• Lelia, Critics and Criticism 411
• Lily Lee, Literary Day Among the Birds 412
• Grace, Intemperance 413
• Leonora, The Mouse's Will 413
• From The Indian Helper (June 20, 1890)
• Nellie Robertson, A Trip to the Moon, A Composition by One of Our Imaginative Sioux Girls 414
• From The Indian Leader (June, 1897)
• [Bright Eyes], Autobiography of an Indian Girl 415
• From The Indian Leader (October 27, 1899)
• Myrtle Dixon, The Story of Columbus 416
• From The Indian Leader (October, 1899)
• Anonymous, An Indian Girl's History, Written by Herself 417
• From The Indian Leader (May 3, 1901)
• Edith Tourtillotte, A Fish Story 418
• From The Indian Leader (January 31, 1902)
• Elena Byanuaba, An Autobiography 419
• From Twin Territories (December, 1902)
• Alice Phillips, Legend of the Cricket 420
• From Twin Territories (April, 1903) For the Little Chiefs and their Sisters
• Hellen Rebecca Anderson, The Unruly Pigs 421
• From Sturm's (September, 1905)
• Adella Washee, A Summer Day 421
• From The Indian Leader (December, 1908)
• Julia Seelatsee, A Christmas Festival Among the Indians 421
• From Red Man (September, 1910)
• Evelyn Pierce, A Seneca Tradition 422
• From Red Man (October, 1910)
• Emma LaVatta, Shoshoni, The Story of the Deerskin 423
• From The Indian Leader (January 20, 1911)
• Luciana Cheerless, A Pima Legend 423
• From The Indian Leader (March 3, 1911)
• Clara Talavenska Keshoitewa, Hopi, Saquavicha, the Fox-Girl 424
• From The Indian Leader (January, 1912)
• Minnie Pike, Eut, In a Snow Drift 425
• From The Carlisle Arrow (December 27, 1912)
• Isabel LaVatta, Babetta's Christmas 426
• From The Red Man (December, 1912)
• Emma M. Newashe, The Merman's Prophecy 427
• From The Indian Leader (December 26, 1919)
• Anonymous, Left Overs From Good English Week. Slogans and Rhymes by Vocational IV, Girls 428
• Evelyn Leary, A Story of Modern Knights 428.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 0631205179
• 0631205187

OCLC:

43318938