This book attempts to show how we might use tribal knowledges as theoretical frameworks for reading Native American texts. Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-158) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: indigenous knowledge as tribal theory -- Pictographs and politics in Marie McLaughlin's Myths and legends of the Sioux: a Dakota storyteller in the Ozan tradition -- Charles Eastman's role in Native American resistance literature: a "real indian" to the Boy Scouts -- Zitkala Ṡa, sentiment, and tioṡpaye: reading Dakota rhetorics of nation and gender -- Ella Deloria's decolonizing role as camp historian in Waterlily: sisters, brothers, and the Hakata relationship -- A gendered future: Wi and Hanwi in contemporary Dakota writing -- Tribal theory travels: Kanien'kehaka poet Maurice Kenny and the gantowisas.
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