"The author begins with the land and Native Americans in the New World, including what is in the United States, decentering or defamiliarizing the Anglo-American tradition by beginning with the Indigenous peoples and their languages and discussing poets of aboriginal, African, and Asian backgrounds in poetry and translation. With settlers, the author begins with Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, a Creole writing an epic in Spanish, and ends with Forrest Gander, also born in the United States, including a poem that mixes English and Spanish. In between, a mixed group of poets is discussed to show the richness and diversity of American poetry and culture: Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Joan Kane, Marilyn Chin, Russell Leong, and the translation of Shuri Kido by Gander and Tomoyuki Endo."

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Inspired by the tenets of postcolonial ecocriticism, theories of settler colonialism, and indigenous ecologies, this study examines the connection Mahmoud Darwish establishes between the colonized people and natural elements in his poem "The Red Indian's Penultimate Speech to the White Man" while making reference to Native American oral traditions and Chief Seattle's speech."

"This paper focuses on the challenges of including Native American literature in the course on nineteenth century American literature. Survey literature courses often feature canonical works and exclude minority or contrarian voices. My literature survey course includes the creation stories of four Native American tribes originating from different parts of the U.S., together with the works of contemporary Native American writers reflecting on the pre-colonisation and colonisation periods of American history. The process of teaching the course foregrounded the tensions between the dominant white settler mentality and the political and social marginality of Native Americans, making my students aware of the importance of multivalent analyses of literary and historical texts. Throughout the course, we discussed prevalent stereotypes about Native Americans in American literature. The experience of teaching this course leads me to the conclusion that it is important to discuss various marginalised voices in the survey courses on nineteenth century American literature. These texts reflect themes related to race, gender, religion, and ownership of land that go beyond literature to include social, political and historical issues, helping our students develop a better understanding of American culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]:"

"This piece explores Indigenous knowledge-keeping and -sharing of Turtle Island, the place currently called the United States, especially as it relates to ancestral knowledge, oral tradition, and the living place of our knowledge—the land, and the fields of bibliography and book history."

"This piece considers the use of the terms Indigenous, American Indian, Native American , and Indian in historical writing. Placing each of these labels in historical context, Bauer and Ellis trace the evolution of language used to talk about Native Americans and offer context and critiques of diverse usages. By tracking between the past and present, the authors also consider contemporary terminology usage among Native communities, and demonstrate generational shifts among their own communities. Bauer and Ellis argue in favor of using the specific names of tribal nations whenever possible and demonstrate that generalizing terms, like Indigenous and Native American primarily serve to describe Native peoples through their relations to colonization rather than on their own terms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]"

"This article presents information related to Native American writers. Throughout the twentieth century, the voices of Native Americans have provided an essential American "Other" by which White U.S.'s image becomes defined. From the early years of the century, when Indians were still portrayed as ignorant savages, cordoned off in reservations and destined to cultural and physical death by assimilation, up to the late twentieth century, when New Age pilgrims sought out Natives for romantic ecological insights, White Americans long believed that whatever "We" are, the Indian was always something 'Other.'"

"The study draws upon ideas from recent historical studies such as Heather Cox Richardson's Wounded Knee (2010) and Elliot West's The Last Indian War (2009) as well as sources used by Alexie himself in the writing of the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]"

"This speech is presented by Indigenous studies scholar Simon J. Ortiz, delivered at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference held at the University of Georgia April 10, 2008. It discusses the role of the English language in Indigenous communities and the study of Indigenous peoples. Other topics include the effects of colonization and marginalization on Indigenous peoples, oral tradition, and Indigenous languages."

"Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's novel "Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy" (1999), examines both the relationship between the Native American past and present as well as how oral tradition affects contemporary literature. The trilogy, which acknowledges that history is a story rather than an absolute truth, also addresses important issues that Native Americans have faced. Such issues include the spiritual loss that Indians have suffered with the destruction of their environment and the conflict that they have faced in choosing between their desire to control their own destiny and their responsibility to their people. In the novel, storytelling, the storyteller, and the story play important roles in preserving Dakotah history. Consequently, Dakotahs have a responsibility to their community and to society at large to record and preserve their history."

"Focuses on the oral tradition among American Indians with reference to a Dakota family. History of the family; Presence of oral history with oral tradition; Story relating to the removal of Indians from Dakota."

"Comments on the poems and stories of Sherman Alexie on the culture of Indians in the United States. Depiction of the nature of reservation life; Distortion of Indian literature and culture; Reinforcement of the drunken Indian stereotype in the works of the writer."

"Focuses on the impact of compulsory English alphabetic education on American Indians. Experiences and views of the educated Indians; Societal and psychological impact; Literacy as an embodiment of tribal epistemologies that interacts with and depends upon a collective oral tradition."

"Analyzes myths and traditions of storytelling of American Indians introduced by Joy Harjo in her poem "The Book of Myths." Common survival themes in native rituals and ceremonies; Origins of natural sights and phenomena; Boundaries crossed by native myths; Functions of storytelling; Subject-position; Other sample poems."

"Examines children's literature featuring traditional Native American tales. Children's understanding of the beauty of words; "The Battle of the Attiyiyi and Toqueenut," an oral tradition shared by the Wasco, Wishram, Cascade, and Klickitat tribes of the Northwest; "The Great Race of the Birds and Animals," a story shared by the Lakota, Cheyenne, and other Plains Indians; More."