![]() Mihesuah (Choctaw), Sherman Alexie (Spokane/Coeur d'Alene), and Ilze Choi responded with assertions that Frazier's book is far from representing an insightful, authentic telling of a contemporary Indian narrative. ![]() ![]() However, reputable Native scholars such as Devon A. Critics from mainstream publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Times Magazine, Writer Magazine, and America Magazine insisted that Frazier recreates an accurate and respectful account of the Oglala Sioux living on the Pine Ridge Reservation. How a Native American story is told formed the heart of the controversy surrounding Ian Frazier's bestseller On the Rez_(2002). Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Crow Creek Sioux) writes, "How the Indian narrative is told, how it is nourished, who tells it, who nourishes it, and the consequences of its telling are among the most fascinating-and at the same time, chilling-stories of our time" (111). Scott Momaday (Kiowa-Cherokee), Luci Tapahonso (Navajo), Geary Hobson (Cherokee/Arkansas Quapaw), Paula Gunn Allen (Laguna), and Vine Deloria, Jr. More and more writers of Native American heritage are telling their stories, writers such as N. Reclaiming and affirming cultural and personal identity is a struggle for many Native Americans it is a struggle that is not only passed down in oral tradition but is also disseminated as poetry, fiction, academic scholarship, and creative nonfiction. The Soul Never Thinks without a Mental Image. Speech, in traditional thought, has great potential for both healing healing and destruction. ![]()
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