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Social Scientists and American Indian Autobiographers: Sun Chief and Gregorio's “Life Story”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

H. David Brumble III
H. David Brumble III
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H. David Brumble III is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260. See the Bibliographical Note (pp. 288–89) for a complete list of the Indian autobiographies mentioned in this article.
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Social scientists collected many, many American Indian autobiographies during the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s, autobiographies of Apaches, Navajos, Hopis, Zunis, Papagos, Kiowas, Sioux, a Kwakiutl, autobiographies of shamans, shepherds, hunters, farmers, men, and women. Many of these are now moldering in the dark reaches of forgotten file cabinets, but a remarkable number were published, and for this we must be grateful. These narratives are to us a legacy, affording us some sense of what it means to see the world and the self according to ancient habits of mind.

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Journal of American Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , August 1986 , pp. 273 - 289
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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Bibliographical Note

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