2S_Native Americans

Native Americans

Hieroglyphics

- origins -

Native American Literature

Middle America

Storytelling

-Myths -Legends -Folktales

Beliefs

Link between humans and plants, animals, rocks, etc. Animal people Plant people (Before humans appeared)

TÍTULO

Beliefs

Spiritual kinship (living and dead relatives).

Teller Direct relation with the listener.

Native American Stories

Writer Solitary. Talking to the pages.

Native American Stories

TÍTULO

Written works

White migration (MIssionaries, Christianity)

Mohegan Indian

Samson Occom

(1723-1792) Father of Native American Literature

Pequot Indian

William Apes

(1798-1839) 1st autobiography published

AutobiographiesBreaking the oral tradition: inappropriate to talk about oneself

Most popular genre (XIX-XX)

Cherokee Indian

TÍTULO

John Rollin Ridge

(1827-1867) 1st NA novel published (bandit)

Muscogee Indian

TÍTULO

Sophia Alice Callahan

(1868-1894) 1st NA novel published by a woman

Kiowa and Cherokee Indian

Navarre Scott Momaday (1934- )

*Pulitzer Prize *Reference of NA literature

XX century-now:-Dispossession ancestral lands.-Fear that oral tradition disappears.

Preserve traditions: writing!

www.britannica.com/art/Native_American_literature +nativeamericanwriters.com +faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/native_american_literture.htm