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  • What To Do?

    by Arnold Krupat ...
    What to Do? a novel is a single, unified work made up of a number of mostly inter-linked parts all bearing, in one way or another, on the question, What are we to do with our lives? One character who re-appears at different points in the book is a middle-aged, rural widow whose son has mentioned to her that no one ever seems to have written out--spelled out--all the numbers from one to one million ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Boarding Schools

    Apache Indian Students Speak

    by Arnold Krupat ...
    Arnold Krupat’s From the Boarding Schools makes available previously unheard Apache voices from the Indian boarding schools. It includes selections from two unpublished autobiographies by Sam Kenoi and Dan Nicholas, produced in the 1930s with the anthropologist Morris Opler, as well as material by and about Vincent Natalish, a contemporary of Kenoi and Nicholas.Natalish was one of more than one ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Boarding School Voices

    Carlisle Indian School Students Speak

    by Arnold Krupat ...
    Boarding School Voices is both an anthology of mostly unpublished writing by former students of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and a study of that writing. The boarding schools’ ethnocidal practices have become a metaphor for the worst evils of colonialism, a specifiable source for the ills that beset Native communities today. But the fuller story is one not only of suffering and pain, loss ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Changed Forever

    American Indian Boarding-School Literature

    by Arnold Krupat ...
    Series series SUNY series, Native Traces
    The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.After a theoretical and historical introduction to American Indian boarding-school literature, Changed Forever, Volume II examines the autobiographical writings of a number of Native Americans who attended the federal Indian boarding schools. Considering a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • "That the People Might Live"

    Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy

    by Arnold Krupat ...
    The word "elegy" comes from the Ancient Greek elogos, meaning a mournful poem or song, in particular, a song of grief in response to loss. Because mourning and memorialization are so deeply embedded in the human condition, all human societies have developed means for lamenting the dead, and, in "That the People Might Live," Arnold Krupat surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Changed Forever

    American Indian Boarding-School Literature

    by Arnold Krupat ...
    Series series SUNY series, Native Traces
    The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Companion to James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk

    Edited by Arnold Krupat ...
    James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular importance as the culminating novel in his canon. A historical novel, Heartsong follows a Lakota (Sioux) man at the end of the nineteenth century as he travels with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show; is left behind in Marseille, France; and then struggles to ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Red Matters

    Native American Studies

    by Arnold Krupat ...
    Series series Rethinking the Americas
    Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red—Native American culture, history, and literature—should matter to Americans more than it has to date. Although there exists a growing body of criticism demonstrating the importance of Native American literature in its own right and in relation ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Red Matters

    Native American Studies

    by Arnold Krupat ...
    Series series Rethinking the Americas
    Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red—Native American culture, history, and literature—should matter to Americans more than it has to date. Although there exists a growing body of criticism demonstrating the importance of Native American literature in its own right and in relation ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Native American Renaissance

    Literary Imagination and Achievement

    Edited by Alan R. Velie, A. Robert Lee ...
    Series series American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
    The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American Renaissance. This collection ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Red Land, Red Power

    Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel

    by Sean Kicummah Teuton, Donald E. Pease ...
    Series series New Americanists
    In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of “Red Power,” an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game

    At the Center of Ceremony and Identity

    by Michael J. Zogry ...
    Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it lasted so long, surviving through centuries of upheaval and change?Based on his work in the field and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD