Dragonfly, Walking Stick
Dragonfly, Walking Stick examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English Colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native Americans and English Christians, the novel celebrates the creation of fertile hybridity as it confronts the difficulty of such rich mixtures finding acceptance in the seventeenth-century Colonial world.
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Dragonfly, Walking Stick
Dragonfly, Walking Stick examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English Colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native Americans and English Christians, the novel celebrates the creation of fertile hybridity as it confronts the difficulty of such rich mixtures finding acceptance in the seventeenth-century Colonial world.
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Dragonfly, Walking Stick

Dragonfly, Walking Stick

by Judy R. Smith
Dragonfly, Walking Stick

Dragonfly, Walking Stick

by Judy R. Smith

Overview

Dragonfly, Walking Stick examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English Colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native Americans and English Christians, the novel celebrates the creation of fertile hybridity as it confronts the difficulty of such rich mixtures finding acceptance in the seventeenth-century Colonial world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781936205752
Publisher: Stephen F. Austin University Press
Publication date: 06/05/2012
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 8.90(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range: 15 - 18 Years

About the Author

 


JUDY R. SMITH is a Professor of American Literature at Kenyon College. Her first novel, Yellowbird (Lewis-Clark Press, 2007) won the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Award. Her work interrogates the complicated relationships among and between Northeastern Indian tribes and Colonists and the reverberations that continue to echo in America.

 

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