Nov. 1st introduction- historical overview

Nov. 8th Christopher Columbus, “Letter to Luis De Santangel”

Robert Frost, inaugural poem J.F.K

Sherman Alexie “Postcards to Columbus”

Nov. 15th Robert Dale Parker, The Invention of Native American Literature, chapter I

 Louise Erdrich, “Captivity”

Nov. 22nd John Joseph Mathews, Sundown

 Louis Owens, Introduction to Other Destinies

Nov. 29th Sundown – continued

 Simon Ortiz, “Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity”

Dec 6th  Sundown - continued

Dec 13th N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

Arlene A. Elder, “Dancing the Page” 

Dec. 20th Rainy Mountain – continued

Eric Cheyfitz, “Balancing the Earth”

Dec. 27th Leslie Marmon Silko, “Lullaby”

Jan 3rd “Lullaby”- continued

Sherman Alexie, “The Game Between the Jews and the Indians is Tied”

Jan 10th Louise Erdrich, “St. Marie”

Jan 17th  Gerald Vizenor, “China Browne”

Jan 24th concluding remarks

Primary texts:

Alexie Sherman, “Postcards to Columbus,” Old Shirts & New Skins, Anaheim: Pace Publication

            Arts, 1993.

---“The Game Between the Jews and the Indians is Tied Going Into the Bottom of the Ninth inning,” First Indian on the Moon, Hanging Loose P., 1993.

Cheyfitz Eric, “Balancing the Earth: Native American Philosophies and the Environmental

 Crisis,” Arizona Quarterly 65.3 2009.

Columbus Christopher, from “Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage (February

 15, 1493), in Nina Baym (Ed.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter

Sixth Edition, New York: Norton 2003.

Elder Arlene A., “Dancing the Page: Orature in N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy

 Mountain,” Narrative 7.3, 1999, 272-288.

Erdrich Louise, “Captivity,” Original Fire: Selected and New Poems, 2003.

--- “Saint Marie,” Love Medicine, Harper Perennial, 1993.

Frost Robert, “The Gift Outright,” The Poetry of Robert Frost, 1923.

Mathews John Joseph. Sundown, 1934, Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1988.

Momaday, N. Scott, The Way to Rainy Mountain, U of New Mexico P, 1976.

Ortiz Simon J., “Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism,” in:

            John L. Purdy and James Ruppert (eds.), Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native

            American Literature. NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001, 120-25. 

Owens Louis, Other Destinies: understanding the American Indian Novel, Norman: U of

 Oklahoma P, 1994, 3-31.

Parker Robert Dale, The Invention of Native American Literature, Ithaca: Cornell U P, 2003.

Silko Leslie Marmon, “Lullaby,” Storyteller, New York: Arcade Publishing, 1981.

Vizenor Gerald, “China Browne,” in Craig Lesley (ed.), Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native

            American Short Stories, New York: Dell, 1991, 294-303. 

Recommended reading:

Ben-Zvi Yael, “Up and Down With Mary Rowlandson: Erdrich’s and Alexie’s versions of

            “Captivity”,” Studies in American Indian Literatures, 24.4 2012: 21-46. 

Bonnin Gertrude, Charles H. Fabens, Matthew K. Sniffen, Oklahoma’s Poor Rich Indians: An

Orgy of Graft and Exploitation of the Five Civilized Tribes – Legalized Robbery, Philadelphia: Office of the Indian Rights Association,1924.       

Byrd Jodi A., The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism, U of Minnesota P, 2011.

Cheyfitz Eric, “The (Post) Colonial Construction of Indian Country: US American Indian

Literatures and Federal Indian Law”, The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945, Eric Cheyfitz (ed.),  New York: Columbia U P, 2006.

Deloria Vine Jr. and Clifford M. Lytle, The Nations Within: The Past and Future of American

            Indian Sovereignty, New Haven: Yale U P,1998.

Dippie Brian W., The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and US Indian Policy, Kansas: The

            U P of Kansas, 1982.

Etter Carrie, “Dialectic to Dialogic: Negotiating Bicultural Heritage in Sherman Alexie’s

            Sonnets,” in: Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson (ed), Telling the Stories: Essays on American

            Indian Literatures and Cultures. 2001, 143-151.

Hall Susan, “Re-visioning Captivity: Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie Respond to Mary

            Rowlandson’s Narrative,” North Dakota Quarterly 2011 78.1: 46-69.

Harmon Alexandra, Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American

            History, U of North Carolina P, 2013.

Harring Sidney L., Crow Dog’s Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law and the United

 States Law in the Nineteenth century, Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1994.

Hunter Carol, “The Historical Context of John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown,” MELUS 9.1

            (1982): 61-73.

Kalter Susan,“John Joseph Mathwes’s Reverse Ethnography,” Studies in American Indian

             Literatures 14.1 (2002): 26-50.

Keresztesi, Rita, Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism Between the World Wars,

            Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2005.           

Krupat Arnold, Ethno- Criticism: Ethnography, History, Literature. Berkeley: U of California P,

 1992. 

--- Red Matters: Native American studies, U of Pennsylvania P, 2002.

Lutenski Emily, “Tribes of Men: John Joseph Mathews and Indian Internationalism,” Studies in

            American Indian Literatures, 24.2 2012: 39-64.

Osteen Mark, Autism and Representation, New York: Routledge, 2007.

Prampolini Gaetano, “American Indian Novels of the 1930s: John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown

            and D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded,” Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of

Native North American Literatures, Elvira Pulitano (ed.), Lincoln: U of Nebraska P,

2007: 65-88. 

Rifkin Mark, “The Duration of the Land: The Queerness of Spacetime in Sundown,” Studies in

            American Indian Literatures, 27.1 2015: 33-69.

Schedler Christopher, “Formulating a Native American Modernism in John Joseph Mathews’s

            Sundown,” Arizona Quarterly 55. 1(1999):127-149.

Snyder Michael, “’He Certainly didn’t Want Anyone to Know He Was Queer’: Chal Windzer’s

            Sexuality in John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown,” Studies in American Indian Literatures

            20.1(2008): 27-54. 

Treuer David, Native American Fiction, A User’s Manual, Graywolf P, 2006.

Warrior Robert Allen,  Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions.

 Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. 

Zitkala-Sa, American Indian Stories, 1921, Washington: Dover, 2009.