English 254

Western American Literature

Fall 2000: "Cowboys and Indians"

Class Requirements and Expectations
Class Requirements, Expectations, and Assignments for Fall 2000 classes.

Book Analysis Assignment.
Format for optional Book Analysis assignment as well as a suggested Reading List.

Movie Analysis Assignment
Format for optional Movie Analysis assignment.

"Nineteenth Century Native American Autobiography as Captivity Narrative"
Text of an article published by Dr. Bloomfield in Heritage of the Great Plains 30.1 (Spring/Summer 1997): 33-48.

"Elia Peattie: Frontier Journalist"
Text of a paper about a 19th century Omaha Journalist and her comments about Wounded Knee read by Dr. Bloomfield at the western Literature Association Conference.

Internet Links

Cowboys

Click here for WestWeb Western History Resource.

Click here for Cowboys and Indians magazine.

Click here for the Old West Web Ride Home Page.

Click here for the Wild West Home Page.

Click here for Cowgirls of Today and Yesterday.

Click here for Women of the West Museum.

Indians

Click here for History of New Mexico and great Navajo and Pueblo Indian Links.

Click here for Indian Country Today newspaper Home Page.

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 the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska Home Page

Click here for the Home Page of Lakota Sioux, Wendall Deer With Horns

Click here for the Wampanoag Tribe Website

Click here for the Spokane Tribe Website

bloomfields@unk.edu

Dr. Susanne K. Bloomfield
Professor of English
204 Thomas Hall
University of Nebraska at Kearney
Kearney, NE 68849-1320