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Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral traditions such as creation and trickster stories and dream songs, vividly exploring more than two centuries of shameful betrayal of Native creativity.
List of contents
1. Gossip Theory: Native Irony and the Betrayal of Earthdivers
2. Survivance and Liberty: Turns and Stays of Native Sovereignty
3. Native Transmotion: Totemic Motion and Traces of Survivance
4. Natives of the Progressive Era: Luther Standing Bear and Karl May
5. Expeditions in France: Native Americans in the First World War
6. Visionary Sovereignty: Treaty Reservations and the Occupation of Japan
7. Cosmototemic Art: Natural Motion in Totemic and Visionary Art
8. Native Nouveau Roman: Dead End Simulations of Tragic Victimry
9. Time Warp Provenance: Heye Obsessions and Custer Portrayals
10. Trickster Hermeneutics: Naanabozho Curiosa and Mongrel Chauffeurs
11. Continental Liberty: The Spirit of Chief Joseph and Dane White
12. Pretense of Sovereignty: William Lawrence and the Ojibwe News
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About the author
Gerald Vizenor is a novelist, essayist, and interdisciplinary scholar of Native American culture and literature. He is professor emeritus of American studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including
Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Survivance (Nebraska, 2009), and three recent novels,
Chair of Tears (Nebraska, 2012),
Blue Ravens, and
Native Tributes.
Summary
Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral traditions such as creation and trickster stories and dream songs, vividly exploring more than two centuries of shameful betrayal of Native creativity.
