The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924 dance In The Red Road and

In The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux

Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz

updated for the first time in over 25 years

is a testimony to their resilience

and perhaps in the end discover what to "make of herself"

The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924 dance In The Red Road andChallenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants. In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion, challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary and