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• ISBN: 9780820330587 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0820330582 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780820330594 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0820330590 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: x, 242 pages ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-232) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The land ethic stereotype: American Indian wisdom -- Where the buffalo roam: Iconoclasts and Romantics -- Between the people and the land: Luther standing bear, Mother Earth, and assimilation -- Talking back: John Joseph Mathews and Talking to the moon -- "She gives me a metaphor": survival and Louise Erdrich's The blue jay's dance -- Cultural identity, storytelling, place: revision and return in Louis Owen's Wolfsong -- "From the land itself": Momaday's language, landscape, and land ethic -- Living with the land: Deloria, landscape, and religion -- Liberation and the land: the environmental ethos of Gerald Vizenor -- "Changed by the wild": Linda Hogan's spirit of renewal -- Killing the whale: sightings and the Makah hunt.

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Subject:

American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Human ecology in literature.
Indians in literature.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Environmental ethics.
Indian ethics > North America.
Indian philosophy > North America.
Indians of North America > Ethnic identity.