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"In "I Remain Alive," Ruth J. Heflin explores the literary endeavors of five of the most prominent Native American writers from the turn of the century - Charles Eastman, Gertrude Bonnin, Luther Standing Bear, Nicholas Black Elk, and Ella Deloria - and challenges the traditional view of Native American literature." "Their stories helped shape the future of America; its identity; its developing appreciation of nature; its acceptance of alternative...
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"[T]he central character is Lipsha Morrissey, the illegitimate son of June Kashpaw and Gerry Nanapush. Lipsha brings together in his birth, rearing, and inheritance all of the major families from Erdrich's previous books, and, of course, represents the future. At a crossroads in his life, Lipsha is summoned by his grandmother. He returns to the reservation and falls in love for the first time. But the object of his newfound obsessive desire, the beautiful...
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This is the first book to study the captivity and confinement narratives generated by a single American war as it traces the development and variety of the captivity narrative genre. The author examines the complex 1862 Dakota Conflict (also called the Dakota War) by focusing on twenty-four of the dozens of narratives that European Americans and Native Americans wrote about it. This six-week war was the deadliest confrontation between whites and Dakotas...
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