"That the People Might Live": Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy

Index

Aho, 134, 136, 138, 144, 208n7 Akjartoq, 40 Alexie, Sherman, 18, 152, 167–70, 191n69 Algonquians, 113, 146 Allen, Paula Gunn, 162–63 “Among the Savages...” (Salisbury, 2000), 165 animals, elegies for, 18, 147–52, 160, 210n23, 210n28–29 “anniversary poem for the cheyennes who died at sand creek” (Henson, 1976), 155 Aoki, Haruo, 99, 102, 182 Apaches, 2, 9, 15, 41, 59, 66, 68, 87–95, 90–94, 92–93, 198–99n65 Apess, William, 6, 16–17, 109, 122–25, 126, 202n1, 204n25, 205–6n35, 205n31, 205n33 Aquash, Anne Mae Pictou, 157 Arapahos, 47, 51–54, 52, 56–57, 115, 155, 190n55 “At the Burial of a Ball-Player Who Died from Diabetes” (Louis), 162 Auden, W. H., 166, 211n37 autobiography, Indian, 61, 109, 116, 191n3, 202n1, 207n2 Azure, Alice Hatfield, 163–64 Barnes, Jim, 18, 152, 166 Basso, Keith, 2 Bear Sings, 117 Beauchamp, William, 23, 25, 26, 188n40 Beckett, Samuel, 152 Bible, Native American elegy echoing, 64, 66, 72, 92, 127, 193n17, 199n67 Big Foot, Sitanka, 50, 161, 57203n14 Biography and History of the Indians of North America from Its First Discovery (Drake, 1834/1841), 70–72, 173, 194n25 bison ceremony, 118 Black Elk and Black Elk Speaks (published 1932), 9, 16, 116–22, 118–20, 119 Black Fox/Black Coyote, 57 Black Hawk: Catlin’s portrait of, 71; Cochise compared, 92; exile, Native American experience of, 9; Life (published 1833), Index 234 Index Black Hawk (continued) 16, 70, 72–73, 106, 108–16, 130; “Logan’s Lament” and, 66, 67, 68; Sauk lifeways, Life as elegy for, 110–11, 114–16; “Surrender Speech” of (1832?), 15, 69–73, 85, 105–6, 108–9, 172–75 Black Hawk War (1832), 15, 69, 70, 113 Black Leggings Society, 143 Black Road, 117 Blaeser, Kimberly, 18, 152, 158–59, 210n29 Bradford, William, 64, 171 Brant, Molly (Tekonwatonti), 156–57 Brown, David, 129, 130 Brown, Mark H., 99, 100–101, 200n74, 201n82 Bryan, William Jennings, 64, 66 Buck, John, 24, 25 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, 118 Buffon, Count de, 65 burial and death, 46, 84–86, 94, 104, 113–14, 130, 156–60, 170, 183n2, 210n30 Bushyhead, Jesse, 131 Camp, Thelma Louise, 165 Captain John, 98, 100, 101, 200n78, 201n84, 201n88, 202n91 Carlson, David, 78 Catlin, George, 71 Cayugas, 21, 24, 62, 63, 67, 185n8, 192n11, 192n14 Ceremony (Silko, 1977), 8 Chaetar, 69, 70, 193n23 Chaleco, Arsenius, 133 Changer or Transformer, in Coast Salish mythology, 81 Changing is Not Vanishing (Parker, 2011), 128, 143–44, 206n38 “Changing is Not Vanishing” (Montezuma, 1916), 206n38 Chapman, Arthur “Ad,” 99, 102–4, 182, 190n56 Charles, Abram, 24 Cherokees: exile of (1838), 9, 16–17, 123–25, 129–33, 164, 206n37, 211n33; modern elegiac poetry and, 153, 159, 164; Ridge, John Rollin, and, 128, 206n37; Sauk people and, 110, 111; Sequoyah, poetic memorializations of, 129–30, 165 A Cheyenne Sketchbook (Henson, 1992), 155 Cheyennes, 49–50, 51, 54–55, 139, 155–56, 189–90n55 Chicago, Indian poetry from, 163–64 Chickasaws, 144, 145, 146 Chief Joseph, surrender speech of (1877?), 15, 95–105; authenticity of, 98–105, 106; exile, Native American experience of, 9; historical circumstances of, 95–98; Kershaw’s poetic monologue, 132; “Logan’s Lament” compared, 66; as message or reply versus speech, 100–105, 200n81, 201n85; modern elegiac poetry on Chief Joseph, 162, 211n34; names of Joseph, 95, 199n70; photograph of Chief Joseph, 97; publication history, 99–105, 201n86; text of speech, 181–82; Turrill and Joseph, 90 Chippewas (Anishinaabe), 147 Chiricahua Apaches, 41, 87, 90–94 Chivington, John, 155 Choctaws, 130, 166 Chokonen people, 91 Christianity and Native American elegy, 64, 66, 80–83, 86, 120, 122–25, 127, 129, 147, 163, 190–91n64, 193n17, 197n54, 204n23 Clinton Duncan, DeWitt, 129, 130, 132–33, 206n45 Cochise, 9, 15, 66, 68, 87–95, 106, 179–81, 198–99n65–66 Coeur d’Alene people, 169 Cogewea (Humishuma, 1927), 201n90 Columbus, Christopher, 8, 168 “Columbus Day” (Durham, 1983), 153–55 Comanches, 51, 139 communal or societal nature of loss in Native American elegy, 4–6, 9–10, 13, 116 communal or societal nature of Native American identity, 109–10, 148–49 “The Contrast, a Splenetic Effusion, March, 1823” (Schoolcraft), 125 cosmopolitan perspective on Native American literature, 11–12 Coyote (mythological figure), 4 Crazy Horse, 50, 162 Cree people, 2, 42–43, 144, 145, 147 Creeks, 112 Cresap, Michael, 63, 67, 172 Crook, George, 87, 90 Crow Foot, 57 Crow people, 96, 98, 200n76 Crow Woman in Cheyenne ritual and ceremony, 54–55...