Native American Women’s Writing

Karen L. Kilcup is Professor of American literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The recipient of a US national Distinguished Teacher award in 1987, Professor Kilcup has been named the Davidson Eminent Scholar Chair in the Humanities at Florida International University for Fall 2000. She is the author or editor of six books on American literature and culture, including Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition (1999), Robert Frost and Feminine Literary Tradition (1998), and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology (1997).

This ground-breaking anthology establishes the tradition of early Native American women's writing within American literature and American women's history.

Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I:. 1. Traditional Narratives and Songs. 2. Nancy Ward and early Cherokee Women. 3. Mary Jemison (Degiwenea s) (Seneca, c. 1743--1833). 4. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwa, 1800--1841). 5. Lucy Lowrey Hoyt Keys (Wahnenauhi) (Cherokee, 1831--1912). 6. Narcissa Owen (Cherokee, 1831--1911). 7. Waheenee. 8. Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony) (Paiute, c. 1844--1891). 9. Susette LaFlasche (Inshta Theamba or Bright Eyes) (Omaha, 1854--1903). 10. Annette Leevier (Ojibwa). 11. E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (Mohawk, 1861--1913). 12. Mabel Washbourne Anderson (Cherokee, 1863--1949). 13. Sophia Alice Callahan (Creek, 1868--1894). 14. Fox Indian Woman. 15. Owl Woman (Juana Manwell) ( Papago, fl. 1880) / Frances Densmore (1867--1957). 16. Zitkala--Sa (Red Bird, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (Sioux, 1876--1938). 17. Ora V. Eddleman Reed (Mignon Schreiber) (Cherokee, 1880--1968). Part II: Works by Various Authors.