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Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Margaret Bedrosian
Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Margaret Bedrosian
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Brito's article draws a necessary contrast between the purpose and function of American Indian chants, and the American Indian's descent into modern poetry. The latter is an idiom that can only voice anger and frustration: it symbolizes a spirit imprisoned, forced to protest through a borrowed medium because it seems to be the only one that the western mind can understand.
Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Juanita Palmerhall
Critique [Of Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry By Silvester J. Brito], Juanita Palmerhall
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
The author of "Change in American Indian World Views ..." is not only a teacher and student of poetry, but is also a poet who writes about his heritage. It is appropriate that he chose to compare traditional songs and the contemporary pleas of American Indians. A poet can be and is described as "one who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical." Poetry is the art or work of a poet. If we follow these views of poet and poetry, then we would have to place both of the categories of which the …
Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry, Silvester J. Brito
Change In American Indian World Views Illustrated By Oral Narratives And Contemporary Poetry, Silvester J. Brito
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Unlike other ethnic groups, American Indians had little to celebrate during the bicentennial year in 1976. Other ethnic groups, with the exception of blacks and Mexican Americans, came to America to find a better way of life.[1] In contrast, few American Indians have left this country in search of a better life elsewhere. Hence, being an oppressed minority in a society governed by Western thought and values, Indians can only lament the loss of their rights to live and govern their lives according to particular religious, cultural, and social values, for they have been forced to change world views and …