READINGS
Readings
Voices and Dreams
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar
Saddleback College
Summer 1997
Recommended and required readings for the seminar are listed below
in alphabetical order by author or editor. Where the reading is
covered by the Annotated Bibliography, a
link to the annotation is provided.
For a listing of readings by topic, see the
Seminar Schedule.
Required Readings
- Robert Berkhofer, Jr. The White Man's
Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the
Present, Part 3: "Imagery in Literature, Art and
Philosophy"
- Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, Religion, Art and
Iconography: Man and Cosmos in Prehispanic Mesoamerica
- William Cronon, Changes in the Land:
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
- George W. Cronyn, American Indian
Poetry (selections)
- Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The
Metaphysics of Indian Hating and Empire Building
- Kenneth Lincoln, Indi'n Humor
(selections)
- Los Angeles Museum of Natural History, Lost and Found
Traditions
- Calvin Martin, ed., The American
Indian and the Problem of History
- N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy
Mountain
- John Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller
- Raymond Stedman, Shadows of the
Indian: Stereotypes in American Culture
- Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, I Tell
You Now (selections)
- Russell Thornton, American Indian
Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492
- James Welch, Winter in the Blood
Recommended Readings
- Paula Gunn Allen, Song of the Turtle:
American Indian Literature 1974-1994 (selections)
- Ward Churchill, Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature,
Cinema and the Colonization of American Indians
(selections)
- Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
- Hanay Geiogamah, New Native American Drama
- E. Pauline Johnson, Moccasin Maker
- Arnold Krupat, The Voice in the Margin: Native American
Literature and the Canon
- Lucy R. Lippard, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural
America
- D'Arcy McNickle, The Surrounded
- N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
- Mourning Dove, Cogewea, the Half-Blood
- Greg Sarris, Grand Avenue
- Greg Sarris, Mabel McKay: Weaving the
Dream
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
- James Welch, Fool's Crow
- Richard White, Scholars and the Indian Experience
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