Contemporary American Indian History

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.01.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Teaching Situation and Rationale
  2. Objectives
  3. The Unit
  4. American Indian History Over Time: The Animating Concerns of Three Texts
  5. Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Appendix
  8. Resources
  9. Notes

Rewriting the Narrative of American History: American Indian Identity and the Process of Recovery

Jo Ann Flory

Published September 2016

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Resources

Bibliography

Ballard, Charles G. "The Theme of the Helping Hand in Winter in the Blood." Melus 17, no. 1 (1991): 63.

Bevis, William. "Native American Novels: Homing In." In Recovering the Word: Essays

on Native American Literature, edited by Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, 580-621. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1987.

Debo, Angie. And Still the Waters Run: the Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Debo, Angie. Tulsa: From Creek Town to Oil Capital. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1943.

Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York, NY: Macmillan Company, 1969.

Eisenstein, Paul. “Finding lost generations: recovering omitted history in ‘Winter in the     Blood.'(Intertextualities).” Melus 19.3 (1994): 3+. Literature Resources from Gale. Web 25 Apr. 2011.

Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo. USA: PBS Video, 2010. DVD

Larson, Sidner J. "Colonization as Subtext in James Welch's Winter in the Blood." The American Indian Quarterly 29, no. 1 (2005): 274-80.

Larson, Sidner J. "Multiple Perspectivism in James Welch's Winter in the Blood and The

Death of Jim Loney." The American Indian Quarterly 31, no. 4 (2007): 513-33.

Nelson, Joshua B. "Humor Is My Green Card. A Conversation With Sherman Alexie."

World Literature Today, July 2010. Accessed July 16, 2016. www.worldliteraturetoday.org.

Penney, David W. "Why Horace Poolaw's Indians Won't Vanish." In For a Love of His

People, edited by Nancy M. Mithlo, 57-63. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.

"Ryan Red Corn Explains "Smiling Indians"" Indian Country Today Media

Network.com. March 7, 2011. Accessed July 15, 2016. http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com.

Sands, Kathleen Mullen, and James Welch. "Closing the Distance: Critic, Reader and the

Works of James Welch." Melus 14, no. 2 (1987): 73.

Teuton, Sean. “Placing the Ancestors: Postmodernism, ‘Realism’ and American Identity in

James Welch’s Winter in the Blood”. American Indian Quarterly: 25.4 

Velie, Alan R. "Winter in the Blood: Welch and the Comic Novel." In Four American

Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor, 91-103. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.

Welch, James. Winter in the Blood. New York, 1981.

Wilkinson, Charles F. Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations. New York: Norton, 2005.

Classroom Resources

Foerster, Jennifer Elise. Leaving Tulsa. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013.

For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw, edited by Nancy M.

Mithlo, 57-63. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.

"Indian-Pioneer Papers Collection." Indian-Pioneer Papers Collection. Accessed July 21,

2016. https://digital.libraries.ou.edu/whc/pioneer/.

InPhotomation. "Photo Story 3 Tutorial." YouTube. 2008. Accessed August 05, 2016.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0oH9qE9qEY.

Kirk1287. "Jay Z - Where I'm From." YouTube. 2012. Accessed August 05, 2016.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdGJAM08ia0.

"Search The Collection." Search The Collection. Accessed July 21, 2016.

http://artgallery.yale.edu/collection/search/edward s curtis.

Sterlz501. "Smiling Indians." YouTube. 2011. Accessed August 05, 2016.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga98brEf1AU.

"Welcome to Our Online Collections Database!" Tulsa Historical Society: Online

Collections. Accessed July 21, 2016. http://tulsahistory.pastperfectonline.com/.

"Where I'm From, a Poem by George Ella Lyon, Writer and Teacher." Where I'm From, a

Poem by George Ella Lyon, Writer and Teacher. Accessed August 05, 2016. http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html.

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