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Why I Can'T Read Wallace Stegner: A Tribal Voice

4 reviews
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

University of Wisconsin Press, 1996

Elder and knowledge keeper for American Indian studies
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn with Vine Deloria, Jr., and Beatrice Medicine are among the Northern Plains Elders of the American Indian studies movement in the academy today. This important first collection of Cook-Lynn's essays should (I think will, as well as already does) appeal to Indigenous undergraduate and graduate students and our allies hungry for tribal voices among the chorus of anti-Indian ...

I Remember the Fallen Trees: New and Selected Poems
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Eastern Washington University Press, 1998

New Indians, Old Wars
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

University of Illinois Press, 2007

Challenging received American history and forging a new path for Native American studies Addressing Native American Studies' past, present, and future, the essays in New Indians, Old Wars tackle the discipline head-on, presenting a radical revision of the popular view of the American West in the process. Instead of luxuriating in its past glories or accepting the widespread historians' view of the West as a shared place, Elizabeth ...

Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

University of Illinois Press, 2007

We all know what happened at Wounded Knee . . . don't we? In this powerful and essential work, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn confronts the politics and policies of genocide that continue to destroy the land, livelihood, and culture of Native Americans. Anti-Indianism in Modern America tells the other side of stories of historical massacres and modern-day hate crimes, events that are dismissed or glossed over by historians, journalists, and courts ...

The Power of Horses and Other Stories (Sun Tracks)
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

University of Arizona Press, 2006

The fifteen stories contained in The Power of Horses portray, each in a different way, the sensitive and enduring culture of the Dakota of the Upper Plains and convey many of the basic truths that have sustained Elizabeth Cook-Lynn?s people for countless generations. Though the stories are often filled with violence and grief, they are also brimming with beauty, gentleness, charm, and humor. In these striking and memorable tales of Dakota ...

The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty

9 reviews
Mario Gonzalez, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

University of Illinois Press, 1998

important model for rewriting Indian and U.S. history
What first strikes this reader is the very frank and engrossing personal narrative, as well as the description of the on-going political struggle of the Sioux in their battle for the return of the Black Hills in South Dakota. The diary entries of lawyer Mario Gonzales and the commentaries of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn gave me an opportunity to re-think important events in Sioux and American history ...

The Power of Horses
Elizabeth COOK-LYNN

Arcade, 1990

Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Sun Tracks)

1 review
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

University of Arizona Press, 2007

A biting critique of national self-aggrandizement
Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a diverse collection of poetry, prose, and political views. that questions the all-too-common bias and distortion that permeates retellings of American history. "...the Image of The White American Male as Fearless Explorer and Conqueror, intrepid, strong and brave Seeker of New Vistas going out fearlessly into the Unknown, is well established in story and ...

Seek the House of Relatives
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Blue Cloud Quarterly, 1983

Anti-Indianism in Modern America
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Univ of Illinois Pr, 2007

Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy

2 reviews
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

University Press of Colorado, 2002

A story that needs to be told.
This book traces american indian relations in the United States beginning around 1930 and ending in the 1990's. Just as the relations are complex, so to is the character Aurelia, a Lakota. She has had to deal with many harsh experiences growing up on the reservation, but throughout her life she continues to return to traditional thinking and stories. The book moves along slowly, it is not a ...

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