id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4787 Native American literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 1266 149 56 Native American literature Wikipedia Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, Joy Harjo, Sherman Alexie, D'Arcy McNickle, James Welch, Charles Eastman, Mourning Dove, Zitkala-Sa, John Rollin Ridge, Lynn Riggs, Diane Glancy, Hanay Geiogamah, William Apess, Samson Occom, et al. Native American literatures come out of a rich set of oral traditions from before European contact and/or the later adoption of European writing practices. Many of these authors blended autobiography, traditional stories, fiction, and essays, as can be seen in Zitkala-Sa's (Dakota) American Indian Stories. Native American Renaissance[edit] The focal point for the "arrival" of Native American literature as a significant literary event came with the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a Native author, N. Studies in American Indian Literatures Native American Literature Symposium List of Native American languages in the United States American Indian English This literature-related article is a stub. Native American literature Native American literature ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4787.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4787.txt