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Native American Long Fiction (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

Introduction

Although Native Americans, also known as American Indians, are an ancient people, much of their written literature is fairly recent. It was only in the twentieth century that Native American authors began to produce long fiction and that Native American ethnicity became a central theme in novels and other forms of writing. Nevertheless, the literature of America’s oldest minority group does have deep cultural roots.

Roots of Native American Long Fiction

Long before the arrival of Europeans in America, the tribes and nations that inhabited North...

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