Behind the Shadows of Wounded Knee: The Slippage of Imagination in Wynema: A Child of the Forest
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lisa Tatonetti
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring, 2004, pp. 1-31
Description
Contends that the depiction of the 1890 Lakota Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee massacre in Sophia Alice Callahan's novel, the first known novel by an Native American woman, provides a Native American perspective on self-identity in the late nineteenth century.
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