Email this article 
THE CULTURAL CONFLICT OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN PEOPLE: A BRIEF OVERVIEW ON TWO AMERICAN INDIAN FICTIONS
Abstract
lived for centuries and long before the coming of European people to America in 15003. There are many tribes, even more than a hundred, among the Indian people. Each of them lived in group and has their own characteristics, such as language, custom, and culture. The contact between the Indian people and the European people brought a new era especially for the Indian people, which later changed the life of the Indian people from traditional into modem. It bears a cultural conflict for Indian people as can be seen in the works of Indian fictions such as House Made of Dawn and Auntie Angie's Cheyenne Affair, both written by Indian people, N Scoll Momaday and Adrian C Louis, respectively. In all cases, both novels represent the problems of cultural conflict encountered by the Indian people when they lived between two cultures, traditional and modem ones. This emerges in the writers' portrayals of their Indian young generation characters as the result of the changing from traditional to modem life.
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Barrett A Carole. (ed).American Indian History Salem Press, Inc. 2003.
Crawford. Bartholow V; Alexander C. Kern, Morris H. Needleman. American Literature. New York: Bames and Noble, Inc., 1966.
Guerin, Wtlfml L. (ed). A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. Oxford University Press., 1999.
Debo, Angie. A History of the Indians of the United States. the University of Oklahoma Press. 1970.
Harrison, Lawrence E and Samuel P. Huntington (eels). Culture Maners: How Values ShapeHumanProgress. The Perseus Books Group. USA., 2000.
Hirscheelder, Arlene (ed). Native Americans (A History in Picture). New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc. 2000.
Hoxie, Fredereick E. Encyclopedia of American Indian. The University of Oklahoma Press, U.S.A. 1996.
Hughes, J. Donald American Indian Ecology. The University of Texas at EI Paso: Texas Western Press, 1983.
Leahy, Todd Historical Dictionary of Native American Movements. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2008.
Louis, Adrian C. Wild Indian & Other Creatures. Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1996.
Kitano. H.L. Harry. Race Relations. Prentice Hall, Inc. New Jersey. 1985.
Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper Collins Publisher, Inc., 1999.
Ross, Marc Howard. Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Velie, Alan R. American Indian Literature: An Anthology. University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Weinstein, Allen and David Rubel. The Story of America. Freedom and Crisis from Settlement to Superpower. DK Publishing, Inc. New York, 2002.
Wilkins, David E .. American Indian Politics and the American Political System. USA: Rowman and Little field Publisher, Inc., 2002.
www.usinfo.state.gov. Adrian C. Louis, in Stories of Adrian Auntie Angie's Cheyenne Affair. In http://www.englisb.uiuc.edu/maps/ poets/gl/louis/stories.html.2008.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24167/celt.v8i2.310
Copyright (c)
| pISSN (print): 1412-3320 | eISSN (online): 2502-4914 |