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Off the Reservation by Paula Gunn Allen5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Each one also provides a story and a window into a culture that we can and should learn from. indigenous literature and life, look to these nine contemporary writers who have defined the genre - authors whose work should be canonized and taught. Each one takes on race, justice, violence, poverty, alcoholism, family, tradition and survival, the lifeblood of experience both on and off the reservation. The controversially named " Native American Renaissance" yieled a new generation of writers illuminating Native American realities that had until then been often overlooked.Īmong the Twains and Morrisons we should also be adding the Silkos and the Momadays. If you want to get a true taste for U.S. That changed in the 1960s and 1970s, when indigenous writers began receiving attention in non-Native spaces. Native American groups have been telling stories for generations upon generations, but the rich oral tradition of the culture means that for centuries many of those stories were not written down. Among the list of American literary greats is a striking omission: the presence of Native American writers. ![]() High school reading lists are filled with iconic American writers - Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Mark Twain. ![]()
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