Changing is not vanishing : a collection of early American Indian poetry to 1930 / edited by Robert Dale Parker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Robert Dale, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Indian authors.

American poetry.

Indians of North America--Poetry.

Indians of North America.

Indian poetry--Translations into English.

Indian poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 438 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing. Although the field has grown rapidly, early works-especially poetry-remain mostly unknown and inaccessible. Changing Is Not Vanishing simultaneously reinvents the early history of American Indian literature and the history of American poetry by presenting a vast but forgotten archive of American Indian poems. Through extensive archival research in small-circulation newspapers and magazines, manuscripts, pamphlets, rare books, and scrapbooks, Robert Dale Parker has uncovered the work of more than 140 early Indian poets who wrote before 1930. Changing Is Not Vanishing includes poems by 82 writers and provides a full bibliography of all the poets Parker has identified-most of them unknown even to specialists in Indian literature. In a wide range of approaches and styles, the poems in this collection address such topics as colonialism and the federal government, land, politics, nature, love, war, Christianity, and racism. With a richly informative introduction and extensive annotation, Changing Is Not Vanishing opens the door to a trove of fascinating, powerful poems that will be required reading for all scholars and readers of American poetry and American Indian literature.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

The Garden of the Mind: An Introduction to Early American Indian Poetry

Poems

Eleazar

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

William Walker, Jr., Wyandot, 1800-1874

Israel Folsom (Choctaw)

An Indian (Jesse Bushyhead?) (Cherokee)

John Rollin Ridge / Yellow Bird (Cherokee)

Te-con-ees-kee (Cherokee)

Si-tu-a-kee, Jr. (Cherokee)

William Penn Boudinot (Cherokee)

Tso-le-oh-woh (Cherokee)

C. H. Campbell (Cherokee)

Former Student of the Cherokee Male Seminary (Cherokee)

Joshua Ross (Cherokee)

Peter Perkins Pitchlynn (Choctaw)

John Gunter Lipe (Cherokee)

Anonymous Cherokee (Cherokee)

David J. Brown

James Harris Guy (Chickasaw)

John Lynch Adair (Cherokee)

John Palmer (Chemakum, Skokomish)

Joseph Lynch Martin (Cherokee)

Wenonah (Cherokee)

Hors de Combat (Cherokee)

Alexander Posey (Creek [Muskogee])

William Abbott Thompson (Cherokee)

Rufus Buck (Yuchi)

James Roane Gregory (Euchee [Yuchi], Muskogee [Creek])

Kingfisher (Cherokee)

J. C. Duncan (Cherokee)

Richard C. Adams (Delaware [Lenape])

Too-qua-stee / De Witt Clinton Duncan (Cherokee)

Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (Montaukett)

BOARDING SCHOOL POEMS

Notable False Attributions

Bibliography of Poems by American Indians to 1930

Textual Notes

Works Cited

Index

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-432) and index.

ISBN:

9781283890403

1283890402

9780812200065

0812200063

OCLC:

794700583