Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gifford, Barry

Titel

A Look2 Essay by Barry Gifford

Ist Teil von

• Ploughshares, 2012-10, Vol.38 (2), p.180-183

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: Ploughshares

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Gifford features the careers of accomplished authors who have yet to receive the full appreciation that their work deserves. Among others, poet John Neihardt's narratives of having lived and moved among those last survivors of the ethnic cleansing perpetrated by predominantly white settlers and the US Army operating according to the mandate of manifest destiny. Neihardt did not disparage this business of civilizing the West, but he did talk about the need to preserve the knowledge inherent in Native American cultures and to study their manners of survival.