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The people and the word : reading native nonfiction / Robert Warrior.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warrior, Robert Allen.
- Series:
- Indigenous Americas.
- Indigenous Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- Indians of North America--Intellectual life.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Historiography.
- Indians in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected Native experiences. Robert Warrior traces a history of American Indian nonfiction writing, including Pequot intellectual William Apess's autobiographical works; the Osage Constitution of 1881; accounts of boarding school in the late 1880's; and modern Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's essay "The Man Made of Words."
- Contents:
- Eulogy on William Apess
- Democratic vistas of the Osage constitutional crisis
- The work of Indian pupils
- Momaday in the movement years.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9750-7
- OCLC:
- 476095902
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