Research Catalog

Title

Nothing but the truth : an anthology of Native American literature / John Purdy, James Ruppert.

Publication

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Purdy, John.
• Ruppert, James, 1947-
• Purdy, John Lloyd

Description

xv, 640 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

An anthology that features both classic and contemporary Native American literatures, Nothing But the Truth is a healthy collection of the best works of Native American literature. The pieces of literature selected for this anthology are core texts used in classrooms and are conducive to discussion in the classroom. Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama are included as well as some theoretical discussion and introductions by various scholars and teachers of the literature. --From cover.

Subjects

• Literature
• Literary collections
• Indians of North America > Literary collections
• American literature > Indian authors

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Literary collections.
• Literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Nonfiction. Postmodernism, Native American literature, and the real : the Silko-Erdrich Controversy / Susan Pérez Castillo -- The American Indian fiction writers : cosmopolitanism, nationalism, the third world, and First Nation sovereignty / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- Indian humor / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- The Ghost Dance War / Charles Eastman Ohiyesa -- The sacred hoop : a contemporary perspective / Paula Gunn Allen -- The man made of word / N. Scott Momaday -- Decolonializing criticism : reading dialectics and dialogics in Native American literatures / David L. Moore -- Towards a national Indian literature : cultural authenticity in nationalism / Simon J. Ortiz -- History, myth, and identity among Osages and other peoples / Carter Revard -- The woman who loved a snake : orality in Mabel McKay's stories / Greg Sarris -- Language and literature from a Pueblo perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko -- An old-time Indian attack conducted in two parts : Part one, imitation "Indian" poems/Part two, Gary Snyder's Turtle Island -- Introduction : only the beginning / Brian Swann.
• Fiction. The approximate size of my favorite tumor ; This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- Swimming upstream / Beth Brant -- A good chance ; The power of horses / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- The red convertible / Louise Erdrich -- Unfinished business / Eric Gansworth -- Aunt Parnetta's electric blisters / Diane Glancy -- Deer woman / Paula Gunn Allen -- Sleeping in rain / Gordon Henry -- Aunt Moon's young man / Linda Hogan -- As it was in the beginning / Pauline E. Johnson -- Borders ; A seat in the garden / Thomas King -- The hawk is hungry / D'Arcy McNickle -- Veteran's dance / Jim Northrup -- The killing of a state cop / Simon J. Ortiz -- Blessed sunshine / Louis Owens -- Report to the nation : repossessing Europe / Carter Revard -- How I got to be queen / Greg Sarris -- The man to send rain clouds ; Tony's story ; Yellow woman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The disposal of Mary Joe's children / Mary TallMountain -- All the colors of sunset / Luci Tapahonso -- The warriors / Anna Lee Walters -- The soft-hearted Sioux / Zitkala-Sa.
• Poetry. The business of fancydancing ; Capital punishment ; Defending Walt Whitman ; The exaggeration of despair ; How to write the great American Indian novel ; Crazy Horse speaks / Sherman Alexie -- Dear world ; Kopis'taya, a gathering of spirits ; Soundings / Paula Gunn Allen -- Living history ; Rewriting your life ; Rituals : yours, and mine ; Where was I that day / Kimberly Blaeser -- Bear : a totem dance as seen by Raven ; The old man's lazy ; Rattle ; To-ta Ti-om ; Turtle ; Yellowjacket ; Drum ; Reflections on milkweed / Peter Blue Cloud -- Above the line ; Blessing the waters ; Copal, red blood : Chiapas, 1998 / Joseph Bruchac -- Today was a bad day like TB / Chrystos -- Salmon egg puller, $2.15 an hour / Nora Dauenhaur -- Captivity ; Indian boarding school : the runaways ; Jacklight ; Old man Potchikoo ; Dear John Wayne ; Turtle Mountain Reservation / Louise Erdrich -- She had some horses ; Transformations ; I give you back ; Call it fear ; Eagle poem ; The woman hanging from the thirteenth floor window ; Grace ; The woman who fell from the sky / Joy Harjo -- Blessing ; Song for my name ; Bamboo ; Celebration : birth of a colt ; Drought ; The new apartment, Minneapolis ; The truth is ; Elk song ; Geraniums ; Heritage ; It must be ; Map ; Morning : the world in the lake / Linda Hogan -- Akwesasne ; Legacy ; Sweetgrass ; The tell me I am lost ; Wild strawberry ; Wolf "aunt" / Maurice Kenny -- Who am I / Joyce carlEtta Mandrake -- Angle of geese ; The bear ; At risk ; December 29, 1980 : Wounded Knee Creek ; The colors of night ; The eagle-feather fan / N. Scott Momaday -- Bend in the river ; The creation, according to coyote ; Dry root in a wash ; My father's song ; A story of how a wall stands ; The boy and coyote / Simon J. Ortiz -- And don't be deaf to the singing beyond ; Driving in Oklahoma ; In Kansas ; An eagle nation ; What the eagle fan says ; Wazhazhe grandmother / Carter Revard -- I expected my skin and my blood to ripen ; If I am too brown or too white for you ; Three thousand dollar death song / Wendy Rose -- Indian song : survival ; Untitled ; Untitled, from Ceremony ; Storytelling ; Story from Bear County ; Toe'osh : a Laguna coyote story ; When sun came to Riverwoman / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Good grease ; The last wolf ; There is no word for goodbye ; Matmiya / Mary TallMountain -- Blue horses rush in ; In praise of Texas ; Light a candle ; Raisin eyes / Luci Tapahonso -- Christmas comes to Moccasin Flat ; Surviving ; Thanksgiving at Snake Butte ; Snow country weavers ; Riding the earthboy 40 / James Welch -- Dream of rebirth ; For Heather, entering Kindergarten ; In the longhouse, Oneida Museum ; Black eagle child quarterly / Roberta Hill Whiteman -- The first dimensions of skunk ; Winter of the salamander ; The language of weather ; Morning talking mother ; The significance of a water animal ; Nothing could take away the bear-king's image / Ray Young Bear -- Drama. Harold of Orange : a screenplay / Gerald Vizenor.

ISBN

0130116424 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00027700^

OCLC

• 43662033
• SCSB-11477418

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library