Does a non-Indian have the authority to do so?

I’m not sure if this is entirely detrimental and unavoidable.

she was not aware of the historical significance her words carried, nor did she transfer contextual knowledge to the students in my class.

an energetic woman whose legs were wrapped in bright, patterned yoga pants.

reiterate

. But don’t worry,

. I think the best and most female empowering part of the entire courtship between Winkfield and Princess Unca is when she forgoes her entire belief system and religion to conform to Winkfield’s

heads straight into daytime soap opera. For example,

I told them it was the Sabbath day, and desired them to let me rest

but she would not give me a taste.

I carried only my knitting work

of my wound,

wait I say on the Lord.”

He answered, yes.

I cannot but take notice how at another time I could not bear to be in the room where any dead person was, but now the case is changed; I must and could lie down by my dead babe, side by side all the night after.

; my child being even ready to depart this sorrowful world,

having nothing to revive the body

, but as they carried him, and as he took oaken leaves and laid to his wound, and through the blessing of God he was able to travel again.

I then remembered how careless I had been of God’s holy time; how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evilly I had walked in God’s sight; which lay so close unto my spirit, that it was easy for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life and cast me out of His presence forever. Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me; and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other

Oh, I may see the wonderful power of God, that my Spirit did not utterly sink under my affliction: still the Lord upheld me with His gracious and merciful spirit, and we were both alive to see the light of the next morning.

God was with me

I must turn my back upon the town, and travel with them into the vast and desolate wilderness

If not approached with this awareness, these diverse and complex cultures and literatures can be made to appear cute, childish, one-dimensional, and boring.

"Indians" are most familiar and recognizable when ahorse and inarticulate

. A course which attempts to unite "Native American literature's greatest hits" tends to become a vain search for commonalities which logically should not be there.

e, Native American societies had little pre-contact experi- ence in the activity known as "w

Perhaps they were a new species of ape; perhaps manifested devils . . . but certainly not souls!

Early-arriving Euro- peans were hosted and fed and sheltered and studied; they were regarded as neither gods nor demons, and their appearance probably did not seem more than a mildly interesting event to the ordinary Native American citizen.

mmunity. Societal diversity was accepted, tolerated, and assumed, and each group took pride in its own distinctive features, including its own oral (literary) tra

Indian men, with bows and arrows, were wading waist deep amid the wild rice. Near by, within their wigwams, the wives were roasting wild duck and making down pillows.

This was very wrong, yet Iktomi did it, for his wit was not wisdom.

Iktomi felt the cold night air upon his bare neck and shoulders.

"Now, grandfather, accept my offering; 'tis all I have," said Iktomi as he spread his half-worn blanket upon Inyan's cold shoulders.

"Oh! I'll go to Inyan, the great-grand- father, and pray for food!" he exclaimed.