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Literature of the American Indian by Thomas E. Sanders and Walter W. Peek - Beverly Hills, California Glencoe Press 1973 - 534 p.
Includes Index
Pre-Columbian religions : from Wah'kon-tah, the great mystery ... -- The trickster, hereos and the folk -- The soul of the Indian : pre-Columbian poetry -- The liberated and the league : the law of the Great Peace and the American epic -- The golden word unheard : oratory -- To Golgotha and back : Native American religions after the Christian invasion -- Memories miserable and magnificent : biography and autobiiography -- Anguished, angry, articulate : current voices in poetry, prose, and protest.
With 114 selections representative of at least 28 tribes as well as contemporary individual writers, this book goes from creation myths, through pre-Columbian tales and poetry; to the great orations and protest speeches, to the attempts at assimilation, and then to the present resurgence of Pan Indianism.
American Literature --Indian Authors
Indian literature United States --Translations into English
Indians of North America--Literary collections
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Literature of the American Indian by Thomas E. Sanders and Walter W. Peek - Beverly Hills, California Glencoe Press 1973 - 534 p.
Includes Index
Pre-Columbian religions : from Wah'kon-tah, the great mystery ... -- The trickster, hereos and the folk -- The soul of the Indian : pre-Columbian poetry -- The liberated and the league : the law of the Great Peace and the American epic -- The golden word unheard : oratory -- To Golgotha and back : Native American religions after the Christian invasion -- Memories miserable and magnificent : biography and autobiiography -- Anguished, angry, articulate : current voices in poetry, prose, and protest.
With 114 selections representative of at least 28 tribes as well as contemporary individual writers, this book goes from creation myths, through pre-Columbian tales and poetry; to the great orations and protest speeches, to the attempts at assimilation, and then to the present resurgence of Pan Indianism.
American Literature --Indian Authors
Indian literature United States --Translations into English
Indians of North America--Literary collections
897 San 14