Native American Novelist Series
• Gerald Vizenor . 1995.
Documentary. VHS. 50 minutes.
His life, like his work, was a long time taking root in a place and a culture. Drawing on his Ojibwa heritage, the bitter effects of his father's murder when he was still a baby, his intermittent formal education, and his need to reconcile the tribal past with the political present, Vizenor has, poem by poem, story by story, and novel by novel constructed an impressive oeuvre that marks him among the most prolific and most intellectually challenging writers of the Native American renaissance. (source: tape case copy)
• James Welch . 1995.
Documentary. VHS. 50 minutes.
Part Blackfoot; part Gros Ventre Indian, Welch finds his subject matter in his Indian heritage and his plots in the emotions and trials common to all humans. Here, Welch discuses his background, his sources, his vision, and his personal way of particularizing the universal. (source: tape case copy)
• Leslie M. Silko . 1995.
Documentary. VHS. 50 minutes.
More rare than Native American writers known outside their own communities are Native American women writers. The best known is Leslie Marmon Silko, whose work is strongly rooted in her own matrilineal tribal background. Like all writing of lasting value, it uses particular experiences and places to reveal universal truths. Here, Silko discusses her own background and the interrelationship between her smaller, immediate Indian world and the larger, brutal surrounding world. (source: tape case copy)
• N. Scott Momaday . 1995.
Documentary. VHS. 50 minutes.
The best-known of the Native American writers, N. Scott Momaday is the most widely published and read. He is the recipient of the greatest number and most valued awards and prizes for both his poetry and his prose. A Ph.D. in English literature, he has combined his study of Western literature with the themes as well as the structures of his Kiowa Indian heritage. Here, Momaday discusses what it means to a Native American, to be an American citizen, and reveals the artist, thinker, and imaginative creator behind (or perhaps at the core of) his impressive and important body of work. (source: tape case copy)
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