Dec 28, 2009

Lullaby | Compare and Contrast

1970s: Silko's novel Ceremony (1977) was the first novel by a Native American woman ever to be published.

1990s: Several Native American women novelists have risen into prominence, including Paula Gunn Allen, whose first novel, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, was published in 1983, and Louise Erdrich, whose first novel Love Medicine, was published in 1984.

1970s: The Native American rights movement, first formally organized in 1968 as the American Indian Movement (AIM), was still in its early stages. Native Americans were...