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Pub. Date
2011
Description
Intimate and illuminating conversations with one of America's foremost Native artists
Joy Harjo is a "poet-healer-philosopher-saxophonist," and one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. She has spent the past two decades exploring her place in poetry, music, dance/performance, and art. Soul Talk, Song Language gathers together in one complete collection many of these explorations and conversations.
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Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Learn about the life events and aspirations that shaped the voices of ten influential Native writers, whose novels, short stories and plays encompass the soul of Native life. Learn how these writers draw from personal experience to create situations and characters that are entertaining and poignant. Featured writers include:
Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene) Marilyn Dumont (Cree/Métis)
Joseph Boyden (Cree/Métis) Louise Erdrich (Ojibwa)
Joseph...
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Notable Writers of the American West & the Native American Experience is a collection with broad appeal. The range of entries for this volume includes writers so varied that readers with a passing interest in discovering Americas storytelling history of the Western frontier (as it was redefined throughout our history), readers with a desire to understand the wealth of ancient Indigenous stories passed down in the oral tradition, students endeavoring...
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Description
This pioneering work, first published in 1986, documents the continuing vitality of the American Indian tradition and of women's leadership within that tradition. In her new preface to this edition, Allen reflects on the remarkable resurgence of American Indian pride and culture in recent times.
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