Native American autobiography
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Arnold Krupat.
Contributors: Krupat, Arnold.
Series: Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 546
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Biography.; Autobiographies -- Indian authors.; Indians of North America -- History.; American literature -- Indian authors.
Description: Publisher description: Native American Autobiography is the first collection to bring together the major autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present._ The thirty narratives included here cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years. From the earliest known written memoir--a 1768 narrative by the Reverend Samson Occom, a Mohegan, reproduced as a chapter here--to recent reminiscences by such prominent writers as N. Scott Momaday and Gerald Vizenor, the book covers a broad range of Native American experience. Editor Arnold Krupat provides a general introduction, a historical introduction to each of the seven sections, extensive headnotes for each selection, and suggestions for further reading, making this an ideal resource for courses in American literature, history, anthropology, and Native American studies. General readers, too, will find a wealth of fascinating material in the life stories of these Native American men and women.
Notes: Includes index.