1994 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers
American Indian Written Literatures
June 20-August 12, 1994
Directed by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this seminar will focus on the evolution of written autobiographies and fiction published from 1829 to the present. It will examine how authors used multiple literary voices and how the writers were influenced by both their tribal oral traditions and non-Indian literature. Writers to be studied include William Apess, George Copway, Sarah Winnemucca, Mourning Dove, John Joseph Matthews, D'Arcy McNickle, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich. The audience is college teachers in such fields as literature, history, philosophy, anthropology and folklore.
Guest speakers:
Jim Northrup (Ojibwa)
James Welch (Blackfeet/GrosVentre)
