English 446/546, Sec. 15 American Indian Poetry/Fiction/Drama Spring 2004, MWF 2-2:50

Students will study of twentieth/twenty-first century works by indigenous writers of North America. Texts: McNickle's The Surrounded, Welch’s Winter in the Blood , Silko's Ceremony, Erdrich's Love Medicine, Alexie’s Smoke Signals, Long Wolf’s Long Wolf Poems and Purdy and Ruppert’s Nothing But the Truth. Requirements: Attendance, 250-word response to an out-of-class cultural event, in-class essay exams on each text, 500-word essay on one of the texts, abstract, 5-7 page research paper. In addition, graduate students lead the way in class discussions and do additional research in writing a 10-14 page essay to present to the class, instead of the 5-7 page research paper.