Early Indigenous Literatures

Bibliography & Acknowledgements

Bibliography
Allen, Chadwick. Trans-indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies. 
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Clifton, Lucille. Generations. New York Review Books Classics, 2021.
Guthrie, Ricardo. “Embodying an Imagined other through Rebellion, Resistance and Joy: Mardi Gras Indians and Black Indigeneity.” AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Vol. 12, No. 5, 2016: [558]-573
Hartman, Saidiya. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval. New York: W. W. Norton, 2019.
hooks, bell. Black Looks: Race and Representation. Routledge, 2015.
“Iko Iko.” Traditional Folk Song. Recorded as “Jockamo” by James Crawford and the Cane Cutters. Chess Records, 1953.

Leroy, Justin. “Black History in Occupied Territory: On the Entanglements of Slavery and Settler Colonialism.” Theory and Event 19, no, 4 (2016).
Lief, Shane and John McCusker. Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019.
Lipsitz, George. "Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counternarrative in Black New Orleans."When Brer Rabbit meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature, edited by Jonathan Brennan. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.
Marrant, John. A NARRATIVE OF THE LORD’S wonderful DEALINGS WITH JOHN MARRANT, A BLACK. London, Gilbert and Plummer. 1785. Edward E. Ayer Collection, Newberry Library Archives, Chicago, IL, USA.
Miles, Tiya. Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Tarsekayahke “Shoe Boots.” Petition to the General Council of the Cherokee Nation, 1824, as cited in Miles, Tiya. Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

Acknowledgements
Thank you to Prof. Kelly Wisecup's ENG 441 class for creating a supportive and rigorous environment for us all to explore ideas, develop as thinkers, and share space with one another. My eternal gratitude to those whose lives and work make a project like this possible.

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