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A poetic retelling of the events of Nov. 29, 1864, the day a Colorado militia unit attacked a peaceful encampment of Cheyennes and killed almost 200 men, women, and children. The massacre defined the history of the West by ensuring that there could be no peace between white settlers and Plains Indians. Cutler sticks to historical fact, re-creating the testimony of the soldiers involved, and also offers the voices of the Cheyennes, which were not recorded by historical documents. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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This first book-length critical analysis of the full range of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery. In his introduction, Louis Owens places the novels in context by considering their relationships to traditional American Indian oral literature as well as their differences from mainstream Euroamerican literature. In the following chapters he looks at the novels of John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, John Joseph Mathews, D’Arcy McNickle, N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, and Gerald Vizenor.
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