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This unique and breathtaking collection of poetry provides both English and Ahtna language versions of many of the poems. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from MELUS, published by The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 1094 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: On the Translation of Native American Literatures. (book reviews)
Author: Nora Barry
Publication: MELUS (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnics Literature of the United States
Volume: v19Issue: n2Page: p125(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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This collection of stories is a mix of historical and contemporary fictions. The historical stories provide a background for the contemporary stories, so that the entire collection becomes a loose chronicle of the Native American experience since the European settlement of North America. A wide range of tribes is represented--Powhatan, Cherokee, Creek, Comanche, Lakota, Navajo, Ute, Keres, Ácoma, Zuni, and an unnamed southern California tribe. Each story highlights some individual s quandary--and often alienation--in negotiating and adapting to a face-to-face encounter with the whites. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Rigged?
I think this book is a personal rant passing as something to inform readers about American Indians. Can anyone become an American Indian by reclaiming an identity she denied her whole life and then writing as if she represents American Indians? To me that is strange. My observation is that the three ravingly positive reviews are so vague about the book's actual contents that one can't help feeling that they were solicited by the author's friends. The one negative review was, by contrast, very detailed and seems to have been unsolicited!

Anger Management
There are so many holocausts, so many genocides.We, the humans, are evil monkeys, no two ways about it.I often doubt to the extreme that we are created in God's image.No way, Jose !Murder, torture, rape, kidnapping, theft, insult, lies, bigotry, hatred, destruction---our stock in trade.But now, the question is, does any one group have a monopoly on these things ?I would say no.Even if your "group" has engaged in a great deal of any of the above activities are you, personally, thereby guilty ?I would say no again.That's why I found Hilden's book pretty irritating.

Born a white-looking, urban, mixed-blood Indian, with Anglo-Quaker, Osage, Nez Perce and maybe Mexican roots, the author spent her youth in California passing as white, but secretly (or internally) feeling a strong Indian identity.A person in this position would be torn; a sensitive person all the more so.When Hilden writes of her personal experiences-all the influences, the traumas, and batterings of outrageous fortune that a mixed-blood Indian might face in postwar America---I find her writing clever and interesting, certainly passionate.How else would I know about such a person if not by reading her book ?I've never met any Indians and (pace Ms. Hilden) I have never wanted to be one, though when I used to go to Western movies, I always rooted for the Indians, having knowledge of my own holocaust.If Amazon browsers are interested in such an autobiography, I could strongly recommend this book.However.....

The first 90 pages of WHEN NICKELS WERE INDIANS is pretty much of angry blast at whites, at the perpetrators of the genocide, at the continuous theft of Indian land, at the misappropriation of Indian culture, at the collectors of Indian bones and Indian folklore, at anthropologists, at the misrepresentation of everything Indian.Well, it's true.Events in (to choose from such a wide field) Armenia, Jewish history, Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Tasmania show that it was hardly unique.However, do you need to read yet another blast at perfidious, lying, stupid ________s (fill in the blank)?A question.Do you want to read a book that sometimes has as many as 18 usages of ironic quotation marks on a single page ? They signal her anger, her sarcastic turning on everyone and nearly everything. I wondered, as I read, who was good in this world, who did the right thing, how should Indians actually represent themselves then, which authors wrote anything worthwhile, what is the right role for Indians, for minorities in general?I did not learn the answer.I did learn that the author was angry about a lot of things, including past mistreatments, misunderstandings, male sexism, and overly made-up women.She had a right to be, but is that enough ?Should I start my own autobiography with a 90 page blast against Germans, Russians, Poles, and all the anti-Semites of this world ? (now you can buy "cute" little Jewish "puppets" in "free" Prague.Where the "Jews" have gone is another "question".) Anger gets me nowhere, I come back to my life unchanged.Is hers a message I wanted to spend a number of hours reading carefully ?In the end I felt that it was not. I read it carefully anyway.She's got talent, but anger management might have been wise.

A rich, beautifully written book
Hilden's memoir of growing up mixedblood in LA is a fascinating study of personal experience, images of Indian people in dominant white culture (the stuff on actor Jay Silverheels [Tonto] is especially compelling),AIM, andNative studies (and Native people) in the academy.Hilden's narrative isengaging, even riveting at times. This book is sad and funny. It reads likea good novel.

A rich, beautifully written book
Hilden's memoir of growing up mixedblood in LA is a fascinating study of personal experience, images of Indian people in dominant white culture (the stuff on actor Jay Silverheels [Tonto] is especially compelling),AIM, andNative studies (and Native people) in the academy.Hilden's narrative isengaging, even riveting at times. This book is sad and funny. It reads likea good novel.

wonderful
An astonishingly brave and courageous memoir that left me in an amazement of admiration. Patricia Hilden is certainly the most brilliant Native American theorist in the world today. As a white woman, I am simply in awethat such incredibly insightful work is being accomplished in spite ofeurocentric campuses and conservative white males. This is a truly greatbook. ... Read more

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From warrior women to female deities who control the cycle of life, female characters in Native American literature exhibit a social and spiritual empowerment that is quite different from the average Pocahontas we are used to seeing in mainstream literature. This work argues that a tribal construct of gender relations, where the relationship between male and female roles is complementary rather than hierarchical, accounts for the existence of these empowered female characters in Native American literature. Focusing on the work of four of the twentieth century's most famous Native American authors, Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, Hollrah suggests that it is important to evaluate Native American literary female characters in a cultural paradigm that is less Euro-American and more compatible to the complementarity of Native American culture. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Journal of African American History, published by Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1050 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African American and Native American Literatures.(Book Review)
Author: Lamont DeHaven King
Publication: The Journal of African American History (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc.
Volume: 89Issue: 4Page: 362(2)

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This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on May 1, 1997. The length of the article is 5010 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Native American folklorist John Bierhorst and his wife, children's literature book designer Jane Byers Bierhorst, have been bringing high-quality retellings of traditional stories to young readers for nearly three decades. Bierhorst's books include "The Fire Plume" and "Four Masterworks."

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Title: "They shall not wither": John Bierhorst's quiet crusade for Native American literature. (includes related article on Mary Okheena's illustrations for Bierhorst's 'The Dancing Fox')
Author: Barbara Bader
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1997
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: v73Issue: n3Page: p268(14)

Article Type: Biography

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AWSOME book
great book. beautifully good. short and sweet ... Read more