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| Preface | xvi | |||||||||||
| Acknowledgments | xviii | |||||||||||
| Writing "The Red Woman's America": An Introduction to Writing by Earlier Native American Women | 1 | |||||||||||
| Traditional Narratives and Songs | 13 | |||||||||||
| Narratives | ||||||||||||
| [The Woman Who Fell From the Sky] (Iroquois) (Converse, 1908) | 14 | |||||||||||
| Kana ti and Selu: The Origin of Game and Corn (Cherokee) (Mooney, 1900) | 15 | |||||||||||
| [The Moon] (Cherokee) (Mooney, 1900) | 17 | |||||||||||
| Nun yunu wi, The Stone Man (Cherokee) (Mooney, 1900) | 17 | |||||||||||
| The Huhu Gets Married (Cherokee) (Mooney, 1900) | 18 | |||||||||||
| [Changing Woman and White Shell Woman] (Navajo) (Matthews, 1897) | 19 | |||||||||||
| The Girl-with-Spots-on-Her-Face (Musquakie) (Owen, 1904) | 20 | |||||||||||
| The Bear-Maiden: An Ojibwa Folk-Tale from Lac Courte Oreille Reservation, Wisconsin (Ojibwa) (Jenks, 1902) | 20 | |||||||||||
| Songs | ||||||||||||
| From Chippewa Music Love-Charm Songs and Love Songs (Densmore, 1910) | 22 | |||||||||||
| From Music of Acoma, Isleta, Cochiti, and Zuni Pueblos (Densmore, 1957) | 23 | |||||||||||
| Nancy Ward (Nan-ye-hi; Cherokee, c. 1738-c. 1822). and Cherokee Women | 26 | |||||||||||
| [Speech to the US Treaty Commissioners] (Ward, 1781) | 27 | |||||||||||
| [Speech to the US Treaty Commissioners] (Ward, 1785) | 28 | |||||||||||
| Cherokee Indian Women to President Franklin (1787) | 28 | |||||||||||
| [Petition to the Cherokee National Council] (Cherokee Women and Ward, May 2, 1817) | 29 | |||||||||||
| [Petition to the Cherokee National Council] (Cherokee Women and Ward, June 30, 1818) | 29 | |||||||||||
| [Petition to the Cherokee National Council] (Cherokee Women, c. October, 1821; from the Cherokee Phoenix, 1831) | 30 | |||||||||||
| Mary Jemison (Degiwene's, Two Falling Voices; Seneca, c. 1743-1833 | 31 | |||||||||||
| From A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824) | ||||||||||||
| Author's Preface [James E. Seaver] | 32 | |||||||||||
| Author's Introduction [James E. Seaver] | 34 | |||||||||||
| Chapter 1 | [Parents and Early Childhood] | 36 | ||||||||||
| Chapter 2 | [Education; Captivity; Mother's Farewell Address] | 38 | ||||||||||
| Chapter 3 | [Adoption by Two Seneca Sisters; First Marriage] | 42 | ||||||||||
| Chapter 4 | [White and Indian Women; Family Life] | 46 | ||||||||||
| Chapter 6 | [Revolution; Morals of the Indians] | 49 | ||||||||||
| Chapter 9 | [Landowner] | 51 | ||||||||||
| Chapter 10 | [Spiritous Liquors among the Seneca; Fratricide] | 53 | ||||||||||
| Chapter 16 | [Conclusion] | 55 | ||||||||||
| Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bame-wa-wa-ge-zhik-a-quay, Woman of the Stars Rushing Through the Sky; Ojibwe, 1800-1841) | 57 | |||||||||||
| Poetry | ||||||||||||
| From The Literary Voyager or Muzzeniegun | 58 | |||||||||||
| Resignation [1826] | 58 | |||||||||||
| To Sisters on a Walk in the Garden, After a Shower [1826] | 59 | |||||||||||
| Lines To a Friend Asleep [1827] | 59 | |||||||||||
| Lines Written Under Affliction [1827] | 60 | |||||||||||
| Lines Written Under Severe Pain and Sickness [1827] | 60 | |||||||||||
| Otagamiad [1827] | 60 | |||||||||||
| Invocation To My Maternal Grandfather On Hearing His Descent from Chippewa Ancestors Misrepresented [1827] | 63 | |||||||||||
| Sonner [1827] | 64 | |||||||||||
