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    Strategies of Discourse: Native American Women Characters in Jackson's "Romona," Callahan's "Wynema," and Mourning Dove's "Cogewea"

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    2002-09-01
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    Knittel, Janna
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    Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu
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    Copyright (c) Indigenous Nations Journal. For rights questions please contact the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, 1410 Jayhawk Blvd, 6 Lippincott Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
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    This article treats three novels that present Native American women title characters: Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, published in 1884; S. Alice Callahan's Wynema, a Childofthe Forest (1891); and Mourning Dove's Cogewea, the Half Blood (1927). Jackson is a White writer best known for her activism on behalf of Native peoples; nevertheless, she forges an identity for her lead character that is stereotypical and unrealistic as Ramona learns of her Indian heritage and suddenly becomes Indian in her values and speech. Callahan, a Muscogee Creek writer, creates a character who, however in tune with Muscogee ways in her youth, gradually transforms into a replica of her white, middle-class teacher. Both of these novels present characters who shift between two discreet ethnic identities. In contrast, Mourning Dove, an Okanogan writer, creates a character of both white and Indian heritage who refuses to compromise either identity and who becomes a multi-facted model of mixed blood subjectivity.
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    Indigenous Nations Journal, Volume 3, Number 2 (Fall, 2002), pp. 53-69

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