AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURE AT THE GOLDA MEIRLIBRARY
May 6, 1996 - June 30, 1996
Authors, A-B
| Sherman Alexie | Marilou Awiakta | Kimberly M. Blaeser |
| Paula Gunn Allen | Shonto Begay | Blue Cloud Quarterly |
| Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi) | Gloria Bird | Joseph Bruchac |
Sherman Alexie, 1966- .
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven. New York:Harper Perennial, 1994.
Author’s Signed Presentation Copy to the Golda Meir Library.
Call Number: (SPL) PS 3551 .L35774 L66 1994
Sherman Alexie, 1966- .
Reservation Blues. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.
Call Number: (SPL) PS 3551 .L35774 R74 1995
First Edition, with the Author’s Signed Presentation Inscription to the GoldaMeir Library.
A young writer of Spokane/Coeur d’Alene descent, Alexie received high praise for his first book, The Business of Fancydancing. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven was his first collection of stories to be published by a mainstream trade publisher. Alexie has written, among other things, the first literary portrayal of the importance of basketball among reservation Indians; a cultural phenomenon that is both widespread and largely unknown outside the reservations. Both his poetry and prose have earned high praise for their humor and elegiac quality.
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Paula Gunn Allen, 1939- .
A Cannon Between my Knees. New York: Strawberry Press, 1981.
Number: (SPL) PS 3551 .L397 C3 1981
Paula Gunn Allen, 1939- .
Shadow Country. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University ofCalifornia, 1982.
Call Number: (SPL) PS 3551 .L397 S5x 1982
Paula Gunn Allen is a Professor of Native American Studies at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, and one of the foremost scholars of Native American literature inthe country. Her mother was of Laguna Pueblo-Sioux ancestry, and she was raised on the edge of the Laguna Pueblo in a multicultural household. Allen shows a preference for her Laguna heritage; in both her creative and critical works, Allen forges connections between modern life and Laguna Pueblo. Allen has edited several award-winning collections of Native American women’s writing, and is an important poet and novelist in her own right.
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Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi), 1927- .
Tsalagi. New Rochelle, New York: The Elizabeth Press, 1976.
Call Number: (SPL) PS 3551 .R49 T8
Born in Oklahoma City in 1927 of Cherokee-French ancestry, Arnett received an NEA fellowship in creative writing, edited a special American Indian issue of the Beloit Poetry Journal, and has published several volumes of poetry.
This work, a cross-cultural communications chapbook, has bilingualCherokee-English text. The illustrations were supplied by Kahiones (John Fadden), a Mohawk Indian from Akseswasne. The poems were compiled by Joseph Bruchac.
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Marilou Awiakta
Rising Fawn and the Fire Mystery. Memphis: St. Luke’s Press, 1983.
Call Number: (Curriculum) A967r
In this account based on real events of 1853, Rising Fawn chronicles the adopting out of a small Choctaw girl named Rising Fawn during the Removal period. She is handed over to adoptive parents in Memphis, and goes on to assimilate into her adoptive culture.
Marilou (Bonham-Thompson) Awiakta is an Eastern Cherokee writer and poet. Active throughout her professional life in Native American issues, Rising Fawn is her first book for children. The illustrations were provided by Beverly Bringle, an artist of Choctaw descent.
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Shonto Begay
Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa. New York: Scholastic, 1995.
Call Number: (Curriculum) 811.54 B416n
Shonto Begay was born in a Navajo hogan near Shonto, Arizona, son of a Navajo medicine man. Begay is a celebrated artist, whose acrylic paintings are done in a series of small brush strokes in brilliant colors. This book combines twenty Begay paintings with his original poetry and traditional chants, and presents an intimate look at Navajo life today. The dominant themes of this work are the struggle for balance between two cultures and the struggle to protect Mother Earth against the ravages of industrial society.
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Gloria Bird
Full Moon on the Reservation. Greenfield Center, New York: Greenfield Review Press,1993.
Call Number: PS 3552 .I725x F8 1993
Gloria Bird grew up on the Spokane reservation and now teaches creative writing and literature at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Full Moon on the Reservation won the North American Native Authors First Book Award, the "Diane Decorah Award for Poetry."
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Trailing You. [Greenfield Center, New York:] Greenfield Review Press, 1994.
Call Number: (UWM) PS 3552 .L3438 T73 1994
Kimberly M. Blaeser, of Anishinaabe and German ancestry, is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and grew up on White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of EnglishUWM, where she teaches twentieth-century American literature, specializing in Native American Literature and American Nature Writing.
Her work, which includes poetry, personal essays, short fiction, journalism, and scholarly articles, has appeared in numerous American and Canadian journals and collections. Blaeser’s study of fellow White Earth writer, Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition was published this year by the University of Oklahoma Press, and is based on her 1990 doctoral thesis. Trailing You is Blaeser’s first collection of poetry.
Of her work Blaeser writes: "In both my creative and scholarly work I hope to explore the way writing can cross the boundaries of print, seeking not to report but to engender life, seeking to understand and enact the ways of survival."
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Blue Cloud Quarterly
Marvin, South Dakota.
Call Number: (SPL) PS 509 .I5 B59
Founded by Brother Tvedten, Blue Cloud Quarterly was a publication of the Benedictine Missionaries, Blue Cloud Abbey, Marvin, South Dakota. One of the most important presses for Native American literature in the 1970s and 1980s, Blue Cloud was among the first forums to anthologize Native American authors, and the only publisher of Native American lyrics. One of its most significant publications was Joseph Bruchac’s Manabozho Poems in 1974 (also held in Special Collections).
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Joseph Bruchac
Joseph Bruchac, 1942- .
The Good Message of Handsome Lake. Greensboro: Unicorn Press, 1979.
Call Number: (SPL) PS 3553 .R794 G6x
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Joseph Bruchac, 1942- .
Walking at Night with My Son, James. [s.l.]: Editioned by Landlocked Press for
Woodland Pattern, 1985.
Call Number: (SPL-Broadsides) PS 3552 .R794 W3x 1985
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Joseph Bruchac, editor, 1942- .
Raven Tells Us Stories: An Anthology of Alaskan Native Writing.
Greenfield, New York: Greenfield Review Press, 1991.
Call Number: PS 647 .I5 R38x 1991
General Collection, Golda Meir Library
Joseph Bruchac, 1942- .
The Earth Under Sky Bear’s Feet. New York: Philomel Books, 1995.
Illustrated by Thomas Locker.
Call Number: (Curriculum) 398.2 B887e
Curriculum Collection, Golda Meir Library
Joseph Bruchac, a writer of Abenaki descent, has carved out a unique place in contemporary American Indian literature as a poet, novelist, publisher, storyteller, and chronicler of traditional stories. He founded the influential Greenfield Review literary magazine and the Greenfield Review Press, which has published many writers of Native American descent and other ethnicities who might not have been published otherwise. Among the notable titles he has published is Laguna Woman, the first book by Leslie Marmon Silko. Bruchac has edited several volumes that instruct young people in Native American stories and values; he is an active storyteller and has made a number of storytelling recordings. On many fronts, his work has preserved and conveyed Native American literature, history, and culture.
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