| Description |
xi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 259-270. |
| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Preliterate traditions of American Indian autobiography -- The preliterate traditions at work: Whit Bull, Two Leggings, and Sarah Winnemucca -- Editors, ghosts and amanuenses -- Don Talayesva and Gregorio: two Indian autobiographers and their social scientists -- Sam Blowsnake: adapting oral forms to written autobiography -- Albert Hensley: alternate versions of the self -- Charles Alexander Eastman's Indian boyhood: romance, nostalgia, and social Darwinism -- N. Scott Momaday: oral to written tradition. |
| Subject |
Autobiography.
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Indians of North America -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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| Indexed Term |
North American Indians, history |
| ISBN |
0520062450 alkaline paper |
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