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Download full textCharles, Jim – 1995
American Indian literature deserves a more prominent place in the English language arts curriculum. Oral literature of American Indians includes didactic stories, told to maintain tribal mores and value systems; it also includes humorous and entertaining stories, as well as histories of various American Indian peoples. Anthropologists and…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Autobiographies
Peer reviewedCharles, Jim; Predmore, Richard – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 1996
Describes an approach for team teaching a Native American literatures course that integrates diverse literary critical theories. Using the novel "Winter in the Blood" as an example, a sociocultural critical approach analyzes the "Indianness" of the text and an analysis using objective and formal criteria allows the novel to be…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Influences
