Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews

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TRIBAL THEORY IN NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E B R A S K A P R E S S | L I N C O L N A N D L O N D O N Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews PENELOPE MYRTLE KELSEY © 2008 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared as“A‘Real Indian’ to the Boy Scouts: Charles Eastman’s Role in American Indian Resistance Literature of the Early Twentieth Century,” Western American Literature 38, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 30–48. Reprinted with permission. An earlier version of chapter 3 appeared as “Narratives of the Boarding School Era from Victimry to Resistance,” Revista Atenea 23, no. 2 (Winter 2003): 123–38. issn 0885-6079. Reprinted with permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kelsey, Penelope Myrtle. Tribal theory in Native American literature : Dakota and Haudenosaunee writing and indigenous worldviews / Penelope Myrtle Kelsey. p. cm. This book attempts to show how we might use tribal knowledges as theoretical frameworks for reading Native American texts. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8032-2771-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. American literature—Indian authors— History and criticism—Theory, etc. 2. Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. 3. Indian philosophy—North America. 4. Indians in literature. I. Title. ps153.i52k46 2008 810.9'897—dc22 2007051820 Set in Minion by Kim Essman. Designed by Ashley Muehlbauer. To Levi General and those yet unborn whose faces are coming from beneath the ground ...