Native American writers

immigrants across the globe, the United States has flourished tremendously for the past 100 years. But what we tend to overlook are the millions of unheard voices deep in the plains, those of the non-immigrants, the Native Americans. Rich in their culture and heritage, the Native Americans built a system, and co-existed with the environment, in which they hunted and gathered, and shared amongst one another. Their reign was long, and their territory plenty, but this would only last until the early 1490’s

Who were they? Where are they now? Do they exist?” wonders the writer Sherman Alexie if the Native American reservation school system ever exposed him to the concept of creative writing or writers. In his essay, “The Joy of Reading: Superman and Me,” he describes how notions such as creative writing and reading high-level texts were considered “beyond Indians.” To combat such unwarranted profiling, he reminds young Native Americans of the importance of resisting negative stereotypes. Alexie claims

What It Means to Say Smoke Signals,” the author elucidates the significance of this film by showcasing the uniqueness of its story, creators, and contemporary representation of Native Americans in Hollywood film. Cobb brings to light the idea that this film was not only the first film to be written and directed by Native artists, but that it was the first to exercise the idea of self-definition and cultural sovereignty (207). The paper goes on to compare Smoke Signals to other films such as Powwow

ability to create piece of work beyond the capabilities of an average individual. Moreover, this element changes from writer to writer, due to the external forces and internal forces around them. Therefore, leading an author to have a particular writing style. Sherman Alexie a well acclaimed poet, prose and script writer has a very distinct style. His accurate portrayal of Native American culture, written to a young adult audience, has exemplifies why he has been so influential in today’s society. In

In his collection of short stories titled The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie tells two dozen tales that depict the lives and thoughts that come from living on a Native American reservation. Many of the stories revolve around characters Victor and Thomas. They are two young Native American males that are stylistically opposite forces. They serve as foils to each other and often balance out each other in many stories in the collection. The collection itself is difficult to

Throughout history, Native Americans in early America have been viewed as primitive and violent people. Artwork often depicts them engaging in barbaric behavior such as eating other humans and engaging in violent wars. However, this view of early Native Americans has been created by the works of people belonging to the “civilized world” of early America. Lucy Terry’s poem “Bars Fight” retells the story of when a group of Indians attacked two families that she knew. Terry’s work can be compared to

Sherman Alexie is an American Poet, short story writer, novelist, performer, film writer, most sought-after public speaker. He has grown up in Spokane Indian Reservation, WellPinit, Washington. He has been winner of several awards, fellow ships and honorary degrees. He has abused alcohol in college days and has quit it later and has become sober ever since. He says his success as writer has given him incentive to quit alcohol. “In his short-story and poetry collections, Alexie illuminates the

The Native American culture has a variety of different worldviews compared to other cultural worldviews. They are heavy with their culture and are highly endorsed for it because of its complexity and their dedication towards it. In the fictional novel based on true events, The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo, written and narrated by two-time winner of the Minnesota Book Award, Kent Nerburn, Nerburn is on an adventure to help find peace in Native American elder, Dan’s, life that he has greatly endured

during the time America was fighting for land ownership over the Native Americans, mainly the Sioux. The movie was enjoyable and seemed to be an accurate depiction of the time period and the factors involved on both sides. The idea that a movie can represent two different perspectives that are major point of views in the average American’s history, is absolutely unbelieveable. The point of view of the white soldier and the native american are two complex and differentiated majorities. The movie “Bury

AN INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE Native American literatures embrace the memories of creation stories, the tragic wisdom of native ceremonies, trickster narratives, and the outcome of chance and other occurrences in the most diverse cultures in the world. These distinctive literatures, eminent in both oral performances and in the imagination of written narratives, cannot be discovered in reductive social science translations or altogether understood in the historical constructions of