| To My Ever Beloved and Lamented Son, William Henry [1827] | 64 | |||||||||||
| Traditional Narratives | ||||||||||||
| The Origin of the Robin An Oral Allegory [1827] | 66 | |||||||||||
| Moowis The Indian Coquette A Chippewa Legend [1827] | 67 | |||||||||||
| The Forsaken Brother A Chippewa Tale [1827] | 67 | |||||||||||
| Origin of the Miscodeed Or the Maid of Taquimenon [1827] | 69 | |||||||||||
| Lucy Lowrey Hoyt Keys (Wahnenauhi, Over-Therf-They-Just-Arrived-With-It | ||||||||||||
| Cherokee, 1831-1912) | 71 | |||||||||||
| Historical Sketches of the Cherokees, Together with Some of Their Customs, Traditions, and Superstitions (1889) | 72 | |||||||||||
| Narcissa Owen (Cherokee, 1831-1911) | 90 | |||||||||||
| From Memoirs of Narcissa Owen: 1831-1907 (1907) | ||||||||||||
| @from Chapter I: Some Old Cherokee Legends and Beliefs | ||||||||||||
| [The Founding of the Cherokee Nation] | 92 | |||||||||||
| A Cherokee Rheumatism Cure | 93 | |||||||||||
| Cherokee Cure for Snake Bite | 94 | |||||||||||
| @from Chapter II: The First Migration to the Indian Territory | ||||||||||||
| [US Government Treachery and the Trail of Tears] | 94 | |||||||||||
| @from Chapter III: Concerning my Father, Thomas Chisholm, and President | ||||||||||||
| Thomas Jefferson | ||||||||||||
| [My Father] | 96 | |||||||||||
| The Jefferson Medal | 98 | |||||||||||
| @from Chapter IV: Some Recollections of My Early Life | ||||||||||||
| [My Education; Desperate Characters Infesting the Western Country] | 98 | |||||||||||
| @from Chapter V: Memories of Clinch River and Lynchburg | ||||||||||||
| Life on Clinch River, at Evan's Bridge | 100 | |||||||||||
| Making Confederate Uniforms | 102 | |||||||||||
| The King Story | 104 | |||||||||||
| @from Chapter VI: The Author as Mother and Teacher - Vicissitudes | ||||||||||||
| [Return to the Cherokee Nation; Seminary Experiences] | 105 | |||||||||||
| A New Variety of Burglar | 107 | |||||||||||
| @from Chapter IX: Being a Miscellaneous Chapter Concerning Many Persons and Things | ||||||||||||
| @from Home at the Metropolitan | 108 | |||||||||||
| @from Some Family Data | 108 | |||||||||||
| @from Some Things I Have Enjoyed | 108 | |||||||||||
| Buffalo Bird Woman (Waheenee, Maxidiwiac; Hidatsa, c. 1839-1932) | 110 | |||||||||||
| Autobiography, As Told to Gilbert L. Wilson, From Field Notes by Wilson, 1906-1929 | ||||||||||||
| Origin of the Hidatsas (vol. 13, 1913) | 111 | |||||||||||
| Birth and Childhood (vol. 9, 1910) | 113 | |||||||||||
| How Maxidiwiac Got Her Name (vol. 16, 1914) | 114 | |||||||||||
| A Daughter's Training (vol. 18, 1915) | 115 | |||||||||||
| Corn Songs (vol. 18, 1915) | 116 | |||||||||||
| Goodbird is Nearly Drowned (vol. 18, 1915) | 117 | |||||||||||
| Punishment of Children, of Adults; Ideas of Crime (vol. 10, 1911) | 117 | |||||||||||
| June Berry (vol. 20, 1916) | 118 | |||||||||||
| Courtship and Marriage (vol. 9, 1910/1912) | 120 | |||||||||||
| Honor Marks of Women (vol. 11, 1912) | 122 | |||||||||||
| Children's Tales (vol. 10, 1911) | 122 | |||||||||||
| Story of Itsikamahidish and the Wild Potato (vol. 16, 1914) | 126 | |||||||||||
| How the Prairie Chicken Was Made (vol. 18, 1915) | 127 | |||||||||||
| Indian Life in Former Days Compared with the Present Life (vol. 22, 1918) | 128 | |||||||||||
| Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony, Shell Flower; Paiute, c. 1844-1891) | 129 | |||||||||||
