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We still tell stories: An examination of Cherokee oral literature.
(2002)
A primary objective of the study is to show that Cherokee Indians are not antiquated human beings stuck in history, but a modern, contemporary people with deep ancestral connections to their heritage. The stories they tell ...
Acts of empathic imagination: Contemporary Native American artists and writers as healers.
(2001)
This dissertation uses the model of Native American "Morning Prayers" to establish four geographic and cultural regions within the United States as the means to discuss the relationship between health and contemporary ...
A disarming laughter: The role of humor in tribal cultures. An examination of humor in contemporary Native American literature and art.
(2000)
Non-Indians have long considered Indian people to possess little or no sense of humor because they trustingly accept prevailing stereotypes. This dissertation dispels this assumption by showing that humor has served, and ...
Dakotapi women's traditions: A historical and literary critique of women as culture bearers.
(1997)
A tradition is established by such early writers as Marie Louise McLaughlin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, and Ella Cara Deloria. These women writers knew early in their lives the importance of women's voices in literature. ...