/lit/ - Literature

Natalia Toledo and that Bolivian Amerindian I forgot the name.

>>15934684
> we wuz Medicine Men

>>15934850
>many native tribes still practice traditional local religion with minimal changes
>whites have to dress up as vikings and pretend to be pagan
Tough break.

As for OP's question, I remember reading Ceremony some years ago. It's about WW2 vets on a reservation, draws on some religious imagery. I remember it being pretty decent.

>>15934940
>Implying

>>15934684
That's a negro, not a native.

>>15934684
>good non-White literature

>>15936340
Lots of it. And "white" is a meme.

>>15936345
No it isn't and you know it isn't
>>15934684
I don't know but John Trudell might interest you

I like William Least Heat Moon though he doesn’t really focus on Native American topics
There’s a brief part of Blue Highways where he encounters anti-Native American discrimination but mostly he writes about vanishing small town America and ecological concerns.

>>15934684
There was a story in our English book by this female native writer called Zitkala Sa. I don't exactly remember the name of the story but her writing seemed good, so maybe check her out.

>>15934684
>literature from Indians about Indian
So, self-hating Native American literature?

Winter in the Blood

Always coming home by Ursula K Leguin is a fictional ethnography based on her father's work with Indian tribes in northern California. Actual native Americans aren't good at lit lol

>>15934940
>>whites have to dress up as vikings and pretend to be pagan

Only because traditional white cultures have been destroyed by international Jewry.

>>15934684
House made of dawn

>>15936604

Cringe

>>15936604
based
>>15937675
seethe

>>15934684
>the world is on the back of a turtle
what is under the turtle
>uhhhhhhh.... its turtles all the way down
amazing philosophical and mythological acheivements, surely. wow. can we just do away with the pretense and say these feather-abbos are, indeed, as the song suggests, savages?

>>15934940
>many native tribes still practice traditional local religion with minimal changes
lol no

>>15936533
it was crap and he's essentially a white guy with a funny name. tl;dr for the rest of you,
>some faggot loser has a sad with his gf and drops out of live
>dirtbags it in a van while traveling the country on backroads
>talks with a few different rural meth-users and surveys their tin shacks
>that's the entire book
there was nothing even particularly native american about it. he could have been a white guy and the book would be exactly the same.

>>15934684
Anything be Louise Erdrich, as well as lots by Sherman Alexie and Thomas King (both fiction and non-fiction)

>>15936412
>No it isn't and you know it isn't
It is a meme. Faggots can't even agree on its definition.

>>15939396

White privilege isnt a well defined concept?

http://browse.americanartcollaborative.org/object/wam/11948.html
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1372/1372-h/1372-h.htm#link2H_4_0049
>The free trapper combines, in the eye of an Indian girl, all that is dashing and heroic in a warrior of her own race, whose gait, and garb, and bravery he emulates, with all that is gallant and glorious in the white man. And then the indulgence with which he treats her, the finery in which he decks her out, the state in which she moves, the sway she enjoys over both his purse and person; instead of being the drudge and slave of an Indian husband, obliged to carry his pack, and build his lodge, and make his fire, and bear his cross humors and dry blows. No; there is no comparison in the eyes of an aspiring belle of the wilderness, between a free trapper and an Indian brave.

>>15939921
No. Burgers are cringe either way, so it doesn't matter.

>>15934684
mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones is p good

>>15939396
>deconstructionist bullshit again

Even though he got cancelled Sherman Alexie is good.

Reservation Blues, The Business of Fancydancing, and Tonto and The Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven are all good collections.

>>15939921
someone on this very board told me yesterday that people in Japan and China have white privilege, so you tell me

>>15941066
>People on 4chan told me something outrageous
Ok.

>>15934684
if you want something more modern, maybe check out Custer Died for Your Sins?

>>15934940
>many native tribes still practice traditional local religion with minimal changes
Yeah, that's why almost all of them are alcoholics

>>15941345
How do we help the natives bros

>>15940777
"white" is a jewish psyop

>>15934684
Black Elk Speaks. As for the rest of you:

>>15941386
we must bind together

>>15934684
Popol Vuh by Anonymous
The Autobiography of Black Hawk by Black Hawk
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie