Tribal theory in Native American literature
Subtitle: Dakota and Haudenosaunee writing and indigenous worldviews
By: Penelope Myrtle Kelsey.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803227712
Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature; Indian philosophy -- North America; Indians in literature
Notes: This book attempts to show how we might use tribal knowledges as theoretical frameworks for reading Native American texts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: indigenous knowledge as tribal theory; title: Pictographs and politics in Marie McLaughlin's Myths and legends of the Sioux: a Dakota storyteller in the Oza tradition; title: Charles Eastman's role in Native American resistance literature: a "real indian" to the boy scouts; title: Zitkala a, sentiment, and tiopaye: reading Dakota rhetorics of nation and gender; title: Ella Deloria's decolonizing role as camp historian in Waterlily: sisters, brothers, and the Hakata relationship; title: A gendered future: Wi and Hawi in contemporary Dakota writing; title: Tribal theory travels: Kanien'kehaka poet Maurice Kenny and the gantowisas.