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Sun Oct 02, 2011 at 11:58:08 AM PDT
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Once again an American Indian writer's work is among the top ten most "challenged" (i.e. banned) books in the United States. Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is ranked as number 2. According to the news report:
Published in 2007, the book remained relatively under the censorship radar until 2010, debuting at the number two spot of most challenged books. The book is challenged for " offensive language, racism, sex education, sexually explicit, violence , and being unsuited to age group (grades 7 through 10).
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/top-10-c...
In his collection of short stories entitled The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie mentions censorship in the Third Grade:
My traditional Native American art career began and ended with my very first portrait: Stick Indian Taking a Piss in My Backyard.
As I circulated the original print around the classroom, Mrs. Schluter intercepted and confiscated my art.
Censorship, I might cry now. Freedom of expression, I would write in editorials to the tribal newspaper.
In third grade, however, I stood alone in the corner, faced the wall, and waited for the punishment to end.
I'm still waiting.
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Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 21:37:31 PM PST
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When John Rollin Ridge died in 1867 he was eulogized as one of California's great poets and political commentator. To understand his life and what motivated him, we must start by looking at his parents: John Ridge and Sarah Bird Northrup.
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Sun Jul 25, 2010 at 14:48:02 PM PDT
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In 1966, Richard Hugo was teaching a poetry class at the University of Montana. One of his students was James Welch who had been born on the Blackfeet Reservation and raised on the Fort Belknap Reservation. Hugo realized that Welch knew nothing of poetry, but he encouraged him to write about what he did know: life on the reservation. As a result, Welch began to write about the reservations and the people on the reservations. These writings resulted in Riding the Earthboy 40.
James Welch was a part of the renaissance of American Indian literature. When he began his writing, Indian authors were unknown. He later noted that D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded was out of print at this time and that the other major Indian authors that are widely studied today were just beginning their careers.
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Sun Jul 18, 2010 at 08:45:34 AM PDT
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For many people in the academic world, one of the major foundations of Native American literature was laid with the publication of The Surrounded in 1936. This novel, written by D'Arcy McNickle, was not the first novel written by an Indian nor was it particularly successful at the time. The book came out in the midst of the depression and found relatively little readership in spite of good reviews. In the 70 years that have passed since the book's publication, however, it has become one of the most widely read and studied American Indian novels.
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