English 254 CD & WI:
Western American Literature: NEBRASKA WRITERS
Dr. Susanne George Bloomfield
Spring 2005
Nebraska Writers will examine the texts of Nebraska writers from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, comparing their themes, symbols, characterizations, styles, narrative techniques, cultural significance, and place in the American literary tradition. The class will also examine the conflicting relationships between American settlers, immigrants, and Native Americans as well as with nature and the land.
The following are the books to be studied: From the Deep Woods to Civilization by Charles Eastman, Bead on an Anthill by Delphine Red Shirt, My Antonia by Willa Cather, A Different Plain edited by Ladette Randolph, Plainsong by Kent Haruf, and Goodnight, Nebraska by Tom McNeal.
English 254 Expectations and Requirements
Class requirements and assignment explanations for Spring 2005 English 254: The Literature of Nebraska Writers.
English 254 Daily Assignments
Daily class assignments for Spring 2005 English 254: The Literature of Nebraska Writers.
Book Review
Required format for the Book Review.
Movie Review
Required format for the Movie Review.
A Writer's Reference
An online version of in-text citations and documenting sources from Diane Hacker's handbook.
"American History Timeline"
A list of events connected with the texts and authors we will be reading.
"Homesteading Backgrounds"
Details of the various homesteading acts.
"Fiction Factor"
An online magazine that discusses plot, setting, dialogue, and other elements of writing fiction.
Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser's website "American Life in Poetry" that features a poem a week and commentary.
NEBRASKA AUTHORS
Charles Eastman
Click here for the Native American Authors Project.
Click here for a Charles Eastman Home Page.
Click here for the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska Home Page
Click here for historical background on Effigy Mounds like those found in Beloit.
Click here for history of Samsom Occum, Mohegan minister who helped establish Dartmouth College.
Click here and here for background on Wovoka and the Ghost Dance.
Click here and here for sites concerning yesterday and today at the Pine Ridge (Red Cloud) Agency.
Click here for historical photographs of the Pine Ridge Agency.
Click here for the Library of Congress history and photographs of the Wounded Knee massacre.
Click here and here for background on the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Click here for photographs of the Wounded Knee massacre.
Click here for the 1973 Siege of Wounded Knee.
Click here for Historical information on Fort Robinson.
Click here for pictures of Fort Robinson today.
Click here for "The Lakota Ways."
Click here for a history of the YMCA.
Click here for pictures of Lake of the Woods.
Delphine Red Shirt
Click here for Women Writers of Color web site on Delphine Red Shirt.
Click here for the "official Delphine Red Shirt Home Page.
Click here for a site focusing on Bead on an Anthill.
Click here for a presentation by Delphine Red Shirt discussing "Cultural heritage and Sacred Sites."
Click here for background on Lakota "Wakes.".
Click here for background on the tiyospaye or "Kinship."
Click here electronic texts of Sioux writings.
Click here for background on the Plains Indians and the Sun Dance.
Click here for Indian Country Today newspaper Home Page. Site contains some movie reviews.
Click here for Lakota Journal newspaper.
Click here for INDIANZ, Native American news, information, and entertainment. Some movie reviews.
Click here for News from Indian Country. Site contains some movie reviews.
Click here for AAA Native Arts. Site contains some movie reviews.
Click here for Native Web.
Click here for Native American Resources.
Click here for Native American narrative of the 1973 Seige at Wounded Knee and AIM.
Click here for Information on Wounded Knee 1890 and 1973 from the Special Collections of the University of South Dakota.
Click here for Wounded Knee Takeover by Joseph Marshall III in Encyclopedia of North American Indians.
Click here for photographs of the Wounded Knee Takeover on the "Free Peltier" website.
Click here for good background sources for Sioux history and Wounded Knee events.
Click here for live music from the Native American Music Awards Home Page.
Willa Cather
Click here for Harvard University's Willa Cather site
Click here for the official WCPM Willa Cather site
Click here for Ethnic groups in Nebraska.
Click here for Immigration and Ellis Island site.
Click here for Immigration History Research Center of the University of Minnesota.
Click here for Prairie Frontier and great photographs of prairie grasses and wildflowers.
Click here for Nature Photography by Gary D. Tonhouse.
Click here for great photographs of prairie grasses and wildflowers.
Click here for link to Solomon Butcher photographs and homesteading history.
Click here for Library of Congress Solomon Butcher photographs.
Click here for Free Land for modern day "Homesteaders."
AUTHORS FROM A DIFFERENT PLAIN
Dan Chaon
Click here for Dan Chaon's works.
Karen Shoemaker
Click here for information on Karen Shoemaker.
Tom McNeal
Click here for background on Tom McNeal.
Click here for for the movie "Tully" based on McNeals' story.
Lisa Sandlin
Click here for background on Lisa Sandlin.
Click here for the history of Saint Simplicio.
Ron Block
Click here for background on Ron Block.
Click hereand here and herefor the background on the history St. Anthony preaching to the fish.
Brent Spencer
Click here for background on Brent Spencer.
Mary Helen Stefaniak
Click here for background on Mary Helen Stefaniak.
Lisa Lewis
Tom McNally
Jonis Agee
Kent Haruf
Timothy Schaffert
Meghan Daum
Gerald Shapiro
Richard Dooling
NATIVE AMERICAN BACKGROUNDS
Click here for a map of Sioux reservations in South Dakota.
Click here for Native American Resources.
Click here for Native American genealogy research and history.
Click here Native American Authors Online.
Click here for Native Web
Click here for Internet Public Library's Native American Authors Project.
Click here for A list of Sioux authors and background on the Sioux language and heritage.
Click here electronic texts of Sioux writings.
Click here for the People's Path, a website with lots of great links.
Click here for Turning Point, an interactive website that promotes international discussion on major Native American literature and issues.
bloomfields@unk.edu
Dr. Susanne (George) Bloomfield
Professor of English
204 Thomas Hall
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Kearney, NE 68849-1320
308-865-8867
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