 | The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction Subjects: American prose literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life; Indians of North America -- Historiography; Indians in literature; The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected Native experiences. Robert Warrior traces a history of American Indian nonfiction writing, including Pequot intellectual William Apess's autobiographical works; the Osage Constitution of 1881; accounts of boarding school in the late 1880s; and modern Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's essay OC The Man Made of Words.OCO" |
