"I Leave it With the People of the United States to Say": Autobiographical Disruption in the Personal Narratives of Black Hawk and Ely S. Parker
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle H. Raheja
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 30, no. 1, Special Issue on New Directions in American Indian Autobiography, 2006, pp. 87-108
Description
The author contends that Black Hawk (Ma-ka-tai-me-shekia-kia, Black Sparrow Hawk) and Parker both used writing in order to be heard but withheld information, which becomes significant to each narrative.