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EN492 Native American Literature

This guide will help students find and locate databases, articles, and texts related to the English capstone course EN492.

Native American Oral Literature

Below is a selected list of readings related to Native American oral history

Living Sideways: Social Themes and Social Relationships in Native American Trickster Tales
Imagination, Conversation, and Trickster Discourse: Negotiating an Approach to Native American Literary Culture
Talking to the Animals and Taking Out the Trash: the Functions of Native American Literature
Rough Knowledge and Radical Understanding: Sacred Silence in American Indian Literatures
They Go Along Singing: Reconstructing the Hopi Past from Ritual Metaphors in Song and Image
Teaching Early Native American Poetry
Jr. High/Middle School: "Old Man Coyote Makes the World": Using Native American Tales
Teaching American Indian Studies to Reflect American Indian Ways of Knowing and to Interrupt Cycles of Genocide