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Sun, 12 Dec 1999 09:00:13 -0800
Posted by [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Provided by MaryM..thanks! Good Morning, There are six articles of interest in today's Lincoln Journal Star: Native voices resonate in literature BY JODI RAVE LEE Lincoln Journal Star http://www.journalstar.com/stories/top/stox (entire story at this Link) PHOTOS "Writing for children freed me to write from the heart" http://www.journalstar.com/stories/top/sto1 Land-based writer http://www.journalstar.com/stories/top/sto3 For professor, "only the writing matters' http://www.journalstar.com/stories/top/sto5 2nd novel reflects changes in author http://www.journalstar.com/stories/top/sto7 Writer's appeal goes beyond Native Americans http://www.journalstar.com/stories/top/sto8 Their stories survived, without paper, for thousands of years. Until the last century, indigenous people generally relied on oral tradition to keep generations connected, rarely translating their native tongue into European languages, rarely recording their thoughts in ink. "Before, it was only white people writing books," said Francis Geffard, an editor at a major French publishing house specializing in literature of the American West. "That has all changed now." And nowhere is the change more evident than in the bursting international prominence of contemporary American Indian writers. If N. Scott Momaday's 1969 Pulitzer Prize for "House Made of Dawn" punched a hole in the mainstream literary world, a new generation of writers is tearing it wide open. "Ten years ago you might have heard of Louise Erdrich or Scott Momaday or Leslie Marmon Silko," said Jason Tetzloff, assistant history professor at Ohio's Defiance College. <SNIP> Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. <><<<<<>>>>><><<<<> Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ <><<<<<>>>>><><<<<>