1. Native American
Renaissance

2. Beginnings
Sarah Winnemucca
Life Among the Piutes (1883)

3. Beginnings
• Break from traditional oral cultural beliefs

6. Origins
Zitkala Sa
Old Indian Legends (1901)
American Indian Stories (1921)

7. Origins
Hum-is hu-ma (Mourning Dove)
Co-ge-wea; the Half Blood (1927)
Coyote Stories (1933)

8. Origins
Indian Boyhood (1902)
Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman)

9. Origins
Black Elk Speaks (1930)
Recorded by John G.
Neihardt

10. House Made of Dawn (1968)
N. Scott Momaday
• Won Pulitzer Prize
• Birth of Native American
literature

14. Gerald Vizenor

15. Leslie Marmon Silko

16. Simon J. Ortiz

17. Louise Erdrich

18. Joy Harjo

19. Sherman Alexie