English 254: Native American Literature CD
Fall 2008
Native American Literature will examine the texts of American
Indian
writers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The class will
focus on the distinctive features of the various tribes and time
periods represented in these works, a comparison of their themes,
symbols, characterizations, styles, narrative techniques, and cultural
significance, as well as their place in the American literary
tradition. The class will also examine the evolving relationship
between Euramerican settlers and Native Americans, how stereotypical
images of the Indian developed over time and the reality of these
images today, and how Native American authors use mediation in crossing
cultural boundaries.
The books for the course will include Waterlily
by Ella Cara Delortia, The Long Knives Are Crying
by Joseph Marshall III, Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan,
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, and Indian
Killer by Sherman Alexie, and
Grandpa was a
Cowboy and an Indian and Other Stories by Virginia Driving
Hawk Sneve.
English
254
Expectations and Requirements
Class requirements and assignment explanations for English 254: Native
American Literature.
English 254 Revised Daily Assignments
Revised Class Assignments for Native American Literature.
Sample Reading
Responses
Examples of reading responses using quotations in MLA format.
Writing
about
Literature
Suggestions for required Literary Analysis paper.
Book
List &
Outside Book Analysis
Suggested reading List and Required format for the Book Analysis.
Movie
Review
Required format for the Movie Review.
Mean
Spirit "A"
Student Model for an "A" paper.
Mean
Spirit "B"
Student Model for a "B" paper.
Crazy Horse "C"
Student Model for a "C" paper.
Works
Cited Format
How to correctly site sources in Works Cited.
Guides
for Writers
An online searchable version of Diane Hacker's handbook as well as
other writing nd fresearch guides.
"Getting
an A on a Research Paper"
An online guide from Jack Lynch, Associate Professor of Linguistics at
the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
"The
Miniature Earth"
A short video on the diversity in the world.
NATIVE AMERICAN RESEARCH SOURCES
Native
American Search Engine
Studies
in American Indian Literatures
The Home Page of SAIL which contains full texts of
journal
articles from Series 1 (1977-1987, volumes 1.1-11.2)and most articles
from Series 2 (1989-2005, volumes 1.1-17.4).
Wicazo
Sa
The web site for full texts of articles from the Wicazo Sa
journal.
American
Indian Quarterly
The Home Page of American Indian Quarterly which
contains full texts of journal articles.
WWW Virtual Library
Resources on native Americans
NativeWiki
Encyclopedia written by and amoug Native American topics
Native Americans Today
Native
American Musicians
Online
Newspapers and Magazines
AAA Native Arts. Some
movie reviews
Native
American Backgrounds
Click
here
for a Native American Recommended Reading List.
Click here
for Native American Authors Online.
Click here
for Native Web.
Click here
for Internet Public Library's Native American Authors Project.
Click here
for the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska Home Page
Click here
for the Choctaw Nation Home Page.
Click here
electronic texts of Sioux writings.
Click here
for Native American Resources.
Click here
for Native American genealogy research and history.
Click here
for the Native American Relief Council.
Native American Authors
Ella
Cara DeLoria
Click here
UC at Berkeley's biography of Deloria.
Click here
for an article on Deloria's first 1920 pageant.
Click here
for the topography of Box Butte.
Click here
for Sioux languages and links to official home pages for individual
Sioux nations.
Click here
for a mini-lesson on the Lakota language.
Click here
for a Native perspective on boarding schools and language
misinterpretation.
Click here
for background on the Sioux nations.
Click here for
the Lakota Teaching Project Home Page.
Click here for
background on tiyospaye.
Click here
for Dakota culture and history.
Click here
for Lakota wisdom and culture.
Click here for
the modern Sioux Kit Fox Society.
Click here
for a discussion of smallpox as germ warfare against the American
Indians.
Click here
for the American government and health problems of early American
Indians.
Click here
for background on the Plains Indians and the Sun Dance.
Joseph
Marshall III
THUNDERDREAMERS,
the official web site of Joseph Marshall III
A
review of On Behalf of the Wolf and the First Peoples
Sioux
Reservation Act of 1889
1887
Dawes Act or General Allotment Act
Background
on
Iktomi
Iktomi
and another story
Hiawatha Insane
Asylum in Canton, South Dakota
Hiawatha
Insane Asylum
Photos
of the Hiawatha Insane Asylum
"A
Haunting Legacy," stories from Hiawatha
Native
American biography of Crazy Horse
Crazy
Horse Memorial
Little
Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
National
Park Service History of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Sitting
Bull Biography
Burial
Scaffold
Indian
with a Pistol Photograph
Horsemanship
Video
Sioux
Battles--US
Army Site
Rosebud
Battlefield State Park
Linda
Hogan
A
biography and bibliography for Linda Hogan
A
longer biography of Linda Hogan
An
Interview with Linda Hogan
A reading by
Linda Hogan
Official Site of the
Chickasaw Nation
Official site of the Osage
Nation
Background
on the Roaring Twenties
Fashion
in the 1920s
More
1920s fashion
Osage
Art and Clothing
More
1920s fashion
More
1920s fashion
Overview
of the Native American Church
Wikipedia
article on the Native American Church
History of peyote
Trail of Tears Association
Water Drum music
An FBI
summary of the case
Original
FBI files on the Osage Indian murders
John
Joseph Mathew's book Sundown on the Osage
murders
Reviews of
Dennis McAuliff's novel Bloodland
about the murders
Neihardt's
Sacred Hoop Prayer Garden
List
of Power Animals [Not NA site!]
Information
on crickets
Information
on Beefalo
Leslie Marmon Silko
A biography of Leslie Marmon Silko
An analysis of Ceremony
Photos and maps of places in Ceremony
PBS Bataan Death March stories
The Army's descriptionj of Battle Fatigue
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Indian Ceremonies for Veteran
Backgrounds Facts for Ceremony
Hopi Katsina
Hopi Katsina Dolls
Native American Buildings
The sacred mountains, including Mount Taylor
2006 Tests for uranium contamination in Cebolleta Land Grant
NPR's information on the Trinity Atomic Bomb Site
Sherman
Alexie
Click here
for Sherman Alexie's Home Page
Click here
for a 2006 interview with Sherman Alexie.
.
Click here
for more on Sherman Alexie.
Click here
for 11/06 article by Alexie about the Seattle Sonics and Starbucks.
Click here
for photographs of Seattle.
Click here
for photographs of "The Hammering Man" in Seattle.
Click here
for Real Change, an online newspaper of the poor
and homeless of Seattle.
Click here
for a bio on Fuhrman and his racism.
Click here
for Mark Fuhrman's novels, including Murder in Seattle.
Click here
for the "Unofficial Tony Hillerman Homepage."
Click here
for "Lost Bird of Wounded Knee."
Click here
for "Walking in Two Worlds."
Click here
for background on the Split Feather Syndrome.
Click here
for NICWA Indian adoption resources.
Click here
for the John Smith/Pocohantas story.
Click here
for the Native legends about Bigfoot.
Click here
for Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.
Click here
for background on Chief Big Foot.
Click here
for a biography of General Phillip Sheridan.
Click here
for photo of Bigfoot, Wovoka, and Wounded Knee.
Click here
for the story of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman.
Click here
for a history of Col. Wright (Battle of Steptoe) and his slaughter of
800 Indian horses.
Click here
for a synopsis and review of Ford's movie The Searchers
starring John Wayne.
Click here
for Watts race riot of 1965
Virginia
Driving Hawk Sneve
bloomfields@unk.edu
Dr.
Susanne (George) Bloomfield
Professor of English
109D Thomas Hall
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Kearney, NE 68849-1320
308-865-8867