Kenny, Maurice - Craig S. Womack (essay date 1994)
Craig S. Womack (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "The Spirit of Independence: Maurice Kenny's Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant: Poems of War," in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, 1994, pp. 95-118.
[Womack is a critic of Creek-Cherokee descent. In the essay below, he examines Tekonwatonti/Molly Brant, focusing on Kenny's characterization, narrative voice, depiction of male-female tensions, and contribution to Native American history.]
Citizens of the Six Nations have long been known as keepers of tribal histories. The Tuscaroran Reverend David Cusick probably wrote the first native tribal history, his Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations, published in 1848. Cusick "turned back to the blanket" after becoming disillusioned with Christianity, as did the Huron convert Peter Dooyentate Clarke, a missionary who later disappeared after writing The Origins and Traditional History of the Wyandots...
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