| From Life Among the Piutes (1883) | ||||||||||||
| Editor's Preface [Mary Mann] | 131 | |||||||||||
| Chapter I | First Meeting of Piutes and Whites | 131 | ||||||||||
| Chapter II | Domestic and Social Moralities | 146 | ||||||||||
| Chapter III | Wars and Their Causes | 151 | ||||||||||
| Chapter IV | Captain Truckee's Death | 154 | ||||||||||
| Chapter V | Reservation of Pyramid and Muddy Lakes | 157 | ||||||||||
| Susette LaFieschf [Tibbies] (Inshta Theamba, Bright Eyes; Omaha, 1854-1903) | 169 | |||||||||||
| An Indian Woman's Letter (The Southern Workman, April, 1879) | 170 | |||||||||||
| Letter to St. Nicholas (1880) | 171 | |||||||||||
| From Testimony before the US Senate on the Removal of the Ponca Indians (1880) | 172 | |||||||||||
| Introduction to The Ponca Chiefs, by Thomas H. Tibbles (1880) | 174 | |||||||||||
| Nedawi (An Indian Story from Real Life) (St. Nicholas, January, 1881) | 174 | |||||||||||
| Introduction to Ploughed Under: The Story of an Indian Chief, Told by Himself, by William Justin Harsha (1881) | 179 | |||||||||||
| Omaha Legends and Tent-Stories (Wide Awake, June, 1883) | 181 | |||||||||||
| Annette Leevier (Ojibwe, 1856-?) | 187 | |||||||||||
| Psychic Experiences of an Indian Princess, Daughter of Chief Tommyhawk (1920) | ||||||||||||
| To Sitting Bull - The Sioux Brave | 188 | |||||||||||
| Foreword | 189 | |||||||||||
| Part I | 189 | |||||||||||
| Healing | 197 | |||||||||||
| Trailing | 198 | |||||||||||
| Titanic Prophecy | 199 | |||||||||||
| Soul Flight | 199 | |||||||||||
| Waiting | 200 | |||||||||||
| Tiffin Prophecy | 201 | |||||||||||
| Tribute from Chief Tommyhawk | 203 | |||||||||||
| Obsession and Spirit Conditions | 203 | |||||||||||
| Obsession | 204 | |||||||||||
| Conclusion | 206 | |||||||||||
| E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake, Double Wampum; Mohawk, 1861-1913) | 207 | |||||||||||
| Poetry | ||||||||||||
| From Flint and Feather (1912) | ||||||||||||
| Canada (Acrostic) | 209 | |||||||||||
| The Cattle Thief | 209 | |||||||||||
| The Corn Husker | 210 | |||||||||||
| Erie Waters | 211 | |||||||||||
| The Idlers | 211 | |||||||||||
| In the Shadows | 212 | |||||||||||
| The Indian Corn Planter | 214 | |||||||||||
| Joe An Etching | 214 | |||||||||||
| Low Tide at St. Andrews (New Brunswick) | 215 | |||||||||||
| Lullaby of the Iroquois | 215 | |||||||||||
| Marshlands | 216 | |||||||||||
| Penseroso | 216 | |||||||||||
| The Quill Worker | 217 | |||||||||||
| Shadow River Muskoka | 217 | |||||||||||
| Thistle-Down | 218 | |||||||||||
| Under Canvas In Muskoka | 219 | |||||||||||
| The Wolf | 219 | |||||||||||
| Wolverine | 220 | |||||||||||
| From American Canoe Club Year Book (1893) | ||||||||||||
| The Portage | 222 | |||||||||||
| Fiction and Prose Nonfiction | ||||||||||||
| From The Moccasin Maker (1913) | ||||||||||||
| Catharine of the "Crow's Nest" | 222 | |||||||||||
| The Envoy Extraordinary | 228 | |||||||||||
| As It Was in the Beginning | 232 | |||||||||||
| From The Shagganappi (1913) | ||||||||||||
| Little Wolf-Willow | 236 | |||||||||||
| Sons of Savages | 241 | |||||||||||
| From Legends of Vancouver (1922) | ||||||||||||
| The Lost Salmon-Run | 242 | |||||||||||
| The Sea-Serpent | 245 | |||||||||||
| Mabel Washbourne Anderson (Cherokee, 1863-1949) | 248 | |||||||||||
| Nowita, the Sweet Singer--A Romantic Tradition of Spavinaw, Indian Territory (Twin Territories, January, 1903) | 249 | |||||||||||
