The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924

The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants. In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion, challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary and

Mays uses a wide-array of historical activists and pop culture icons

The contributors draw on examples from tribal colleges

Fry bread is us

joyfuly spent his boyhood summers on Campobello Island

and becoming propertyless

or Little Frog

mainstream portrayals of Indigenous life

attempt to rob the tribal museum for valuable root clubs

and animals

the first boy whose body was found in the water

In 1984 she received a Wonder Woman Foundation award honoring her as a woman striving for peace and equality

" in Cree—is a heartbreaking account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the next