American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings,9780142437094

American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings

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ISBN13: 9780142437094
ISBN10: 0142437093
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-02-25
Publisher(s): Penguin Classics
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Summary

Edna Pontellier, a young wife and mother, refuses to be caged by married and domestic life and claims for herself moral and erotic freedom. Through careful, subtle changes of style, Kate Chopin shows Edna's transformation-and its tragic consequences. This unique volume also includes some of Chopin's finest stories, among them "At the 'Cadian Ball" and "Désirée's Baby." Edited with an Introduction by Sandra M. Gilbert

Author Biography

Kate Chopin (1850-1904) was born in St. Louis. She moved to Louisiana where she wrote two novels and numerous stories. Because The Awakening was widely condemned, publication of Chopin's third story collection was cancelled. The Awakening was rediscovered by scholars in the 1960s and 1970s and is her best-known work.

Sandra M. Gilbert teaches at the University of California, Davis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Suggestions for Further Reading xxxvii
Chronology xli
A Note on the Texts xlv
Old Indian Legends
Preface
5(2)
Iktomi and the Ducks
7(6)
Iktomi's Blanket
13(3)
Iktomi and the Muskrat
16(3)
Iktomi and the Coyote
19(3)
Iktomi and the Fawn
22(5)
The Badger and the Bear
27(6)
The Tree-Bound
33(6)
Shooting of the Red Eagle
39(3)
Iktomi and the Turtle
42(3)
Dance in a Buffalo Skull
45(2)
The Toad and the Boy
47(4)
Iya, the Camp-Eater
51(5)
Manstin, the Rabbit
56(5)
The Warlike Seven
61(7)
American Indian Stories
Impressions of an Indian Childhood
68(19)
The School Days of an Indian Girl
87(17)
An Indian Teacher Among Indians
104(10)
The Great Spirit
114(4)
The Soft-Hearted Sioux
118(9)
The Trial Path
127(5)
A Warrior's Daughter
132(9)
A Dream of Her Grandfather
141(2)
The Widespread Enigma Concerning Blue-Star Woman
143(12)
America's Indian Problem
155(9)
Selections from American Indian Magazine
The Indian's Awakening (January-March 1916)
164(4)
A Year's Experience in Community Service Work Among the Ute Tribe of Indians (October-December 1916)
168(5)
The Red Man's America (January-March 1917)
173(2)
Chipeta, Widow of Chief Ouray with a Word About a Deal in Blankets (July-September 1917)
175(4)
A Sioux Woman's Love for Her Grandchild (October-December 1917)
179(2)
Editorial Comment (July-September 1918)
181(3)
Indian Gifts to Civilized Man (July-September 1918)
184(3)
Secretary's Report in Brief (July-September 1918)
187(4)
Editorial Comment (Winter 1919)
191(2)
America, Home of the Red Man (Winter 1919)
193(3)
The Coronation of Chief Powhatan Retold (Winter 1919)
196(3)
Letter to the Chiefs and Headmen of the Tribes (Winter 1919)
199(2)
Editorial Comment (Spring 1919)
201(6)
Editorial Comment (Summer 1919)
207(5)
An Indian Praying on the Hilltop (Spring 1919)
212(1)
Address by the Secretary-Treasurer, Society of American Indians Annual Convention (Summer 1919)
213(9)
Poetry, Pamphlets, Essays, and Speeches
Side by Side (March 1896)
222(5)
A Ballad (January 1897)
227(7)
Iris of Life (November 1898)
234(1)
A Protest Against the Abolition of the Indian Dance (August 1902)
235(4)
The Menace of Peyote (ca. 1916)
239(3)
Americanize the First American (1921)
242(3)
Bureaucracy Versus Democracy (1921)
245(2)
A Dakota Ode to Washington (1922)
247(3)
California Indian Trails and Prayer Trees (1922)
250(4)
Lost Treaties of the California Indians (1922)
254(4)
The California Indians of Today (1922)
258(3)
Heart to Heart Talk (1922)
261(4)
Explanatory Notes 265

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