| Joe Jamison's Sacrifice (Sturm's, January, 1906) | 255 | |||||||||||
| Sophia Alice Callahan (Muscogee/Creek, 1868-1894) | 259 | |||||||||||
| From Wynema, A Child of the Forest (1891) | ||||||||||||
| [Dedication] | 260 | |||||||||||
| Publisher's Preface | 260 | |||||||||||
| Chapter I | Introductory | 261 | ||||||||||
| Chapter II | The School | 263 | ||||||||||
| Chapter III | Some Indian Dishes | 264 | ||||||||||
| Chapter VI | An Indian Burial | 265 | ||||||||||
| Chapter VII | A Strange Ceremony | 267 | ||||||||||
| Chapter IX | Some Changes | 268 | ||||||||||
| Chapter XI | In the Old Home | 268 | ||||||||||
| Chapter XII | A Conservative | 270 | ||||||||||
| Chapter XIII | Shall We Allot? | 271 | ||||||||||
| Chapter XIV | More Concerning Allotments | 273 | ||||||||||
| Fox Indian Woman (Mesquakie/Fox, fl. 1918)/Truman Michelson | 275 | |||||||||||
| The Autobiography of a Fox Indian Woman (1918) (with Dalottiwa, Horace Poweshiek, and Truman Michelson) | 276 | |||||||||||
| Owl Woman (Juana Manwell; Papago, fl. 1880)/Frances Densmore (1867-1957) | 289 | |||||||||||
| From Papago Music (1929) | ||||||||||||
| Songs for Treating Sickness, Sung during the Four Parts of the Night | 290 | |||||||||||
| Parts One and Two: Beginning Songs and Songs Sung before Midnight | 290 | |||||||||||
| No. 72 "Brown Owls" | 290 | |||||||||||
| No. 73 "In the Blue Night" | 290 | |||||||||||
| No. 74 "The Owl Feather" | 290 | |||||||||||
| No. 75 "They Come Hooting" | 290 | |||||||||||
| No. 76 "In the Dark I Enter" | 291 | |||||||||||
| No. 77 "His Heart is Almost Covered with Night" | 291 | |||||||||||
| No. 78 "I See Spirit-Tufts of White Feathers" | 291 | |||||||||||
| No. 79 "Yonder Lies the Spirit Land" | 291 | |||||||||||
| NN/NT ["Sadly I was treated, sadly I was treated"] | 291 | |||||||||||
| No. 80 "Song of a Spirit" | 291 | |||||||||||
| No. 81 "We Will Join Them" | 291 | |||||||||||
| No. 82 "My Feathers" | 292 | |||||||||||
| No. 83 "The Women are Singing" | 292 | |||||||||||
| NN/NT ["In the great night my heart will go out"] | 292 | |||||||||||
| NN/NT ["On the west side they are singing, the women hear it"] | 292 | |||||||||||
| No. 84 "I Am Going to See the Land" | 292 | |||||||||||
| No. 85 "I Run Toward Ashes Hill" | 292 | |||||||||||
| No. 86 "The Waters of the Spirits" | 292 | |||||||||||
| Parts Three and Four: Songs Sung between Midnight and Early Morning | 292 | |||||||||||
| No. 87 "There Will I See the Dawn" | 292 | |||||||||||
| No. 88 "I Run Toward the East" | 293 | |||||||||||
| No. 89 "I Die Here" | 293 | |||||||||||
| No. 90 "I Could See the Daylight Coming" | 293 | |||||||||||
| No. 91 "The Dawn Approaches" | 293 | |||||||||||
| No. 92 "The Owl Feather is Looking for the Dawn" | 293 | |||||||||||
| No. 93 "The Morning Star" | 293 | |||||||||||
No. 94 "Song of a Medicine Woman on
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Weston Jill reviewed Native American women's writing, c. 1800-1924 on November 29, 2020 Native American women's writing
Found the read for tomorrow's flight to Austin. My Potawatomie spirit could use some refueling as well... Read a few entries and I am glad I did, but found it left me a bit sad and thinking about the past. I may have to put this one away for a rainy day at home and not on a plane for business.
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