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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- 1 “Honoratissimi benefactores” Native American students and two seventeenth-century texts in the university tradition
- 2 “Pray Sir, consider a little”: Rituals of subordination and strategies of resistance in the letters of Hezekiah Calvin and David Fowler to Eleazar Wheelock
- 3 “(I speak like a fool but I am constrained)”: Samson Occom's Short Narrative and economies of the racial self
- 4 “Where, then, shall we place the hero of the wilderness?”: William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip and doctrines of racial destiny
- 5 “They ought to enjoy the home of their fathers”: The treaty of 1838, Seneca intellectuals, and literary genesis
- 6 “I am Joaquin!”: Space and freedom in Yellow Bird's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit
- 7 “This voluminous unwritten book of ours”: Early Native American writers and the oral tradition
- 8 “A terrible sickness among them”: Smallpox and stories of the frontier
- 9 “A desirable citizen, a practical business man”: G. W. Grayson – Creek mixed blood, nationalist, and autobiographer
- 10 “An Indian … An American”: Ethnicity, assimilation, and balance in Charles Eastman's From the Deep Woods to Civilization
- 11 “Overcoming all obstacles”: The assimilation debate in Native American women's journalism of the Dawes era
- 12 “My people … my kind”: Mourning Dove's Cogewea, The Half-Blood as a narrative of mixed descent
- 13 “Because I understand the storytelling art”: The evolution of D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded
List of Contributors
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- 1 “Honoratissimi benefactores” Native American students and two seventeenth-century texts in the university tradition
- 2 “Pray Sir, consider a little”: Rituals of subordination and strategies of resistance in the letters of Hezekiah Calvin and David Fowler to Eleazar Wheelock
- 3 “(I speak like a fool but I am constrained)”: Samson Occom's Short Narrative and economies of the racial self
- 4 “Where, then, shall we place the hero of the wilderness?”: William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip and doctrines of racial destiny
- 5 “They ought to enjoy the home of their fathers”: The treaty of 1838, Seneca intellectuals, and literary genesis
- 6 “I am Joaquin!”: Space and freedom in Yellow Bird's The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit
- 7 “This voluminous unwritten book of ours”: Early Native American writers and the oral tradition
- 8 “A terrible sickness among them”: Smallpox and stories of the frontier
- 9 “A desirable citizen, a practical business man”: G. W. Grayson – Creek mixed blood, nationalist, and autobiographer
- 10 “An Indian … An American”: Ethnicity, assimilation, and balance in Charles Eastman's From the Deep Woods to Civilization
- 11 “Overcoming all obstacles”: The assimilation debate in Native American women's journalism of the Dawes era
- 12 “My people … my kind”: Mourning Dove's Cogewea, The Half-Blood as a narrative of mixed descent
- 13 “Because I understand the storytelling art”: The evolution of D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded
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- Early Native American WritingNew Critical Essays, pp. xiii - xviPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996